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Dan Fandrich 41ba7666f0 Kristian Gunstone fixed a problem where overwriting an uploaded file with
sftp didn't truncate it first, which would corrupt the file if the new
file was shorter than the old.
2007-05-09 18:24:27 +00:00

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Curl and libcurl 7.16.3
Public curl release number: 99
Releases counted from the very beginning: 126
Available command line options: 118
Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 141
Number of public functions in libcurl: 54
Amount of public web site mirrors: 39
Number of known libcurl bindings: 35
Number of contributors: 554
This release includes the following changes:
o added curl_multi_socket_action()
o deprecated curl_multi_socket()
o uses less memory in non-pipelined use cases
o CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES matched transfers assume HTTP 1.0 compliance
o more than one test harness can run at the same time without conflict
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o if2up too long interface name memory leak
o test case 534 started to fail 2007-04-13 due to the existance of a
new host on the net with the same silly domain the test was using
for a host which was supposed not to exist.
o test suite SSL certificate works better with newer stunnel
o internal progress meter update frequency back to once per second
o avoid some unnecessary calls to function gettimeofday
o a double-free in the SSL-layer
o GnuTLS free of NULL credentials
o NSS-fix for closing down SSL
o bad warning from configure when gnutls was selected
o compilation on VMS 64-bit mode
o SCP/SFTP downloads could hang on the last bytes of a transfer
o curl_easy_duphandle() crash
o curl -V / curl_version*() works even when GnuTLS is used on a system without
a good random source
o curl_multi_socket() not "noticing" newly added handles
o lack of Content-Length and chunked encoding now requires HTTP 1.1 as well
to be treated as without response body
o connection cache growth in multi handles
o better handling of out of memory conditions
o overwriting an uploaded file with sftp now truncates it first
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 7.16.2.1 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net/
o TclCurl 7.16.2 was released:
http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
New curl mirrors:
o http://curl.spegulo.be is a new mirror in Belgium
o http://curl.piotrkosoft.net is a new mirror in Poland
o http://curl.smudge-it.net is a new mirror in St Louis, MO, USA
o http://curl.askapache.com is a new mirror in Indiana, USA
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
Song Ma, Dan Fandrich, Yang Tse, Jay Austin, Robert Iakobashvil,
James Housley, Daniel Black, Steve Little, Sonia Subramanian, Peter O'Gorman,
Frank Hempel, Michael Wallner, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Tobias Rundstr<74>m,
Anders Gustafsson, James Bursa, Kristian Gunstone
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)