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 socks proxy support even when libcurl is built ipv6-enabled
12 o read callbacks can stop the transfer by returning CURL_READFUNC_ABORT
13 o libcurl-tutorial.3 is the new man page formerly known as libcurl-the-guide
14 o additional SSL trace data might be sent to the debug callback using two new
15 types: CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_IN and CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_OUT
16 o multipart formposts can upload files larger than system memory
17 o the curl tool continues with the next URL even if one transfer fails
18 o FTP 3rd party transfer support - seven new setopt() options
20 This release includes the following bugfixes:
22 o --limit-rate works on Mac OS X (and other systems with bad poll()s)
23 o cookies can now hold 4999 bytes of content
24 o HTTP POST/PUT with NTLM/Digest/Negotiate to a URL returning 3XX
25 o HTTPS POST/PUT over a proxy requiring NTLM/Digest/Negotiate works now
26 o less restrictive libidn requirements, 0.4.1 or later is fine
27 o fixed HTTP POST or PUT with Digest/Negotiate/NTLM selected but the server
28 didn't require any authentication
29 o win32 file:// transfer free memory bug
30 o configure --disable-http builds a libcurl without HTTP support
31 o CURLOPT_FILETIME had wrong type, it expects a long argument
32 o builds fine with Borland on Windows again
33 o the msvc curllib.dsp now builds the libcurl.lib file again
34 o builds fine on VMS again
35 o builds fine on NetWare again
36 o HTTP Digest authentication with proxies uses correct user name + password
37 o now builds fine with lcc-win32
39 Other curl-related news since the previous public release:
41 o James Hu took over after Kevin Roth as maintainer of the curl package on
42 cygwin. Many saludos to Kevin for a work well done during many years.
43 o Gambas binding for libcurl: http://gambas.sf.net/
44 o pycurl 7.12.0 was released http://pycurl.sf.net/
46 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
47 advice from friends like these:
49 Gisle Vanem, Vincent Bronner, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Chris Gaukroger,
50 Günter Knauf, Marty Kuhrt, Kjetil Jacobsen, Steven Bazyl, Seshubabu Pasam,
51 Luca Alteas, Jean-Louis Lemaire, David Byron, David Cohen, Rob Stanzel
53 Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)