Curl and libcurl 7.27.0

 Public curl releases:         128
 Command line options:         152
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   199
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Known libcurl bindings:       39
 Contributors:                 953

This release includes the following changes:

 o nss: use human-readable error messages provided by NSS
 o added --metalink for metalink download support
 o pop3: Added support for sasl plain text authentication
 o pop3: Added support for sasl login authentication 
 o pop3: Added support for sasl ntlm authentication
 o pop3: Added support for sasl cram-md5 authentication
 o pop3: Added support for sasl digest-md5 authentication

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o pop3: Fixed the issue of having to supply the user name for all requests
 o configure: fix LDAPS disabling related misplaced closing parenthesis
 o cmdline: made -D option work with -O and -J
 o configure: Fix libcurl.pc and curl-config generation for static MingW*
   cross builds

This release includes the following known bugs:

 o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:

 Anthony Bryan, Guenter Knauf, Kamil Dudka, Steve Holme, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa,
 Yang Tse, Gokhan Sengun

        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues: