-Curl and libcurl 7.12.2
+Curl and libcurl 7.12.3
- Public curl release number: 83
- Releases counted from the very beginning: 110
- Available command line options: 96
- Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 121
- Number of public functions in libcurl: 36
- Amount of public web site mirrors: 12
- Number of known libcurl bindings: 27
+ Public curl release number: 84
+ Releases counted from the very beginning: 111
+ Available command line options: 100
+ Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 123
+ Number of public functions in libcurl: 46
+ Amount of public web site mirrors: 13
+ Number of known libcurl bindings: 29
This release includes the following changes:
- o the IDN code now verifies that only TLD-legitmate letters are used in the
- name or a warning is displayed (when verbose is enabled)
- o provides error texts for IDN errors
- o file upload parts in formposts now get their directory names cut off
- o added CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO
- o added CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH to allow ftp connects to attempt "AUTH TLS" instead
- before "AUTH SSL"
- o curl_getdate() completely rewritten: may affect rare curl -z use cases
+ o persistent ftp request improvements
+ o CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION and CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA added. If your app uses HTTP
+ Digest, NTLM or Negotiate authentication, you will most likely want to use
+ these
+ o -w time_redirect and num_redirects
+ o no longer uses libcurl.def for building on Windows, OS/2 and Netware
+ o builds on Windows CE
+ o request retrying, --retry and family added
+ o FTP 3rd party transfers with source and dest on the same host now works
+ o added CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS
This release includes the following bugfixes:
- o libcurl error message is now provided when send() fails
- o no more SIGPIPE on Mac OS X and other SO_NOSIGPIPE-supporting platforms
- o HTTP resume was refused if redirected
- o configure's gethostbyname check when both nsl and socket libs are required
- o configure --with-libidn now checks the given path before defaults
- o a race condition sometimes resulting in CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST in the
- windows threaded name resolver code
- o isspace() invokes with negative values in the cookie code
- o a case of read-already-freed-data when CURLOPT_VERBOSE is used and a (very)
- persistent connection
- o now includes descriptive error messages for IDN errors
- o more forgivning PASS response code check for better working with proftpd
- o curl/multi.h works better included in winsock-using apps
- o curl_easy_reset() no longer enables the progress meter
- o build fix for SSL disabled curl with SSL Engine support present
- o configure --with-ssl=PATH now ignores pkg-config path info
- o CURLOPT_SSLENGINE can be set to NULL even if no engine support is available
- o LDAP crash when more than one record was received
- o connect failures properly stores an error message in the errorbuffer
- o Rare Location:-following problem with bad original URL
- o -F can now add Content-Type on non-file sections
- o double Host: header when following Location: with replaced Host:
- o curl_multi_add_handle() return code
- o "Proxy-Connection: close" is now understood and properly dealt with
- o curl_getdate() crash
- o downloading empty files now calls the write callback properly
- o no reverse DNS lookups for ip-only addresses with ipv6-enabled libcurl
- o file handler leak when getting an empty file:// URL
- o libcurl works better multi-threaded on AIX (when built with xlc)
- o cookies over proxy didn't match the path properly
- o MSVC makefile fixes to build better
- o FTP response 530 on 'PASS' now sends back a better error message
+ o no more extra progress neter newline output after each Location: followed
+ o HTTP PUT/POST with Digest, NTLM or Negotiate no longer uses HEAD
+ o now gracefully bails out when exceeding FD_SETSIZE file descriptors
+ o CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME works
+ o building with gssapi libs and hdeaders in the default dirs
+ o curl_getdate() parsing of dates later than year 2037 with 32 bit time_t
+ o curl -v when stderr is closed wrote debug messages to the network socket
+ o build failure with libidn 0.3.X or older
+ o huge POSTs on VMS
+ o configure no longer uses pkg-config on cross-compiles
+ o potential gzip decompress memory leak
+ o "-C - --fail" on a HTTP page already downloaded
+ o formposting a zero byte file
+ o use setlocale() for better IDN functionality by default
Other curl-related news since the previous public release:
- o AdacURL version 7.12.1 http://www.almroth.com/adacurl/index.html
- o pycurl version 7.12.1 http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
- o tclcurl version 0.12.1
- http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
- o libcurl.NET was announce: http://www.seasideresearch.com/downloads.html
+ o pycurl 7.12.2: http://pycurl.sf.net/
+ o TclCurl 0.12.2: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
+ o libcurl.NET 1.1: http://www.seasideresearch.com/downloads.html
+ o RCurl 0.5.1: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/
+ o libcurl.mono 1.0:
+ http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?libcurl-mono
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
- Casey O'Donnell, Roland Krikava, Alex, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Kjetil
- Jacobsen, Ling Thio, Roman Koifman, Harshal Pradhan, Jonas Forsman, David
- Tarendash, Daniel at touchtunes, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Andreas Rieke,
- Jean-Claude Chauve, Dan Fandrich, Peter Sylvester, "Mekonikum", Jean-Philippe
- Barrette-LaPierre, Günter Knauf, Larry Campbell, Fedor Karpelevitch,
- Aleksandar Milivojevic, Gisle Vanem, Chris "Bob Bob", Chih-Chung Chang,
- Andy Cedilnik, Alan Pinstein
+ Peter Wullinger, Guillaume Arluison, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Mohun Biswas,
+ Tomas Pospisek, Gisle Vanem, Dan Fandrich, Paul Nolan, Andres Garcia,
+ Tim Sneddon, Ian Gulliver, Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre, Jeff Phillips,
+ Wojciech Zwiefka, David Phillips
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
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