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 --with-libidn now checks the given path before defaults
23 o a race condition sometimes resulting in CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST in the
24 windows threaded name resolver code
25 o isspace() invokes with negative values in the cookie code
26 o a case of read-already-freed-data when CURLOPT_VERBOSE is used and a (very)
28 o now includes descriptive error messages for IDN errors
29 o more forgivning PASS response code check for better working with proftpd
30 o curl/multi.h works better included in winsock-using apps
31 o curl_easy_reset() no longer enables the progress meter
32 o build fix for SSL disabled curl with SSL Engine support present
33 o configure --with-ssl=PATH now ignores pkg-config path info
34 o CURLOPT_SSLENGINE can be set to NULL even if no engine support is available
35 o LDAP crash when more than one record was received
36 o connect failures properly stores an error message in the errorbuffer
37 o Rare Location:-following problem with bad original URL
38 o -F can now add Content-Type on non-file sections
39 o double Host: header when following Location: with replaced Host:
40 o curl_multi_add_handle() return code
41 o "Proxy-Connection: close" is now understood and properly dealt with
42 o curl_getdate() crash
43 o downloading empty files now calls the write callback properly
44 o no reverse DNS lookups for ip-only addresses with ipv6-enabled libcurl
45 o libcurl works better multi-threaded on AIX (when built with xlc)
46 o cookies over proxy didn't match the path properly
47 o MSVC makefile fixes to build better
48 o FTP response 530 on 'PASS' now sends back a better error message
50 Other curl-related news since the previous public release:
52 o AdacURL version 7.12.1 http://www.almroth.com/adacurl/index.html
53 o pycurl version 7.12.1 http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
54 o tclcurl version 0.12.1
55 http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
57 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
58 advice from friends like these:
60 Casey O'Donnell, Roland Krikava, Alex, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Kjetil
61 Jacobsen, Ling Thio, Roman Koifman, Harshal Pradhan, Jonas Forsman, David
62 Tarendash, Daniel at touchtunes, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Andreas Rieke,
63 Jean-Claude Chauve, Dan Fandrich, Peter Sylvester, "Mekonikum", Jean-Philippe
64 Barrette-LaPierre, Günter Knauf, Larry Campbell, Fedor Karpelevitch,
65 Aleksandar Milivojevic, Gisle Vanem, Chris "Bob Bob"
67 Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)