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Curl and libcurl 7.17.0
Public curl release number: 101
Releases counted from the very beginning: 127
Available command line options: 118
Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 143
Number of public functions in libcurl: 55
Amount of public web site mirrors: 41
Number of known libcurl bindings: 35
Number of contributors: 572
This release includes the following changes:
o support for OS/400 Secure Sockets Layer library
o curl_easy_setopt() now allocates strings passed to it
o SCP and SFTP support now requires libssh2 0.16 or later
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o test cases 31, 46, 61, 506, 517 now work in time zones that use leap seconds
o problem with closed proxy connection during HTTP CONNECT auth negotiation
o transfer-encoding skipping didn't ignore the 407 response bodies properly
o CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1
o CONNECT endless loop
o krb5 support builds with Heimdal
o added returned error string for connection refused case
o re-use of dead FTP control connections
o login to FTP servers that don't require (nor understand) PASS after the
USER command
o bad free of memory from libssh2
o the SFTP PWD command works
o HTTP Digest auth on a re-used connection
o FTPS data connection close
o AIX 4 and 5 get to use non-blocking sockets
o small POST with NTLM
o resumed file:// transfers
o CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE are 64 bit "clean"
o memory leak when handling compressed data streams from broken servers
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 7.16.4 was released http://pycurl.sf.net
o TclCurl 7.16.4 was released
http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
New curl mirrors:
o http://curl.freeby.pctools.cl is a new mirror in Santiago, Chile
o http://curl.site2nd.org is a new mirror in Dallas, Texas, USA
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
Dan Fandrich, Song Ma, Daniel Black, Giancarlo Formicuccia, Shmulik Regev,
Daniel Cater, Colin Hogben, Jofell Gallardo, Daniel Johnson,
Ralf S. Engelschall, James Housley, Chris Flerackers, Patrick Monnerat,
Jayesh A Shah, Greg Zavertnik, Peter O'Gorman, Greg Morse, Dmitriy Sergeyev,
Scott Cantor
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)