| Curl and libcurl 7.10.8. A bugfix release. |
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| The 77th public curl release. Release number 104 counted from the very |
| beginning. |
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| This release includes the following changes: |
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| o --head now works on file:// URLs too |
| o file: URLs with only one initial slash now works too |
| o RELEASE-NOTES document added to the release archive to summarize the big |
| and visible changes and bugfixes |
| o CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE was added, and --max-filesize |
| o CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA are no longer supported |
| o IPv6 is now supported on Windows builds too |
| o CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE lets you select pure IPv6 or IPv4 resolved addresses |
| (curl offers the command line options -4/--ipv4 and -6/--ipv6) |
| o GSS-Negotiate works fine with the MIT kerberos library |
| o SPNEGO support added, if libcurl is built with the FBopenssl libraries, |
| curl_version_info() can return a feature bit for it and curl -V displays |
| SPNEGO as a feature if libcurl is built with it enabled |
| o easy handles added to a multi handle now share DNS cache automaticly |
| o CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_AVAIL and CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_AVAIL were added |
| o CURLOPT_FTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT was added |
| o NTLM, Digest and GSS-Negotiate authentications also work for HTTPS over |
| proxies |
| o curl supports multiple -T flags to allow serveral uploaded files using |
| a single command line |
| o CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE can return the last FTP response code |
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| This release includes the following bugfixes: |
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| o added work-around for a name resolve problem on some glibc versions |
| o a rare ERRORBUFFER single-byte overflow was fixed |
| o HTTP-resuming an already downloaded file works better |
| o builds better on Solaris 8+ with gcc |
| o --disable-eprt works now |
| o improved CA cert verification |
| o --anyauth could bug when the first response had no body contents |
| o double password prompting when doing NTLM fixed |
| o improved performance when used multi-threaded on windows |
| o share-locking during DNS lookups was modified |
| o resume was not possible to switch off properly once enabled |
| o fixed the ipv4 connect code when a DNS entry has multiple IPs |
| o now checks subjectAltNames when matching certs |
| o HTTP POST using read callback works again |
| o builds fine on BeOS now |
| o CURLOPT_COOKIE set to NULL no longer sends the previously set cookie |
| o if an FTP transfer used a bad path, the next transfer could fail too |
| o ares-built libcurl resolves IP-only names properly |
| o changed the curl_lock_function proto to prevent warnings on some compilers |
| o builds fine on QNX 6.2.x now |
| o PUT with --digest works now |
| o --anyauth that picks NTLM and then follows a redirect (and does NTLM again) |
| works now |
| o asynch resolves now work on NT4 too |
| o a DNS cache trash (possible segfault) was fixed |
| o runtests.pl clears all proxy environment variables before the test is run |
| o Microsoft's "Negotiate" authentication is now supported by the existing |
| GSSNEGOTIATE option |
| o A set zero-length proxy name confused libcurl |
| o Digest authentication works again without OpenSSL on 64bit architectures |
| o configure --enable-thread works now |
| o buffer problems in the test suite's web server were fixed |
| o improved proxy password handling |
| o LDAP is again working nicely with the current OpenLDAP |
| o asynch name lookup for non-resolving hosts now return a proper error message |
| o CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1 no longer aborts if no CN field is |
| obtainable, it will merely warn about it |
| o name resolve segfault with uClibc fixed |
| o multi interface and multi-part/formpost could end in segfault |
| o curl_multi_info_read() sets the msgs_in_queue to 0 when returning NULL |
| o multi interface, ares and non-resolving host caused a segfault |
| o minor single SSL memory leak fixed |
| o Setting CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION or CURLOPT_READFUNCTION to NULL resets them |
| to default |
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| Other curl-related news since the previous public release: |
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| o TclCurl 0.10.7 was released. |
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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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| Loren Kirkby, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Antoine Calando, Gerd v. Egidy, Vincent |
| Sanders, John McGowan, Henrik Storner, Jörg Mueller-Tolk, Peter Pentchev, |
| Early Ehlinger, Kevin Fisk, Jurij Smakov, Bjorn Reese, Tim Bartley, David |
| Kimdon, Dominick Meglio, Markus Moeller, Giuseppe Attardi, James MacMillan, |
| Neil Spring, Siddhartha Prakash Jain, Jon Turner, Vincent Bronner, Shard, |
| Jeremy Friesner, Florian Schoppmann, Neil Dunbar, Frank Ticheler, Lachlan |
| O'Dea, Dirk Manske, Domenico Andreoli, Gisle Vanem, Kimmo Kinnunen, Andrew |
| Fuller, Georg Horn, Andrés García, Dylan Ellicott, Kevin Roth, David Hull, |
| James Bursa, Dan C |
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| Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone) |