| Curl and libcurl 7.12.3 |
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| Public curl release number: 84 |
| Releases counted from the very beginning: 111 |
| Available command line options: 100 |
| Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 121 |
| Number of public functions in libcurl: 46 |
| Amount of public web site mirrors: 13 |
| Number of known libcurl bindings: 28 |
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| This release includes the following changes: |
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| 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 |
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| This release includes the following bugfixes: |
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| 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 |
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| Other curl-related news since the previous public release: |
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| 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/ |
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| This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and |
| advice from friends like these: |
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| 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 |
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| Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone) |