Curl and libcurl 7.12.2 Public curl release number: 83 Releases counted from the very beginning: 110 Available command line options: 96 Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 121 Number of public functions in libcurl: 36 Amount of public web site mirrors: 12 Number of known libcurl bindings: 26 This release includes the following changes: o file upload parts in formposts now get their directory names cut off o added CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO o added CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH to allow ftp connects to attempt "AUTH TLS" instead before "AUTH SSL" o curl_getdate() completely rewritten: may affect rare curl -z use cases This release includes the following bugfixes: o a race condition sometimes resulting in CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST in the windows threaded name resolver code o isspace() invokes with negative values in the cookie code o a case of read-already-freed-data when CURLOPT_VERBOSE is used and a (very) persistent connection o now includes descriptive error messages for IDN errors o more forgivning PASS response code check for better working with proftpd o curl/multi.h works better included in winsock-using apps o curl_easy_reset() no longer enables the progress meter o build fix for SSL disabled curl with SSL Engine support present o configure --with-ssl=PATH now ignores pkg-config path info o CURLOPT_SSLENGINE can be set to NULL even if no engine support is available o LDAP crash when more than one record was received o connect failures properly stores an error message in the errorbuffer o Rare Location:-following problem with bad original URL o -F can now add Content-Type on non-file sections o double Host: header when following Location: with replaced Host: o curl_multi_add_handle() return code o "Proxy-Connection: close" is now understood and properly dealt with o curl_getdate() crash o downloading empty files now calls the write callback properly o no reverse DNS lookups for ip-only addresses with ipv6-enabled libcurl o libcurl works better multi-threaded on AIX (when built with xlc) o cookies over proxy didn't match the path properly o MSVC makefile fixes to build better o FTP response 530 on 'PASS' now sends back a better error message Other curl-related news since the previous public release: o AdacURL version 7.12.1 http://www.almroth.com/adacurl/index.html o pycurl version 7.12.1 http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ o tclcurl version 0.12.1 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: Casey O'Donnell, Roland Krikava, Alex, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Kjetil Jacobsen, Ling Thio, Roman Koifman, Harshal Pradhan, Jonas Forsman, David Tarendash, Daniel at touchtunes, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Andreas Rieke, Jean-Claude Chauve, Dan Fandrich, Peter Sylvester, "Mekonikum", Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre, Günter Knauf, Larry Campbell, Fedor Karpelevitch, Aleksandar Milivojevic, Gisle Vanem, Chris "Bob Bob" Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)