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: 13
9 Number of known libcurl bindings: 27
11 This release includes the following changes:
13 o the IDN code now verifies that only TLD-legitmate letters are used in the
14 name or a warning is displayed (when verbose is enabled)
15 o provides error texts for IDN errors
16 o file upload parts in formposts now get their directory names cut off
17 o added CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO
18 o added CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH to allow ftp connects to attempt "AUTH TLS" instead
20 o curl_getdate() completely rewritten: may affect rare curl -z use cases
22 This release includes the following bugfixes:
24 o CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS works for third party transfers
25 o memory leak for cookies received with max-age set
26 o potential memory leaks in the window name resolver
27 o URLs with ?-letters in the user name or password fields
28 o libcurl error message is now provided when send() fails
29 o no more SIGPIPE on Mac OS X and other SO_NOSIGPIPE-supporting platforms
30 o HTTP resume was refused if redirected
31 o configure's gethostbyname check when both nsl and socket libs are required
32 o configure --with-libidn now checks the given path before defaults
33 o a race condition sometimes resulting in CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST in the
34 windows threaded name resolver code
35 o isspace() invokes with negative values in the cookie code
36 o a case of read-already-freed-data when CURLOPT_VERBOSE is used and a (very)
38 o now includes descriptive error messages for IDN errors
39 o more forgivning PASS response code check for better working with proftpd
40 o curl/multi.h works better included in winsock-using apps
41 o curl_easy_reset() no longer enables the progress meter
42 o build fix for SSL disabled curl with SSL Engine support present
43 o configure --with-ssl=PATH now ignores pkg-config path info
44 o CURLOPT_SSLENGINE can be set to NULL even if no engine support is available
45 o LDAP crash when more than one record was received
46 o connect failures properly stores an error message in the errorbuffer
47 o Rare Location:-following problem with bad original URL
48 o -F can now add Content-Type on non-file sections
49 o double Host: header when following Location: with replaced Host:
50 o curl_multi_add_handle() return code
51 o "Proxy-Connection: close" is now understood and properly dealt with
52 o curl_getdate() crash
53 o downloading empty files now calls the write callback properly
54 o no reverse DNS lookups for ip-only addresses with ipv6-enabled libcurl
55 o file handler leak when getting an empty file:// URL
56 o libcurl works better multi-threaded on AIX (when built with xlc)
57 o cookies over proxy didn't match the path properly
58 o MSVC makefile fixes to build better
59 o FTP response 530 on 'PASS' now sends back a better error message
61 Other curl-related news since the previous public release:
63 o AdacURL version 7.12.1 http://www.almroth.com/adacurl/index.html
64 o pycurl version 7.12.1 http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
65 o tclcurl version 0.12.1
66 http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
67 o libcurl.NET was announce: http://www.seasideresearch.com/downloads.html
68 o Get your fresh Mozilla-extracted ca cert bundle here:
69 http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html
70 o New web mirror in Taiwan: http://curl.cs.pu.edu.tw/
72 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
73 advice from friends like these:
75 Casey O'Donnell, Roland Krikava, Alex, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Kjetil
76 Jacobsen, Ling Thio, Roman Koifman, Harshal Pradhan, Jonas Forsman, David
77 Tarendash, Daniel at touchtunes, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Andreas Rieke,
78 Jean-Claude Chauve, Dan Fandrich, Peter Sylvester, "Mekonikum", Jean-Philippe
79 Barrette-LaPierre, Günter Knauf, Larry Campbell, Fedor Karpelevitch,
80 Aleksandar Milivojevic, Gisle Vanem, Chris "Bob Bob", Chih-Chung Chang, Andy
81 Cedilnik, Alan Pinstein, Eric Vergnaud, Traian Nicolescu, runekl at
84 Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)