curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.12.3

 Public curl release number:               84
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 111
 Available command line options:           100
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     123
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        13
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         29

This release includes the following changes:

 o new configure options: --disable-cookies, --disable-crypto-auth and
   --disable-verbose
 o persistent ftp request improvements
 o CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION and CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA added. If your app uses HTTP
   Digest, NTLM or Negotiate authentication, you will most likely want to use
   these
 o -w time_redirect and num_redirects
 o no longer uses libcurl.def for building on Windows, OS/2 and Netware
 o builds on Windows CE
 o request retrying, --retry and family added
 o FTP 3rd party transfers with source and dest on the same host now works
 o added CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o URLs with username and IPv6 numerical addresses
 o configure works better with SSL libs in a "non-standard ld.so dir"
 o curl-config --vernum zero prefixed
 o bad memory access in the NTLM code
 o EPSV on multi-homed servers now works correctly
 o chunked-encoded transfers could get closed pre-maturely without error
 o proxy CONNECT now default timeouts after 3600 seconds
 o --disable-epsv and --disable-eprt are ignored when connecting to an IPv6 ftp
   server
 o no more extra progress meter newline output after each Location: followed
 o HTTP PUT/POST with Digest, NTLM or Negotiate no longer uses HEAD
 o now gracefully bails out when exceeding FD_SETSIZE file descriptors
 o CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME works
 o building with gssapi libs and hdeaders in the default dirs
 o curl_getdate() parsing of dates later than year 2037 with 32 bit time_t
 o curl -v when stderr is closed wrote debug messages to the network socket
 o build failure with libidn 0.3.X or older
 o huge POSTs on VMS
 o configure no longer uses pkg-config on cross-compiles
 o potential gzip decompress memory leak
 o "-C - --fail" on a HTTP page already downloaded
 o formposting a zero byte file
 o use setlocale() for better IDN functionality by default

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o pycurl 7.12.2: http://pycurl.sf.net/
 o TclCurl 0.12.2: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
 o libcurl.NET 1.2: http://www.seasideresearch.com/downloads.html
 o RCurl 0.5.1: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/
 o libcurl.mono 1.0:
   http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?libcurl-mono

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

 Peter Wullinger, Guillaume Arluison, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Mohun Biswas,
 Tomas Pospisek, Gisle Vanem, Dan Fandrich, Paul Nolan, Andres Garcia,
 Tim Sneddon, Ian Gulliver, Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre, Jeff Phillips,
 Wojciech Zwiefka, David Phillips, Reinout van Schouwen, Maurice Barnum,
 Richard Atterer, Rene Bernhardt, Matt Veenstra, Bryan Henderson, Ton Voon,
 Kai Sommerfeld, David Byron

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