-Curl and libcurl 7.12.0.
+Curl and libcurl 7.12.3
- Public curl release number: 81
- Releases counted from the very beginning: 108
- Available command line options: 96
- Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 113
- Number of public functions in libcurl: 36
-
-A special thanks to:
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- archivas.com and Alan Pinstein, for paying me to focus on their requests
+ 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 added ability to "upload" to file:// URLs
- o added curl_global_init_mem()
- o removed curl_formparse()
- o the MSVC project file in the release archive is automatically built
- o curl --proxy-digest is a new command line option
- o the Windows version of libcurl can use wldap32.dll for LDAP
- o added curl_easy_strerror(), curl_multi_strerror() and curl_share_strerror()
- o IPv6-enabled Windows hosts now resolves names threaded/asynch as well
- o configure --with-libidn can be used to point out the root dir of a libidn
- installation (version 0.4.5 or later) for curl to use, then libcurl can
- resolve and use IDNA names (domain names with "international" letters)
+ 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 incoming cookies with domains set with a prefixed dot now works better
- o CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE and CURLOPT_COOKIE can be used in the same request
- o improved peer certificate name verification
- o allocation failures cause no leaks nor crashes
- o the progress meter display now handles file sizes up to full 8 exabytes
- (which is as high a signed 64 bit number can reach)
- o general HTTP authentication improvements
- o HTTP Digest authentication with the proxy works
- o mulipart formposting with -F and file names with spaces work again
- o curl_easy_duphandle() now works when ares-enabled
- o HTTP Digest authentication works a lot more like the RFC says
- o curl works with telnet and stdin properly on Windows
- o configure --without-ssl works even when pkg-config has OpenSSL details
- o src/hugehelp.c builds correct again in non-configure build environments
+ 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 The CVS repository was moved to cool.haxx.se
- o AdacURL 7.11.2 was released: http://www.almroth.com/adacurl/
- o PycURL 7.11.3 was released: http://pycurl.sourceforge.net
- o A new German download mirror: http://www.mirrorspace.org/curl/
- o Two new mailing lists are available:
- curl-and-python - for python programmers using pycurl or curl
- curl-perl-commmits - receives commits done to the curl-perl CVS module
+ 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:
- Gisle Vanem, Tommy Tam, Luca Altea, James Bursa, Mihai Ionescu, Michael
- Benedict, Andrés García, Joe Halpin, Seshubabu Pasam, Peter Sylvester, Robert
- D. Young, Jesse Noller, David Byron, Massimiliano Ziccardi, Mohun Biswas,
- Renaud Duhaut
+ 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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