curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.12.1

 Public curl release number:               82
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 109
 Available command line options:           96
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     120
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    36
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        12
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         26

This release includes the following changes:

 o the version string now only contains info about (sub) package versions,
   while for example krb4 and ipv6 now only are available as 'features'
 o added curl_easy_reset()
 o socks proxy support even when libcurl is built ipv6-enabled
 o read callbacks can stop the transfer by returning CURL_READFUNC_ABORT
 o libcurl-tutorial.3 is the new man page formerly known as libcurl-the-guide
 o additional SSL trace data might be sent to the debug callback using two new
   types: CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_IN and CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_OUT
 o multipart formposts can upload files larger than system memory
 o the curl tool continues with the next URL even if one transfer fails
 o FTP 3rd party transfer support - seven new setopt() options

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o fixed a krb4 link problem
 o HTTP Negotiate service name now provided in uppercase
 o no longer accepts any cookies with domain set to just a TLD
 o HTTP Digest fix for properties without quotes in the header
 o a bad Host: header case on re-used connections over proxy was fixed
 o a duplicate Host: header case on re-used connections was fixed
 o curl -o name#[num] now works when no globbing for [num] exists
 o the test suite runs fine with valgrind 2.1.x
 o negative Content-Length is now ignored
 o test 505 runs fine on windows now
 o curl_share_cleanup() crash fixed
 o --trace files now get the final info lines too
 o multi interface connects fine to multi-IP resolving hosts
 o --limit-rate works on Mac OS X (and other systems with bad poll()s)
 o cookies can now hold 4999 bytes of content
 o HTTP POST/PUT with NTLM/Digest/Negotiate to a URL returning 3XX
 o HTTPS POST/PUT over a proxy requiring NTLM/Digest/Negotiate works now
 o less restrictive libidn requirements, 0.4.1 or later is fine
 o fixed HTTP POST or PUT with Digest/Negotiate/NTLM selected but the server
   didn't require any authentication
 o win32 file:// transfer free memory bug
 o configure --disable-http builds a libcurl without HTTP support
 o CURLOPT_FILETIME had wrong type in curl.h, it expects a long argument
 o builds fine with Borland on Windows again
 o the msvc curllib.dsp now builds the libcurl.lib file again
 o builds fine on VMS again
 o builds fine on NetWare again
 o HTTP Digest authentication with proxies uses correct user name + password
 o now builds fine with lcc-win32

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o James Hu took over after Kevin Roth as maintainer of the curl package on
   cygwin. Many saludos to Kevin for a work well done during many years.
 o Gambas binding: http://gambas.sf.net
 o pycurl 7.12.0 was released http://pycurl.sf.net
 o wxWidgets binding: http://homepage.mac.com/codonnell/wxcurldav/
 o New Austrian curl web mirror: http://curl.gds.tuwien.ac.at
 o TclCurl 0.12.0 was released:
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
 o Ch binding: http://chcurl.sourceforge.net
 o New US curl web mirror: http://curl.109k.com
 o glib/GTK+ binding: http://atterer.net/glibcurl/
 o New French curl web mirror: http://curl.mirror.internet.tp

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

 Gisle Vanem, Vincent Bronner, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Chris Gaukroger,
 G<>nter Knauf, Marty Kuhrt, Kjetil Jacobsen, Steven Bazyl, Seshubabu Pasam,
 Luca Alteas, Jean-Louis Lemaire, David Byron, David Cohen, Rob Stanzel,
 Niels van Tongeren, Andr<64>s Garc<72>a, Toby Peterson, Casey O'Donnell, Brian
 Akins, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Joel Chen, Dylan Salisbury, Enrico Scholz

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