| Curl and libcurl 7.16.0 |
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| Public curl release number: 96 |
| Releases counted from the very beginning: 123 |
| Available command line options: 112 |
| Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 133 |
| Number of public functions in libcurl: 54 |
| Amount of public web site mirrors: 37 |
| Number of known libcurl bindings: 34 |
| Number of contributors: 515 |
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| This release includes the following changes: |
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| o Added CURLE_SSL_CACERT_BADFILE |
| o Added CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION and CURLMOPT_TIMERDATA |
| o (FTP) the CURLOPT_SOURCE_* options are removed and so are the --3p* command |
| line options |
| o curl_multi_socket() and family are suitable to start using |
| o uses WSAPoll() on Windows Vista |
| o (FTP) --ftp-ssl-control was added |
| o CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE and --no-sessionid added |
| o CURLMOPT_PIPELINING added for enabling HTTP pipelined transfers |
| o multi handles now have a shared connection cache |
| o Added support for other MS-DOS compilers (besides djgpp) |
| o CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION and CURLOPT_SOCKOPTDATA were added |
| o (FTP) libcurl avoids sending TYPE if the desired type was already set |
| o (FTP) CURLOPT_PREQUOTE works even when CURLOPT_NOBODY is set true |
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| This release includes the following bugfixes: |
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| o (HTTP) CURLOPT_FAILONERROR (curl -f) covers a few more reponse cases |
| o curl_multi_socket() and the LOW_SPEED options |
| o curl_multi_socket() expire timer during c-ares name resolves |
| o curl_multi_add_handle on an already added handle now fails gracefully |
| o multi interface crash if bad function call order was used for cleanup |
| o put a new URL in saved cookie jar files |
| o configure --with-gssapi-libs |
| o SOCKS proxy connection fixes |
| o (FTP) a failed upload does not invalidate the control connection |
| o proxy URL with user name and empty password or no password at all now work |
| o fixed a socket state problem with *multi_socket() |
| o (HTTP) NTLM hostname fix |
| o getsockname usage fixes |
| o SOCKS5 proxy connects can now time-out |
| o SOCKS5 connects that require auth no longer segfaults when auth not given |
| o multi interface using asynch resolves could get stuck in wrong state |
| o the 'running_handles' counter wasn't always updated properly when |
| curl_multi_remove_handle() was used |
| o (FTP) EPRT transfers with IPv6 didn't work properly |
| o (FTP) SINGLECWD mode and using files in the root dir |
| o (HTTP) Expect: header disabling work better |
| o (HTTP) "Expect: 100-continue" disable on second POST on re-used connection |
| o src/config.h.in is fixed |
| o (HTTP) POST data logged to the debug callback function is now correctly |
| tagged as data, not header |
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| Other curl-related news: |
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| o pycurl-7.15.5 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net |
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| New curl mirrors: |
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| o http://curl.geosdreams.info/ is a new Polish mirror |
| o http://curl.gfiles.org/ is a new Russian mirror |
| o http://curl.online-mirror.de/ is a new German mirror |
| o http://curl.blogvoid.com/ is a new Canadian mirror |
| o http://curl.internet.bs/ is a new United Kingdom mirror |
| o http://curl2.haxx.se/ is a new Swedish 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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| Domenico Andreoli, Armel Asselin, Gisle Vanem, Yang Tse, Andrew Biggs, |
| Peter Sylvester, David McCreedy, Dmitriy Sergeyev, Dmitry Rechkin, |
| Jari Sundell, Ravi Pratap, Michele Bini, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Michael Wallner, |
| Mike Protts, Cory Nelson, Bernard Leak, Bogdan Nicula, Dan Fandrich, |
| Nir Soffer |
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| Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone) |
