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Curl and libcurl 7.16.1

 Public curl release number:               97
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 124
 Available command line options:           112
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     133
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    54
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        39
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         35
 Number of contributors:                   524

This release includes the following changes:
 
 o Support for SCP and SFTP were added

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o proxy close during CONNECT authentication is now dealt with nicely
 o the CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION was sometimes called even when CURLOPT_VERBOSE
   was not enabled
 o multiple TFTP transfers on the same (easy or multi) handle could cause a
   crash
 o SIGSEGV when disconnecting on a transfer on a re-used handle when the
   host name didn't resolve
 o stack overwrite on 64bit Windows in the chunked decoding department
 o HTTP responses on persistent connections without Content-Length nor chunked
   encoding are now considered to be without response body
 o Content-Range: header parsing improved
 o CPU 100% load when HTTP upload connection broke
 o active FTP didn't work with multi interface
 o curl_getdate() could be off one hour for TZ time zones with DST, on windows
 o CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE works again

Other curl-related news:

 o TclCurl 7.16.0 was released:
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
 o Curb - Libcurl bindings for Ruby: http://curb.rubyforge.org/

New curl mirrors:

 o curl.miroir-francais.fr is a new French web mirror
 o curl.dsmirror.nl is a new Dutch web mirror

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

 James Housley, Olaf Stueben, Yang Tse, Gisle Vanem, Bradford Bruce,
 Ciprian Badescu, Dmitriy Sergeyev, Nir Soffer, Venkat Akella, Toon Verwaest,
 Matt Witherspoon, Alexey Simak, Martin Skinner, Sh Diao

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