Curl and libcurl 7.12.3 Public curl release number: 84 Releases counted from the very beginning: 111 Available command line options: 100 Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 123 Number of public functions in libcurl: 46 Amount of public web site mirrors: 13 Number of known libcurl bindings: 29 This release includes the following changes: o persistent ftp request improvements o CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION and CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA added. If your app uses HTTP Digest, NTLM or Negotiate authentication, you will most likely want to use these o -w time_redirect and num_redirects o no longer uses libcurl.def for building on Windows, OS/2 and Netware o builds on Windows CE o request retrying, --retry and family added o FTP 3rd party transfers with source and dest on the same host now works o added CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS This release includes the following bugfixes: o chunked-encoded transfers could get closed pre-maturely without error o proxy CONNECT now default timeouts after 3600 seconds o --disable-epsv and --disable-eprt are ignored when connecting to an IPv6 ftp server o no more extra progress meter newline output after each Location: followed o HTTP PUT/POST with Digest, NTLM or Negotiate no longer uses HEAD o now gracefully bails out when exceeding FD_SETSIZE file descriptors o CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME works o building with gssapi libs and hdeaders in the default dirs o curl_getdate() parsing of dates later than year 2037 with 32 bit time_t o curl -v when stderr is closed wrote debug messages to the network socket o build failure with libidn 0.3.X or older o huge POSTs on VMS o configure no longer uses pkg-config on cross-compiles o potential gzip decompress memory leak o "-C - --fail" on a HTTP page already downloaded o formposting a zero byte file o use setlocale() for better IDN functionality by default Other curl-related news since the previous public release: o pycurl 7.12.2: http://pycurl.sf.net/ o TclCurl 0.12.2: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/ o libcurl.NET 1.2: http://www.seasideresearch.com/downloads.html o RCurl 0.5.1: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/ o libcurl.mono 1.0: http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?libcurl-mono This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and advice from friends like these: Peter Wullinger, Guillaume Arluison, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Mohun Biswas, Tomas Pospisek, Gisle Vanem, Dan Fandrich, Paul Nolan, Andres Garcia, Tim Sneddon, Ian Gulliver, Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre, Jeff Phillips, Wojciech Zwiefka, David Phillips, Reinout van Schouwen, Maurice Barnum Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)