| Curl and libcurl 7.11.1. A bugfix release. |
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| Public curl release number: 79 |
| Releases counted from the very beginning: 106 |
| Available command line options: 94 |
| Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 117 |
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| This release includes the following changes: |
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| o name resolves can now timeout on windows too |
| o $HOME is now recognized better when looking for .netrc files |
| o now re-uses the ares handle when re-using curl handles |
| o SO_BINDTODEVICE is used for network interface binding |
| o configure --disable-manual disables the built-in huge manual from the |
| command line tool |
| o the default Accept: header used in HTTP requests changed |
| o asynch dns lookups now require the c-ares library |
| o curl --socks can be used to set a SOCKS5 proxy to use |
| o response-headers received after a (proxy) CONNECT request are now passed |
| to the header callback just like other headers |
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| This release includes the following bugfixes: |
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| o --limit-rate no longer cripples the --speed-limit feature |
| o fixed verbose output problem with ipv6-enabled re-used connections |
| o fixed the socks5 code to check version in the socks response properly |
| o dns cache bug - fixed the 'inuse' counter |
| o large file fix for Content-Length |
| o better docs for the share interface |
| o several configure fixes for mingw/msys |
| o setting a Host: header is no longer affecting the Host: header used when |
| libcurl follows a Location: |
| o fixed numerous compiler warnings on several operating systems and compilers |
| o PUTing from stdin couldn't disable chunked transfer-encoding |
| o corrected the mingw makefiles |
| o improved the configure libz detection |
| o fixed EPRT/PORT use when doing FTP on ipv6-enabled AIX hosts |
| o *nroff commands that only support -mandoc and not -man are now supported |
| (for the built-in manual text in the command line tool) |
| o fixed the unconditional #include of config.h in hugehelp.c |
| o builds fine on MPE/iX |
| o upload using chunked transfer-encoding now sends the last chunk properly |
| teriminated with an extra CRLF |
| o Fixed the progress meter display for files >2GB |
| o persistant connections over a proxy messed up the proxy name/password |
| o the socks5 code segfaulted if no username/password was set |
| o the *_LARGE options now take curl_off_t types as parameters and this will |
| make it possible to handle large files on windows too |
| o builds with large file support even on systems without strtoll() |
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| Other curl-related news since the previous public release: |
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| o the curl mailing lists moved, (re-)subscribe to the new ones from here: |
| http://curl.haxx.se/mail/ |
| o c-ares 1.0.0 was relased: http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/ |
| o TclCurl 0.11.0 was released: |
| http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/ |
| o PycURL 7.11.0 was released: http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ |
| o the libcurl D binding was released: |
| http://www.atari-soldiers.com/libcurl.html |
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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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| Gisle Vanem, Vincent Bronner, Richard Bramante, Dirk Manske, Dan Fandrich, |
| Ken Hirsch, Stadler Stephan, Domenico Andreoli, Patrick Smith, Tor Arntsen, |
| Andrés García, Tim Baker, Len Krause, Gilad, Ken Rastatter, P R Schaffner, |
| Greg Hewgill, Ben Greear, Jeff Lawson, Grigory Entin, Doug Porter, David |
| Byron |
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| Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone) |