1 Curl and libcurl 7.12.3
3 Public curl release number: 84
4 Releases counted from the very beginning: 111
5 Available command line options: 100
6 Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 123
7 Number of public functions in libcurl: 46
8 Amount of public web site mirrors: 13
9 Number of known libcurl bindings: 29
11 This release includes the following changes:
13 o CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION and CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA added. If your app uses HTTP
14 Digest, NTLM or Negotiate authentication, you will most likely want to use
16 o -w time_redirect and num_redirects
17 o no longer uses libcurl.def for building on Windows, OS/2 and Netware
18 o builds on Windows CE
19 o request retrying, --retry and family added
20 o FTP 3rd party transfers with source and dest on the same host now works
21 o added CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS
23 This release includes the following bugfixes:
25 o HTTP PUT/POST with Digest, NTLM or Negotiate no longer uses HEAD
26 o now gracefully bails out when exceeding FD_SETSIZE file descriptors
27 o CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME works
28 o building with gssapi libs and hdeaders in the default dirs
29 o curl_getdate() parsing of dates later than year 2037 with 32 bit time_t
30 o curl -v when stderr is closed wrote debug messages to the network socket
31 o build failure with libidn 0.3.X or older
33 o configure no longer uses pkg-config on cross-compiles
34 o potential gzip decompress memory leak
35 o "-C - --fail" on a HTTP page already downloaded
36 o formposting a zero byte file
37 o use setlocale() for better IDN functionality by default
39 Other curl-related news since the previous public release:
41 o pycurl 7.12.2: http://pycurl.sf.net/
42 o TclCurl 0.12.2: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
43 o libcurl.NET 1.1: http://www.seasideresearch.com/downloads.html
44 o RCurl 0.5.1: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/
46 http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?libcurl-mono
48 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
49 advice from friends like these:
51 Peter Wullinger, Guillaume Arluison, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Mohun Biswas,
52 Tomas Pospisek, Gisle Vanem, Dan Fandrich, Paul Nolan, Andres Garcia,
53 Tim Sneddon, Ian Gulliver, Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre, Jeff Phillips,
54 Wojciech Zwiefka, David Phillips
56 Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)