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