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Curl and libcurl 7.57.0
Public curl releases: 171
Command line options: 211
curl_easy_setopt() options: 249
Public functions in libcurl: 74
Contributors: 1626
This release includes the following changes:
o auth: add support for RFC7616 - HTTP Digest access authentication [12]
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o curl_mime_filedata.3: fix typos [1]
o libtest: Add required test libraries for lib1552 and lib1553 [2]
o fix time diffs for systems using unsigned time_t [3]
o ftplistparser: memory leak fix: free temporary memory always [4]
o multi: allow table handle sizes to be overridden [5]
o wildcards: don't use with non-supported protocols [6]
o curl_fnmatch: return error on illegal wildcard pattern [7]
o transfer: Fix chunked-encoding upload too early exit [8]
o curl_setup: Improve detection of CURL_WINDOWS_APP [9]
o resolvers: only include anything if needed [10]
o setopt: fix CURLOPT_SSH_AUTH_TYPES option read
o appveyor: add a win32 build
o Curl_timeleft: change return type to timediff_t [11]
o cmake: Export libcurl and curl targets to use by other cmake projects [13]
o curl: in -F option arg, comma is a delimiter for files only [14]
o curl: improved ";type=" handling in -F option arguments
o timeval: use mach_absolute_time() on MacOS [15]
o curlx: the timeval functions are no longer provided as curlx_* [16]
o mkhelp.pl: do not generate comment with current date [17]
o memdebug: use send/recv signature for curl_dosend/curl_dorecv [18]
o cookie: avoid NULL dereference [19]
o url: fix CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE arg value check to allow -1 [20]
o include: remove conncache.h inclusion from where its not needed
o CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS: allow -1 as a value [21]
o tests: Fixed torture tests on tests 556 and 650
o http2: Fixed OOM handling in upgrade request
o url: fix CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT arg value check to allow -1
o CURLOPT_INFILESIZE: accept -1 [22]
o curl: pass through [] in URLs instead of calling globbing error [23]
o curl: speed up handling of many URLs [24]
This release includes the following known bugs:
o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (https://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
Alessandro Ghedini, Andrew Lambert, arainchik on github, cbartl on github,
Dan Fandrich, Daniel Bankhead, Daniel Stenberg, Dmitri Tikhonov, Gisle Vanem,
Jakub Zakrzewski, Juro Bystricky, Marcel Raad, Martin Storsjo, Max Dymond,
moohoorama on github, omau on github, Patrick Monnerat, Paul Howarth,
Pavel Gushchin, Per Lundberg, Peter Piekarski, Petr Voytsik, Ray Satiro,
Rob Cotrone,
(24 contributors)
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
References to bug reports and discussions on issues:
[1] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2008
[2] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2006
[3] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2004
[4] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2013
[5] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1982
[6] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2016
[7] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2015
[8] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2001
[9] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2025
[10] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2023
[11] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2021
[12] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1934
[13] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1879
[14] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2022
[15] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2033
[16] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2034
[17] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2026
[18] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2031
[19] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2032
[20] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-11/0000.html
[21] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2038
[22] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2047
[23] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2044
[24] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1959