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Curl and libcurl 7.17.0
Public curl release number: 101
Releases counted from the very beginning: 127
Available command line options: 118
Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 143
Number of public functions in libcurl: 55
Amount of public web site mirrors: 42
Number of known libcurl bindings: 36
Number of contributors: 572
This release includes the following changes:
o support for OS/400 Secure Sockets Layer library
o curl_easy_setopt() now allocates strings passed to it
o SCP and SFTP support now requires libssh2 0.16 or later
o LDAP libraries are now linked "regularly" and not with dlopen
o HTTP transfers have the download size info "available" earlier
o FTP transfers have the download size info "available" earlier
o builds and runs on OS/400
o several error codes and options were marked as obsolete and subject to
future removal (set CURL_NO_OLDIES to see if your application is using them)
o SFTP errors can return more specific error codes
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o test cases 31, 46, 61, 506, 517 now work in time zones that use leap seconds
o problem with closed proxy connection during HTTP CONNECT auth negotiation
o transfer-encoding skipping didn't ignore the 407 response bodies properly
o CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1
o CONNECT endless loop
o krb5 support builds with Heimdal
o added returned error string for connection refused case
o re-use of dead FTP control connections
o login to FTP servers that don't require (nor understand) PASS after the
USER command
o bad free of memory from libssh2
o the SFTP PWD command works
o HTTP Digest auth on a re-used connection
o FTPS data connection close
o AIX 4 and 5 get to use non-blocking sockets
o small POST with NTLM
o resumed file:// transfers
o CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE are 64 bit
"clean"
o memory leak when handling compressed data streams from broken servers
o no NTLM unicode response
o resume HTTP PUT using Digest authentication
o FTP NOBODY requests on directories sent "SIZE (null)"
o FTP NOBODY request on file crash
o excessively long FTP server responses and response lines
o file:// upload then FTP:// upload crash
o TFTP error 0 is no longer treated as success
o uploading empty file over FTP on re-used connection
o superfluous CWD command on re-used FTP connections without subdirs used
This release includes the following known bugs:
o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)
Other curl-related news:
o pycurl 7.16.4 was released http://pycurl.sf.net
o TclCurl 7.16.4 was released
http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
o curlpp 0.7.1 was released
http://rrette.com/textpattern/index.php?s=cURLpp
o A brand new binding for SP-Forth was written by ygrek:
http://www.forth.org.ru/~ac/lib/lin/curl/
New curl mirrors:
o http://curl.freeby.pctools.cl is a new mirror in Santiago, Chile
o http://curl.site2nd.org is a new mirror in Dallas, Texas, USA
o http://curl.cheap.co.il is a new mirror in Tel-Aviv, Israel
o http://curl.digimirror.nl is a new mirror in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
Dan Fandrich, Song Ma, Daniel Black, Giancarlo Formicuccia, Shmulik Regev,
Daniel Cater, Colin Hogben, Jofell Gallardo, Daniel Johnson,
Ralf S. Engelschall, James Housley, Chris Flerackers, Patrick Monnerat,
Jayesh A Shah, Greg Zavertnik, Peter O'Gorman, Greg Morse, Dmitriy Sergeyev,
Scott Cantor, Allen Pulsifer, Andrew Wansink, Robson Braga Araujo,
Christian Vogt
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)