curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.15.2

 Public curl release number:               92
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 119
 Available command line options:           109
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     125
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        28
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         32
 Number of contributors:                   474

This release includes the following changes:

 o Gopher is now officially abandoned as a protocol (lib)curl tries to support.
 o curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() are now using a refcount so
   that it is now legal to call them multiple times. See updated info for
   details.

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o -P [hostname] with ipv6-disabled curl
 o libcurl.m4 was updated
 o configure no longer warns if the current path contains a space
 o test suite kill race condition
 o FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP and FTP_USE_EPSV when doing FTP over HTTP proxy
 o Doing a second request with FTP on the same bath path, would make libcurl
   confuse what current working directory it had
 o FTP over HTTP proxy now sends the second CONNECT properly
 o numerous compiler warnings and build quirks for various compilers have
   been addressed
 o supports name and passwords up to 255 bytes long, embedded in URLs
 o the HTTP_ONLY define disables the TFTP support

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o http://curl.hkmirror.org/ is a new curl web mirror in Hong Kong
 o http://curl.storemypix.com/ is a new curl web mirror in Germany
 o http://curl.s-lines.net/ is a new curl web mirror in Japan
 o TclCurl 0.15.1 was released:
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/

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

 Dov Murik, Jean Jacques Drouin, Andres Garcia, Yang Tse, Gisle Vanem, Dan
 Fandrich, Alexander Lazic, Michael Jahn, Andrew Benham, Bryan Henderson,
 David Shaw, Jon Turner
 
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
start working on 7.15.2 2005-12-06 18:36:36 -05:00			`Curl and libcurl 7.15.2`
working draft of the upcoming 7.10.8 release notes 2003-09-22 17:38:52 -04:00
start working on 7.15.2 2005-12-06 18:36:36 -05:00			`Public curl release number: 92`
			`Releases counted from the very beginning: 119`
mention the recent improvements 2005-09-04 18:10:03 -04:00			`Available command line options: 109`
Bradford Bruce made the windows resolver code properly return CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_PROXY and CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST on resolving errors (as documented). 2005-10-21 15:21:19 -04:00			`Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 125`
with all external functions marked with CURL_EXTERN it is easy to count them and... yes, they are 46! 2004-11-09 09:42:04 -05:00			`Number of public functions in libcurl: 46`
one more mirror, now fortunately in Japan 2006-01-08 18:28:33 -05:00			`Amount of public web site mirrors: 28`
recent changes 2005-09-16 17:03:26 -04:00			`Number of known libcurl bindings: 32`
start working on 7.15.2 2005-12-06 18:36:36 -05:00			`Number of contributors: 474`
David Hull made the file: URL parser also accept the somewhat sloppy file syntax: file:/path. I added test case 203 to verify this. 2003-10-29 04:53:21 -05:00
working draft of the upcoming 7.10.8 release notes 2003-09-22 17:38:52 -04:00			`This release includes the following changes:`
Adrian Schuur added trailer support in the chunked encoding stream. The trailer is then sent to the normal header callback/stream. 2005-07-12 14:15:34 -04:00
David Shaw finally removed all traces of Gopher and we are now officially not supporting it. It hasn't been functioning for years anyway, so this is just finally stating what already was true. And a cleanup at the same time. 2006-01-16 17:14:37 -05:00			`o Gopher is now officially abandoned as a protocol (lib)curl tries to support.`
Bryan Henderson turned the 'initialized' variable for curl_global_init() into a counter, and thus you can now do multiple curl_global_init() and you are then supposed to do the same amount of calls to curl_global_cleanup(). Bryan also updated the docs accordingly. 2006-01-15 18:55:53 -05:00			`o curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() are now using a refcount so`
			`that it is now legal to call them multiple times. See updated info for`
			`details.`
working draft of the upcoming 7.10.8 release notes 2003-09-22 17:38:52 -04:00
			`This release includes the following bugfixes:`

