Curl and libcurl 7.17.1 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: 42 Number of known libcurl bindings: 36 Number of contributors: 588 This release includes the following changes: o automatically append ";type=" 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 This release includes the following bugfixes: 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 This release includes the following known bugs: o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html) Other curl-related news: o New curl mirrors: o http://curl.wetzlmayr.at/ is a new web mirror in Nuremberg, Germany This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and advice from friends like these: 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 Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)