| Curl and libcurl 7.17.0 |
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| Public curl release number: 101 |
| Releases counted from the very beginning: 127 |
| Available command line options: 118 |
| Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 143 |
| Number of public functions in libcurl: 55 |
| Amount of public web site mirrors: 41 |
| Number of known libcurl bindings: 35 |
| Number of contributors: 572 |
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| This release includes the following changes: |
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| o support for OS/400 Secure Sockets Layer library |
| o curl_easy_setopt() now allocates strings passed to it |
| o SCP and SFTP support now requires libssh2 0.16 or later |
| o LDAP libraries are now linked "regularly" and not with dlopen |
| o HTTP transfers have the download size info "available" earlier |
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| This release includes the following bugfixes: |
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| o test cases 31, 46, 61, 506, 517 now work in time zones that use leap seconds |
| o problem with closed proxy connection during HTTP CONNECT auth negotiation |
| o transfer-encoding skipping didn't ignore the 407 response bodies properly |
| o CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1 |
| o CONNECT endless loop |
| o krb5 support builds with Heimdal |
| o added returned error string for connection refused case |
| o re-use of dead FTP control connections |
| o login to FTP servers that don't require (nor understand) PASS after the |
| USER command |
| o bad free of memory from libssh2 |
| o the SFTP PWD command works |
| o HTTP Digest auth on a re-used connection |
| o FTPS data connection close |
| o AIX 4 and 5 get to use non-blocking sockets |
| o small POST with NTLM |
| o resumed file:// transfers |
| o CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE are 64 bit |
| "clean" |
| o memory leak when handling compressed data streams from broken servers |
| o no NTLM unicode response |
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| This release includes the following known bugs: |
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| o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html) |
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| Other curl-related news: |
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| o pycurl 7.16.4 was released http://pycurl.sf.net |
| o TclCurl 7.16.4 was released |
| http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/ |
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| New curl mirrors: |
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| o http://curl.freeby.pctools.cl is a new mirror in Santiago, Chile |
| o http://curl.site2nd.org is a new mirror in Dallas, Texas, USA |
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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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| Dan Fandrich, Song Ma, Daniel Black, Giancarlo Formicuccia, Shmulik Regev, |
| Daniel Cater, Colin Hogben, Jofell Gallardo, Daniel Johnson, |
| Ralf S. Engelschall, James Housley, Chris Flerackers, Patrick Monnerat, |
| Jayesh A Shah, Greg Zavertnik, Peter O'Gorman, Greg Morse, Dmitriy Sergeyev, |
| Scott Cantor, Allen Pulsifer, Andrew Wansink |
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| Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone) |