| Curl and libcurl 7.16.1 |
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| Public curl release number: 97 |
| Releases counted from the very beginning: 124 |
| Available command line options: 112 |
| Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 133 |
| Number of public functions in libcurl: 54 |
| Amount of public web site mirrors: 39 |
| Number of known libcurl bindings: 35 |
| Number of contributors: 524 |
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| This release includes the following changes: |
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| o Support for SCP and SFTP were added |
| o CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY is now deprecated |
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| This release includes the following bugfixes: |
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| o proxy close during CONNECT authentication is now dealt with nicely |
| o the CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION was sometimes called even when CURLOPT_VERBOSE |
| was not enabled |
| o multiple TFTP transfers on the same (easy or multi) handle could cause a |
| crash |
| o SIGSEGV when disconnecting on a transfer on a re-used handle when the |
| host name didn't resolve |
| o stack overwrite on 64bit Windows in the chunked decoding department |
| o HTTP responses on persistent connections without Content-Length nor chunked |
| encoding are now considered to be without response body |
| o Content-Range: header parsing improved |
| o CPU 100% load when HTTP upload connection broke |
| o active FTP didn't work with multi interface |
| o curl_getdate() could be off one hour for TZ time zones with DST, on windows |
| o CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE works again |
| o CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS set to zero caused libcurl to SIGSEGV |
| o rate limiting works better |
| o getting FTP response code errors when using the multi-interface caused |
| libcurl to leak memory |
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| Other curl-related news: |
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| o TclCurl 7.16.0 was released: |
| http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/ |
| o Curb - Libcurl bindings for Ruby: http://curb.rubyforge.org/ |
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| New curl mirrors: |
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| o curl.miroir-francais.fr is a new French web mirror |
| o curl.dsmirror.nl is a new Dutch web mirror |
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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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| James Housley, Olaf Stueben, Yang Tse, Gisle Vanem, Bradford Bruce, |
| Ciprian Badescu, Dmitriy Sergeyev, Nir Soffer, Venkat Akella, Toon Verwaest, |
| Matt Witherspoon, Alexey Simak, Martin Skinner, Sh Diao, Jared Lundell, |
| Stefan Krause, Sebastien Willemijns, Alexey Simak |
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| Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone) |