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Daniel Stenberg 503557e5ce Peter O'Gorman fixed libcurl to not init GnuTLS as early as we did before,
since it then inits libgcrypt and libgcrypt is being evil and EXITS the
application if it fails to get a fine random seed. That's really not a nice
thing to do by a library.
2007-04-28 21:01:30 +00:00

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Curl and libcurl 7.16.3
Public curl release number: 99
Releases counted from the very beginning: 126
Available command line options: 118
Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 141
Number of public functions in libcurl: 54
Amount of public web site mirrors: 39
Number of known libcurl bindings: 35
Number of contributors: 554
This release includes the following changes:
o added curl_multi_socket_action()
o deprecated curl_multi_socket()
o uses less memory in non-pipelined use cases
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o if2up too long interface name memory leak
o test case 534 started to fail 2007-04-13 due to the existance of a
new host on the net with the same silly domain the test was using
for a host which was supposed not to exist.
o test suite SSL certificate works better with newer stunnel
o internal progress meter update frequency back to once per second
o avoid some unnecessary calls to function gettimeofday
o a double-free in the SSL-layer
o GnuTLS free of NULL credentials
o NSS-fix for closing down SSL
o bad warning from configure when gnutls was selected
o compilation on VMS 64-bit mode
o SCP/SFTP downloads could hang on the last bytes of a transfer
o curl_easy_duphandle() crash
o curl -V / curl_verion*() works even when GnuTLS is used on a system without
a good random source
This release includes the following known bugs:
o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)
Other curl-related news:
o PycURL 7.16.2.1 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net/
o TclCurl 7.16.2 was released:
http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
New curl mirrors:
o http://curl.spegulo.be is a new mirror in Belgium
o http://curl.piotrkosoft.net is a new mirror in Poland
o http://curl.smudge-it.net is a new mirror in St Louis, MO, USA
o http://curl.askapache.com is a new mirror in Indiana, USA
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
Song Ma, Dan Fandrich, Yang Tse, Jay Austin, Robert Iakobashvil,
James Housley, Daniel Black, Steve Little, Sonia Subramanian, Peter O'Gorman,
Frank Hempel
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)