1 Curl and libcurl 7.12.1
3 Public curl release number: 82
4 Releases counted from the very beginning: 109
5 Available command line options: 96
6 Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 120
7 Number of public functions in libcurl: 36
9 This release includes the following changes:
11 o added curl_easy_reset()
12 o socks proxy support even when libcurl is built ipv6-enabled
13 o read callbacks can stop the transfer by returning CURL_READFUNC_ABORT
14 o libcurl-tutorial.3 is the new man page formerly known as libcurl-the-guide
15 o additional SSL trace data might be sent to the debug callback using two new
16 types: CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_IN and CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_OUT
17 o multipart formposts can upload files larger than system memory
18 o the curl tool continues with the next URL even if one transfer fails
19 o FTP 3rd party transfer support - seven new setopt() options
21 This release includes the following bugfixes:
23 o HTTP Digest fix for properties without quotes in the header
24 o a bad Host: header case on re-used connections over proxy was fixed
25 o a duplicate Host: header case on re-used connections was fixed
26 o curl -o name#[num] now works when no globbing for [num] exists
27 o the test suite runs fine with valgrind 2.1.x
28 o negative Content-Length is now ignored
29 o test 505 runs fine on windows now
30 o curl_share_cleanup() crash fixed
31 o --trace files now get the final info lines too
32 o multi interface connects fine to multi-IP resolving hosts
33 o --limit-rate works on Mac OS X (and other systems with bad poll()s)
34 o cookies can now hold 4999 bytes of content
35 o HTTP POST/PUT with NTLM/Digest/Negotiate to a URL returning 3XX
36 o HTTPS POST/PUT over a proxy requiring NTLM/Digest/Negotiate works now
37 o less restrictive libidn requirements, 0.4.1 or later is fine
38 o fixed HTTP POST or PUT with Digest/Negotiate/NTLM selected but the server
39 didn't require any authentication
40 o win32 file:// transfer free memory bug
41 o configure --disable-http builds a libcurl without HTTP support
42 o CURLOPT_FILETIME had wrong type in curl.h, it expects a long argument
43 o builds fine with Borland on Windows again
44 o the msvc curllib.dsp now builds the libcurl.lib file again
45 o builds fine on VMS again
46 o builds fine on NetWare again
47 o HTTP Digest authentication with proxies uses correct user name + password
48 o now builds fine with lcc-win32
50 Other curl-related news since the previous public release:
52 o James Hu took over after Kevin Roth as maintainer of the curl package on
53 cygwin. Many saludos to Kevin for a work well done during many years.
54 o Gambas binding: http://gambas.sf.net/
55 o pycurl 7.12.0 was released http://pycurl.sf.net/
56 o wxWidgets binding: http://homepage.mac.com/codonnell/wxcurldav/
57 o New Austrian curl web mirror: http://curl.gds.tuwien.ac.at/
58 o TclCurl 0.12.0 was released:
59 http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
60 o Ch binding: http://chcurl.sourceforge.net
61 o New US curl web mirror: http://curl.109k.com/
63 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
64 advice from friends like these:
66 Gisle Vanem, Vincent Bronner, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Chris Gaukroger,
67 Günter Knauf, Marty Kuhrt, Kjetil Jacobsen, Steven Bazyl, Seshubabu Pasam,
68 Luca Alteas, Jean-Louis Lemaire, David Byron, David Cohen, Rob Stanzel,
69 Niels van Tongeren, Andrés García, Toby Peterson, Casey O'Donnell, Brian
70 Akins, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Joel Chen
72 Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)