| Curl and libcurl 7.12.2 |
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| Public curl release number: 83 |
| Releases counted from the very beginning: 110 |
| Available command line options: 96 |
| Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 121 |
| Number of public functions in libcurl: 36 |
| Amount of public web site mirrors: 13 |
| Number of known libcurl bindings: 27 |
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| This release includes the following changes: |
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| o the IDN code now verifies that only TLD-legitmate letters are used in the |
| name or a warning is displayed (when verbose is enabled) |
| o provides error texts for IDN errors |
| o file upload parts in formposts now get their directory names cut off |
| o added CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO |
| o added CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH to allow ftp connects to attempt "AUTH TLS" instead |
| before "AUTH SSL" |
| o curl_getdate() completely rewritten: may affect rare curl -z use cases |
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| This release includes the following bugfixes: |
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| o CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS works for third party transfers |
| o memory leak for cookies received with max-age set |
| o potential memory leaks in the window name resolver |
| o URLs with ?-letters in the user name or password fields |
| o libcurl error message is now provided when send() fails |
| o no more SIGPIPE on Mac OS X and other SO_NOSIGPIPE-supporting platforms |
| o HTTP resume was refused if redirected |
| o configure's gethostbyname check when both nsl and socket libs are required |
| o configure --with-libidn now checks the given path before defaults |
| o a race condition sometimes resulting in CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST in the |
| windows threaded name resolver code |
| o isspace() invokes with negative values in the cookie code |
| o a case of read-already-freed-data when CURLOPT_VERBOSE is used and a (very) |
| persistent connection |
| o now includes descriptive error messages for IDN errors |
| o more forgivning PASS response code check for better working with proftpd |
| o curl/multi.h works better included in winsock-using apps |
| o curl_easy_reset() no longer enables the progress meter |
| o build fix for SSL disabled curl with SSL Engine support present |
| o configure --with-ssl=PATH now ignores pkg-config path info |
| o CURLOPT_SSLENGINE can be set to NULL even if no engine support is available |
| o LDAP crash when more than one record was received |
| o connect failures properly stores an error message in the errorbuffer |
| o Rare Location:-following problem with bad original URL |
| o -F can now add Content-Type on non-file sections |
| o double Host: header when following Location: with replaced Host: |
| o curl_multi_add_handle() return code |
| o "Proxy-Connection: close" is now understood and properly dealt with |
| o curl_getdate() crash |
| o downloading empty files now calls the write callback properly |
| o no reverse DNS lookups for ip-only addresses with ipv6-enabled libcurl |
| o file handler leak when getting an empty file:// URL |
| o libcurl works better multi-threaded on AIX (when built with xlc) |
| o cookies over proxy didn't match the path properly |
| o MSVC makefile fixes to build better |
| o FTP response 530 on 'PASS' now sends back a better error message |
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| Other curl-related news since the previous public release: |
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| o AdacURL version 7.12.1 http://www.almroth.com/adacurl/index.html |
| o pycurl version 7.12.1 http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ |
| o tclcurl version 0.12.1 |
| http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/ |
| o libcurl.NET was announce: http://www.seasideresearch.com/downloads.html |
| o Get your fresh Mozilla-extracted ca cert bundle here: |
| http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html |
| o New web mirror in Taiwan: http://curl.cs.pu.edu.tw/ |
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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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| Casey O'Donnell, Roland Krikava, Alex, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Kjetil |
| Jacobsen, Ling Thio, Roman Koifman, Harshal Pradhan, Jonas Forsman, David |
| Tarendash, Daniel at touchtunes, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Andreas Rieke, |
| Jean-Claude Chauve, Dan Fandrich, Peter Sylvester, "Mekonikum", Jean-Philippe |
| Barrette-LaPierre, Günter Knauf, Larry Campbell, Fedor Karpelevitch, |
| Aleksandar Milivojevic, Gisle Vanem, Chris "Bob Bob", Chih-Chung Chang, Andy |
| Cedilnik, Alan Pinstein, Eric Vergnaud, Traian Nicolescu, runekl at |
| opoint.com |
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| Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone) |