curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.25.0

 Public curl releases:         127
 Command line options:         151
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   199
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Known libcurl bindings:       39
 Contributors:                 929

This release includes the following changes:

 o configure: add option disable --libcurl output [1]
 o --ssl-allow-beast and CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS added [2]
 o Added CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE, CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPIDLE, CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPINTVL [4]
 o curl: use new library-side TCP_KEEPALIVE options [5]
 o Added a new CURLOPT_MAIL_AUTH option [13]
 o Added support for --mail-auth [14]
 o --libcurl now also works with -F and more! [15]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o --max-redirs: allow negative numbers as option value [3]
 o parse_proxy: bail out on zero-length proxy names [6]
 o configure: don't modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH for cross compiles [7]
 o curl_easy_reset: reset the referer string [8]
 o curl tool: don't abort glob-loop due to failures [9]
 o CONNECT: send correct Host: with IPv6 numerical address [10]
 o Explicitly link to the nettle/gcrypt libraries [11]
 o more resilient connection times among IP addresses [12]
 o winbuild: fix IPV6 and IDN options
 o SMTP: Fixed error when using CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY
 o cyassl: update to CyaSSL 2.0.x API
 o smtp: Fixed an issue with the EOB checking
 o pop3: Fixed drop of final CRLF in EOB checking [16]
 o smtp: Fixed an issue with writing postdata
 o smtp: Added support for returning SMTP response codes
 o CONNECT: fix ipv6 address in the Request-Line [17]
 o curl-config: only provide libraries with --libs
 o LWIP: don't consider HAVE_ERRNO_H to be winsock [19]
 o ssh: tunnel through HTTP proxy if requested
 o cookies: strip off [brackets] from numerical ipv6 host names [20]
 o libcurl docs: version corrections [18]
 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:

 Colin Hogben, Alessandro Ghedini, Kamil Dudka, Rob Ward, Dave Reisner,
 Martin Storsjo, Pierre Ynard, Pierre Joye, Yang Tse, Dan Fandrich,
 Michael Day, Juan Barreto, Chandrakant Bagul, Steve Holme, Todd Ouska,
 Rich Gray, John Joseph Bachir, Armel Asselin, Andrei Cipu
 
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0009.html
 [2] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0001.html
 [3] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0098.html
 [4] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-01/0264.html
 [5] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-01/0263.html
 [6] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0000.html
 [7] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0052.html
 [8] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3481551
 [9] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3481223
 [10] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3482093
 [11] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-01/0303.html
 [12] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-01/0190.html
 [13] = http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTMAILAUTH
 [14] = http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--mail-auth
 [15] = http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--libcurl
 [16] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0051.html
 [17] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3493129
 [18] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3494091
 [19] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-03/0046.html
 [20] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-03/0036.html