curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.15.1

 Public curl release number:               91
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 118
 Available command line options:           109
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     125
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        27
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         32
 Number of contributors:                   459

This release includes the following changes:

 o the libcurl.pc pkgconfig file now gets installed on make install
 o URL globbing now offers "range steps": [1-100:10]
 o LDAPv3 is now the preferred LDAP protocol version
 o --max-redirs and CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS set to 0 limits redirects
 o improved MSVC makefile

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o buffer overflow problem: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20051207.html
 o using file:// on non-existing files are properly handled
 o builds fine on DJGPP
 o CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER is now always filled in on errors
 o curl outputs error on bad --limit-rate units
 o fixed libcurl's use of poll() on cygwin
 o the GnuTLS code didn't support client certificates
 o TFTP over IPv6 works
 o no reverse lookups on IP addresses when ipv6-enabled
 o SSPI compatibility fix: using the proper DLLs
 o binary LDAP properties are now shown base64 encoded
 o Windows uploads from stdin using curl can now contain ctrl-Z bytes
 o -r [num] would produce an invalid HTTP Range: header
 o multi interface with multi IP hosts could leak socket descriptors
 o the GnuTLS code didn't handle rehandshakes
 o re-use of a dead FTP connection
 o name resolve error codes fixed for Windows builds
 o double WWW-Authenticate Digest headers are now handled
 o curl-config --vernum fixed

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o FTP-SSL is now RFC4217
 o CurlPas 2005-11-05 was released: http://curlpas.sf.net/
 o pycurl 7.15.0 was released http://pycurl.sf.net
 o New web mirrors:
   http://curl.triplemind.com/ located in Mannheim, Germany
   http://curl.nedmirror.nl located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
   http://curl.hoxt.com located in Florida, US

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

 Dave Dribin, Bradford Bruce, Temprimus, Ofer, Dima Barsky, Amol Pattekar, Jaz
 Fresh, tommink[at]post.pl, Gisle Vanem, Nis Jorgensen, Vilmos Nebehaj, Dmitry
 Bartsevich, David Lang, Eugene Kotlyarov, Jan Kunder, Yang Tse, Quagmire,
 Albert Chin, David Shaw, Doug Kaufman, Bryan Henderson, Jamie Newton, Stefan
 Esser

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