Jon Turner pointed out that doing -P [hostname] with curl (built ipv4-only) didn't work. 2006-01-19 17:02:46 -05:00			`o -P [hostname] with ipv6-disabled curl`
reality sync 2006-01-18 07:17:20 -05:00			`o libcurl.m4 was updated`
configure no longer warns on "missing" if the current path contains a space 2006-01-18 05:00:36 -05:00			`o configure no longer warns if the current path contains a space`
Andrew Benham fixed a race condition in the test suite that could cause the test script to kill all processes in the current process group! 2006-01-13 07:16:16 -05:00			`o test suite kill race condition`
Fixed FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP and FTP_USE_EPSV to "do right" when used on FTP thru HTTP proxy. 2006-01-12 17:18:38 -05:00			`o FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP and FTP_USE_EPSV when doing FTP over HTTP proxy`
When using a bad path over FTP, as in when libcurl couldn't CWD into all given subdirs, libcurl would still "remember" the full path as if it is the current directory libcurl is in so that the next curl_easy_perform() would get really confused if it tried the same path again - as it would not issue any CWD commands at all, assuming it is already in the "proper" dir. Starting now, a failed CWD command sets a flag that prevents the path to be "remembered" after returning. 2006-01-10 18:03:22 -05:00			`o Doing a second request with FTP on the same bath path, would make libcurl`
			`confuse what current working directory it had`
Mike Jean fixed so that the second CONNECT when doing FTP over a HTTP proxy actually used a new connection and not sent the second request on the first socket! 2006-01-07 17:24:16 -05:00			`o FTP over HTTP proxy now sends the second CONNECT properly`
not much recent stuff, but still I had this modified locally 2006-01-04 05:04:23 -05:00			`o numerous compiler warnings and build quirks for various compilers have`
			`been addressed`
Jean Jacques Drouin pointed out that you could only have a user name or password of 127 bytes or less embedded in a URL, where actually the code uses a 255 byte buffer for it! Modified now to use the full buffer size. 2005-12-16 09:52:16 -05:00			`o supports name and passwords up to 255 bytes long, embedded in URLs`
			`o the HTTP_ONLY define disables the TFTP support`
working draft of the upcoming 7.10.8 release notes 2003-09-22 17:38:52 -04:00
			`Other curl-related news since the previous public release:`

Jean Jacques Drouin pointed out that you could only have a user name or password of 127 bytes or less embedded in a URL, where actually the code uses a 255 byte buffer for it! Modified now to use the full buffer size. 2005-12-16 09:52:16 -05:00			`o http://curl.hkmirror.org/ is a new curl web mirror in Hong Kong`
not much recent stuff, but still I had this modified locally 2006-01-04 05:04:23 -05:00			`o http://curl.storemypix.com/ is a new curl web mirror in Germany`
one more mirror, now fortunately in Japan 2006-01-08 18:28:33 -05:00			`o http://curl.s-lines.net/ is a new curl web mirror in Japan`
Fixed FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP and FTP_USE_EPSV to "do right" when used on FTP thru HTTP proxy. 2006-01-12 17:18:38 -05:00			`o TclCurl 0.15.1 was released:`
			`http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/`
working draft of the upcoming 7.10.8 release notes 2003-09-22 17:38:52 -04:00
			`This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and`
			`advice from friends like these:`

not much recent stuff, but still I had this modified locally 2006-01-04 05:04:23 -05:00			`Dov Murik, Jean Jacques Drouin, Andres Garcia, Yang Tse, Gisle Vanem, Dan`
David Shaw finally removed all traces of Gopher and we are now officially not supporting it. It hasn't been functioning for years anyway, so this is just finally stating what already was true. And a cleanup at the same time. 2006-01-16 17:14:37 -05:00			`Fandrich, Alexander Lazic, Michael Jahn, Andrew Benham, Bryan Henderson,`
Jon Turner pointed out that doing -P [hostname] with curl (built ipv4-only) didn't work. 2006-01-19 17:02:46 -05:00			`David Shaw, Jon Turner`
start working on 7.15.2 2005-12-06 18:36:36 -05:00
working draft of the upcoming 7.10.8 release notes 2003-09-22 17:38:52 -04:00			`Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)`