Curl and libcurl 7.16.2 Public curl release number: 98 Releases counted from the very beginning: 125 Available command line options: 117 Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 141 Number of public functions in libcurl: 54 Amount of public web site mirrors: 38 Number of known libcurl bindings: 35 Number of contributors: 539 This release includes the following changes: o added CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS o added CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING, CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING and --raw o added support for using the NSS library for TLS/SSL o changed default anonymous FTP password o changed the CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC option to handle active and passive CCC shutdown o added the --ftp-ssl-ccc-mode command line option o includes VC8 Makefiles in the release archive This release includes the following bugfixes: o in testsuite, update test cookies expiration from 2007-Feb-1 to year 2035 o socks5 works o builds fine with VC2005 o CURLOPT_RANGE set to NULL resets the range for FTP o curl_multi_remove_handle() rare crash o passive FTP transfers work with SOCKS o multi interface HTTPS connection re-use memory leak o libcurl.m4's --with-libcurl is improved o curl-config --libs and libcurl.pc no longer list unnecessary dependencies o fixed an issue with CCC not working on some servers o several HTTP pipelining problems o HTTP CONNECT thru a proxy is now less blocking when the multi interface is used o HTTP Digest header parsing fix for unquoted last word ending with CRLF o CURLOPT_PORT, HTTP proxy, re-using connections and non-HTTP protocols o CURLOPT_INTERFACE for ipv6 This release includes the following known bugs: o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html) Other curl-related news: o pycurl 7.16.1 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net/ New curl mirrors: o http://curl.basemirror.de is a new mirror in Germany o http://curl.xxtracker.org is a new mirror in The Netherlands This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and advice from friends like these: Yang Tse, Manfred Schwarb, Michael Wallner, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Shmulik Regev, Rob Crittenden, Robert A. Monat, Dan Fandrich, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett, Michal Marek, Robson Braga Araujo, Ian Turner, Linus Nielsen Feltzing, Ravi Pratap, Adam D. Moss, Jose Kahan, Hang Kin Lau, Justin Fletcher, Robert Iakobashvili Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)