1 Curl and libcurl 7.12.2
3 Public curl release number: 83
4 Releases counted from the very beginning: 110
5 Available command line options: 96
6 Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 121
7 Number of public functions in libcurl: 36
8 Amount of public web site mirrors: 12
9 Number of known libcurl bindings: 26
11 This release includes the following changes:
13 o provides error texts for IDN errors
14 o file upload parts in formposts now get their directory names cut off
15 o added CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO
16 o added CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH to allow ftp connects to attempt "AUTH TLS" instead
18 o curl_getdate() completely rewritten: may affect rare curl -z use cases
20 This release includes the following bugfixes:
22 o configure's gethostbyname check when both nsl and socket libs are required
23 o configure --with-libidn now checks the given path before defaults
24 o a race condition sometimes resulting in CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST in the
25 windows threaded name resolver code
26 o isspace() invokes with negative values in the cookie code
27 o a case of read-already-freed-data when CURLOPT_VERBOSE is used and a (very)
29 o now includes descriptive error messages for IDN errors
30 o more forgivning PASS response code check for better working with proftpd
31 o curl/multi.h works better included in winsock-using apps
32 o curl_easy_reset() no longer enables the progress meter
33 o build fix for SSL disabled curl with SSL Engine support present
34 o configure --with-ssl=PATH now ignores pkg-config path info
35 o CURLOPT_SSLENGINE can be set to NULL even if no engine support is available
36 o LDAP crash when more than one record was received
37 o connect failures properly stores an error message in the errorbuffer
38 o Rare Location:-following problem with bad original URL
39 o -F can now add Content-Type on non-file sections
40 o double Host: header when following Location: with replaced Host:
41 o curl_multi_add_handle() return code
42 o "Proxy-Connection: close" is now understood and properly dealt with
43 o curl_getdate() crash
44 o downloading empty files now calls the write callback properly
45 o no reverse DNS lookups for ip-only addresses with ipv6-enabled libcurl
46 o libcurl works better multi-threaded on AIX (when built with xlc)
47 o cookies over proxy didn't match the path properly
48 o MSVC makefile fixes to build better
49 o FTP response 530 on 'PASS' now sends back a better error message
51 Other curl-related news since the previous public release:
53 o AdacURL version 7.12.1 http://www.almroth.com/adacurl/index.html
54 o pycurl version 7.12.1 http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
55 o tclcurl version 0.12.1
56 http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
58 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
59 advice from friends like these:
61 Casey O'Donnell, Roland Krikava, Alex, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Kjetil
62 Jacobsen, Ling Thio, Roman Koifman, Harshal Pradhan, Jonas Forsman, David
63 Tarendash, Daniel at touchtunes, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Andreas Rieke,
64 Jean-Claude Chauve, Dan Fandrich, Peter Sylvester, "Mekonikum", Jean-Philippe
65 Barrette-LaPierre, Günter Knauf, Larry Campbell, Fedor Karpelevitch,
66 Aleksandar Milivojevic, Gisle Vanem, Chris "Bob Bob"
68 Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)