| Curl and libcurl 7.17.1 |
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| Public curl release number: 102 |
| Releases counted from the very beginning: 128 |
| Available command line options: 121 |
| Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 147 |
| Number of public functions in libcurl: 55 |
| Amount of public web site mirrors: 43 |
| Number of known libcurl bindings: 36 |
| Number of contributors: 588 |
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| This release includes the following changes: |
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| o automatically append ";type=<a|i>" when using HTTP proxies for FTP urls |
| o improved NSS support |
| o added --proxy-negotiate |
| o added --post301 and CURLOPT_POST301 |
| o builds with c-ares 1.5.0 |
| o added CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5 and --hostpubmd5 |
| o renamed CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE to CURLE_PEER_FAILED_VERIFICATION |
| o added CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION and CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETDATA |
| o CULROPT_COOKIELIST supports "FLUSH" |
| o added CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS |
| o added --static-libs to curl-config |
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| This release includes the following bugfixes: |
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| o curl-config --protocols now properly reports LDAPS, SCP and SFTP |
| o ldapv3 support on Windows |
| o ldap builds with the MSVC makefiles |
| o no HOME and no key given caused SSH auth failure |
| o Negotiate authentication over proxy |
| o --ftp-method nocwd on directory listings |
| o FTP, CURLOPT_NOBODY enabled and CURLOPT_HEADER disabled now does TYPE |
| before SIZE |
| o re-used handle transfers with SFTP |
| o curl_easy_escape() problem with byte values >= 128 |
| o handles chunked-encoded CONNECT responses |
| o misuse of ares_timeout() result |
| o --local-port on TFTP transfers |
| o CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS could fail to send binary data |
| o specifying a proxy with a trailing slash didn't work (unless it also |
| contained a port number) |
| o redirect from HTTP to FTP or TFTP memory problems and leaks |
| o re-used connections a bit too much when using non-SSL protocols tunneled |
| over a HTTP proxy |
| o embed the manifest in VC8 builds |
| o use valgrind in the tests even when the lib is built shared with libtool |
| o libcurl built with NSS can now ignore the peer verification even when the |
| ca cert bundle is absent |
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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 |
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| New curl mirrors: |
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| o http://curl.wetzlmayr.at/ is a new web mirror in Nuremberg, Germany |
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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, Michal Marek, Günter Knauf, Rob Crittenden, Immanuel Gregoire, |
| Mark Davies, Max Katsev, Philip Langdale, Alex Fishman, Johnny Luong, |
| Alexey Pesternikov, Yang Tse, Kim Rinnewitz, Michael Wallner, |
| Patrick Monnerat, Vladimir Lazarenko |
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| Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone) |