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:           112
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     129
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        31
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         32
 Number of contributors:                   474

This release includes the following changes:

 o Support for SOCKS4 proxies (added --socks4)
 o CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY and CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET added
 o CURLOPT_LOCALPORT and CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE (--local-port) added
 o Dropped support for the LPRT ftp command
 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 multi-pass authentication and compressed content
 o minor format string mistake in the GSS/Negotiate code
 o cached DNS entries could remain in the cache too long
 o improved GnuTLS check in configure
 o re-used FTP connections when the second request didn't do a transfer
 o plain --limit-rate [num] means bytes
 o re-creating a dead connection is no longer counted internally as a followed
   redirect and thus prevents a weird error that would occur if a FTP
   connection died on an attempted re-use
 o Try PASV after failing to connect to the port the EPSV response contained
 o -P [IP] with non-local address with ipv6-enabled curl
 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://curlm.haxx.se/ is new service that automatically redirects you to a
   curl web mirror that is close to you!

 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 http://curl.oss-mirror.org/ is a new curl web mirror in Ireland
 o http://curl.linux-mirror.org/ is a new curl web mirror in Germany
 o pycurl 7.15.1 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net/
 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, Duane Cathey, Michal Marek, Philippe Vaucher, Kent
 Boortz, Karl Moerder, Shmulik Regev, Ulf H<>rnhammar, Peter Su
 
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)