curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.21.5

 Public curl releases:         121
 Command line options:         143
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   185
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Known libcurl bindings:       39
 Contributors:                 854

This release includes the following changes:

 o SOCKOPTFUNCTION: callback can say already-connected
 o Added --netrc-file
 o Added (new) support for cyassl

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o nss: avoid memory leak on SSL connection failure
 o nss: do not ignore failure of SSL handshake
 o multi: better failed connect handling when using FTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP
 o runtests.pl: fix pid number concatenation that prevented it from killing
   the correct process at times
 o PolarSSL: Return 0 on receiving TLS CLOSE_NOTIFY alert
 o curl_easy_setopt.3: Removed wrong reference to CURLOPT_USERPASSWORD
 o multi: close connection on timeout
 o IMAP in multi mode does SSL connections non-blocking
 o honours the --disable-ldaps configure option
 o Force setopt constants written by --libcurl to be long
 o ssh_connect: treat libssh2 return code better
 o SFTP upload could stall the state machine when the multi_socket API was
   used
 o SFTP and SCP could leak memory when used with the multi interface and 
   the connection was closed
 o Added missing file to repair the MSVC makefiles
 o Fixed detection of recvfrom arguments on Android/bionic
 o GSS: handle reuse fix
 o transfer: avoid insane conversion of time_t
 o nss: do not ignore value of CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER in certain cases
 o SMTP-multi: non-blocking connect
 o SFTP-multi: set cselect for sftp and scp to fix "stall" risk
 o configure: removed wrongly claimed default paths
 o pop3: fixed torture tests to succeed
 o symbols-in-versions: many corrections
 o if a HTTP request gets retried because the connection was dead, rewind if
   any data was sent as part of it
 o only probe for working ipv6 once and then re-use that info for further
   requests
 o requests that are asked to bound to a local interface/port will no longer
   wrongly re-use connections that aren't
 o libcurl.m4: Add missing quotes in AC_LINK_IFELSE
 o progress output: don't print the last update on a separate line

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:

 Mike Crowe, Kamil Dudka, Julien Chaffraix, Hoi-Ho Chan, Ben Noordhuis,
 Dan Fandrich, Henry Ludemann, Karl M, Manuel Massing, Marcus Sundberg,
 Stefan Krause, Todd A Ouska, Saqib Ali, Andre Guibert de Bruet,
 Tor Arntsen, Vincent Torri, Dave Reisner

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