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Curl and libcurl 7.16.2
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Curl and libcurl 7.16.4
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Public curl release number: 98
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Releases counted from the very beginning: 125
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Public curl release number: 100
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Releases counted from the very beginning: 126
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Available command line options: 118
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Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 141
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Number of public functions in libcurl: 54
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Amount of public web site mirrors: 38
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Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 143
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Number of public functions in libcurl: 55
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Amount of public web site mirrors: 39
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Number of known libcurl bindings: 35
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Number of contributors: 539
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Number of contributors: 572
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This release includes the following changes:
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o added CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS
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o added CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING, CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING and
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o added support for using the NSS library for TLS/SSL
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o changed default anonymous FTP password
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o changed the CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC option to handle active and passive
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o added the --ftp-ssl-ccc-mode command line option
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o includes VC8 Makefiles in the release archive
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o --ftp-ssl-control is now honoured on ftps:// URLs
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o added experimental CURL_ACKNOWLEDGE_EINTR symbol definition check
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o --key and new --pubkey options for SSH public key file logins
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o --pass now works for a SSH public key file, too
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o select (2) support no longer needed to build the library if poll() used
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o CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE works for SFTP
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o added CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS and CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS
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o improved hashing of sockets for the multi_socket API
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o ftp kerberos5 support added
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This release includes the following bugfixes:
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o in testsuite, update test cookies expiration from 2007-Feb-1 to year 2035
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o builds fine with VC2005
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o CURLOPT_RANGE set to NULL resets the range for FTP
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o curl_multi_remove_handle() rare crash
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o passive FTP transfers work with SOCKS
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o multi interface HTTPS connection re-use memory leak
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o libcurl.m4's --with-libcurl is improved
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o curl-config --libs and libcurl.pc no longer list unnecessary dependencies
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o fixed an issue with CCC not working on some servers
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o several HTTP pipelining problems
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o HTTP CONNECT thru a proxy is now less blocking when the multi interface is
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o HTTP Digest header parsing fix for unquoted last word ending with CRLF
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o CURLOPT_PORT, HTTP proxy, re-using connections and non-HTTP protocols
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o CURLOPT_INTERFACE for ipv6
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o use-after-free issue with HTTP transfers with the multi interface
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o the progress callback can get called more frequently
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o timeout would restart when signal caught while awaiting socket events
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o curl -f with user+password embedded in the URL
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o 26 flaws identified by coverity.com
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o builds on QNX 6 again
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o adjusted how libcurl treats HTTP 1.1 responses without content-lenth or
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o fixed the 10-at-a-time.c example
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o FTP over SOCKS proxy
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o improved error messages on SCP upload failures
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o security flaw (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20070710.html) in which libcurl
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failed to properly reject some outdated or not yet valid server certificates
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when built with GnuTLS
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This release includes the following known bugs:
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Other curl-related news:
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o pycurl 7.16.1 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net/
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o http://curl.basemirror.de is a new mirror in Germany
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o http://curl.xxtracker.org is a new mirror in The Netherlands
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This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
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advice from friends like these:
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Yang Tse, Manfred Schwarb, Michael Wallner, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Shmulik Regev,
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Rob Crittenden, Robert A. Monat, Dan Fandrich, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett,
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Michal Marek, Robson Braga Araujo, Ian Turner, Linus Nielsen Feltzing,
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Ravi Pratap, Adam D. Moss, Jose Kahan, Hang Kin Lau, Justin Fletcher,
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Robert Iakobashvili, Bryan Henderson, Eygene Ryabinkin, Daniel Johnson,
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Matt Kraai, Nick Zitzmann, Rob Jones
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Robert Iakobashvili, James Housley, G�nter Knauf, James Bursa, Song Ma,
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Thomas J. Moore, Gavrie Philipson, Kees Cook
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Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
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