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