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Curl and libcurl 7.16.2
Public curl release number: 98
Releases counted from the very beginning: 125
Available command line options: 117
Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 141
Number of public functions in libcurl: 54
Amount of public web site mirrors: 38
Number of known libcurl bindings: 35
Number of contributors: 539
This release includes the following changes:
o added CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS
o added CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING, CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING and
--raw
o added support for using the NSS library for TLS/SSL
o changed default anonymous FTP password
o changed the CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC option to handle active and passive
CCC shutdown
o added the --ftp-ssl-ccc-mode command line option
o includes VC8 Makefiles in the release archive
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o in testsuite, update test cookies expiration from 2007-Feb-1 to year 2035
o socks5 works
o builds fine with VC2005
o CURLOPT_RANGE set to NULL resets the range for FTP
o curl_multi_remove_handle() rare crash
o passive FTP transfers work with SOCKS
o multi interface HTTPS connection re-use memory leak
o libcurl.m4's --with-libcurl is improved
o curl-config --libs and libcurl.pc no longer list unnecessary dependencies
o fixed an issue with CCC not working on some servers
o several HTTP pipelining problems
o HTTP CONNECT thru a proxy is now less blocking when the multi interface is
used
o HTTP Digest header parsing fix for unquoted last word ending with CRLF
o CURLOPT_PORT, HTTP proxy, re-using connections and non-HTTP protocols
This release includes the following known bugs:
o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)
Other curl-related news:
o
New curl mirrors:
o http://curl.basemirror.de is a new mirror in Germany
o http://curl.xxtracker.org is a new mirror in The Netherlands
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
Yang Tse, Manfred Schwarb, Michael Wallner, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Shmulik Regev,
Rob Crittenden, Robert A. Monat, Dan Fandrich, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett,
Michal Marek, Robson Braga Araujo, Ian Turner, Linus Nielsen Feltzing,
Ravi Pratap, Adam D. Moss, Jose Kahan, Hang Kin Lau, Justin Fletcher
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)