curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.41.0

 Public curl releases:         144
 Command line options:         163
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   209
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Contributors:                 1233

This release includes the following changes:

 o NetWare build: added TLS-SRP enabled build
 o winbuild: Added option to build with c-ares
 o Added --cert-status [9]
 o Added CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS [10]
 o sasl: implement EXTERNAL authentication mechanism

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o sasl_gssapi: Fixed build on NetBSD with built-in GSS-API [1]
 o FTP: fix IPv6 host using link-local address [2]
 o FTP: if EPSV fails on IPV6 connections, bail out
 o gssapi: Remove need for duplicated GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE definitions
 o NSS: fix compiler error when built http2-enabled
 o mingw build: allow to pass custom CFLAGS [3]
 o add -m64 CFLAGS when targeting mingw64, add -m32/-m64 to LDFLAGS [4]
 o curl_schannel.c: mark session as removed from cache if not freed [5]
 o Curl_pretransfer: reset expected transfer sizes [6]
 o curl.h: remove extra space [7]
 o curl_endian: Fixed build when 64-bit integers are not supported [8]
 o checksrc.bat: Better detection of Perl installation
 o build-openssl.bat: Added check for Perl installation
 o http_negotiate: Return CURLcode in Curl_input_negotiate() instead of int
 o http_negotiate: Added empty decoded challenge message info text
 o vtls: Removed unimplemented overrides of curlssl_close_all()
 o sasl_gssapi: Fixed memory leak with local SPN variable
 o http_negotiate: Use dynamic buffer for SPN generation
 o ldap: Renamed the CURL_LDAP_WIN definition to USE_WIN32_LDAP
 o openssl: do public key pinning check independently [11]
 o timeval: typecast for better type (on Amiga)
 o ipv6: enclose AF_INET6 uses with proper #ifdefs for ipv6
 o SASL: common URL option and auth capabilities decoders for all protocols
 o BoringSSL: fix build
 o BoringSSL: detected by configure, switches off NTLM
 o openvms: Handle openssl/0.8.9zb version parsing
 o configure: detect libresssl
 o configure: remove detection of the old yassl emulation API
 o curl_setup: Disable SMB/CIFS support when HTTP only
 o imap: remove automatic password setting: it breaks external sasl authentication
 o sasl: remove XOAUTH2 from default enabled authentication mechanism
 o runtests: identify BoringSSL and libressl
 o security: avoid compiler warning
 o ldap: build with BoringSSL
 o des: Added Curl_des_set_odd_parity()
 o CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION.3: also when server closes a connection
 o CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION.3: CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_0 added in 7.33.0
 o build: Removed unused Visual Studio bscmake settings
 o build: Enabled DEBUGBUILD in Visual Studio debug builds
 o build: Renamed top level Visual Studio solution files
 o build: Removed Visual Studio SuppressStartupBanner directive for VC8+
 o libcurl-symbols: first basic shot for autogenerated docs
 o Makefile.am: fix 'make distcheck'
 o getpass_r: read from stdin, not stdout! [12]
 o getpass: protect include with proper #ifdef
 o opts: CURLOPT_CAINFO availability depends on SSL engine
 o more cleanup of 'CURLcode result' return code 
 o MD4: replace implementation
 o MD5: replace implementation
 o openssl: SSL_SESSION->ssl_version no longer exist [13]
 o md5: use axTLS's own MD5 functions when available
 o schannel: Removed curl_ prefix from source files
 o curl.1: add warning when using -H and redirects
 o curl.1: clarify that -X is used for all requests
 o gskit: Fix exclusive SSLv3 option
 o polarssl: Fix exclusive SSL protocol version options [14]
 o http2: Fix bug that associated stream canceled on PUSH_PROMISE
 o ftp: accept all 2xx responses to the PORT command
 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:

  Alessandro Ghedini, Alexander Peslyak, Brad Spencer, Chris Young,
  Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, Gisle Vanem, Guenter Knauf, Jay Satiro,
  Jean-Francois Durand, Joe Mason, John E. Malmberg, Jon Seymour,
  Kyle J. McKay, Leith Bade, Marc Hoersken, Michael Kaufmann, Michael Wallner,
  Mohammad AlSaleh, Patrick Monnerat, Sam Schanken, Steve Holme, Tamir,
  Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, Thomas Klausner, Viktor Szakats, Vojtěch Král,
  Yun SangHo

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1469
 [2] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1468
 [3] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/136
 [4] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/134
 [5] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-01/0036.html
 [6] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-01/0065.html
 [7] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/137
 [8] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-01/0094.html
 [9] = http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--cert-status
 [10] = http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS.html
 [11] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1471
 [12] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1476
 [13] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-02/0034.html
 [14] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-01/0002.html