curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.24.0

 Public curl releases:         127
 Command line options:         149
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   192
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Known libcurl bindings:       39
 Contributors:                 907

This release includes the following changes:

 o CURLOPT_QUOTE: SFTP supports the '*'-prefix now
 o CURLOPT_DNS_SERVERS: set name servers if possible
 o Add support for using nettle instead of gcrypt as gnutls backend
 o 

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o SSL session share: move the age counter to the share object
 o -J -O: use -O name if no Content-Disposition header comes!
 o protocol_connect: show verbose connect and set connect time
 o query-part: ignore the URI part for given protocols
 o gnutls: only translate winsock errors for old versions
 o POP3: fix end of body detection
 o POP3: detect when LIST returns no mails
 o TELNET: improved treatment of options
 o configure: add support for pkg-config detection of libidn
 o CyaSSL 2.0+ library initialization adjustment
 o multi interface: only use non-NULL socker function pointer
 o call opensocket callback properly for active FTP
 o don't call close socket callback for sockets created with accept()
 o differentiate better between host/proxy errors
 o SSH: fix CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5 and --hostpubmd5
 o multi: handle timeouts on DNS servers by checking for new sockets
 o CURLOPT_DNS_SERVERS: fix return code
 o POP3: fixed escaped dot not being stripped out
 o 

This release includes the following known bugs:

 o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:

 Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon, Jason Glasgow, Jonas Schnelli, Mark Brand,
 Martin Storsjo, Yang Tse, Laurent Rabret, Jason Glasgow, Steve Holme,
 Reza Arbab, Jason Liu, Gokhan Sengun

        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)