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Curl and libcurl 7.17.2

 Public curl releases:         103
 Command line options:         122
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   148
 Public functions in libcurl:  55
 Public web site mirrors:      42
 Known libcurl bindings:       36
 Contributors:                 597

This release includes the following changes:
 
 o --data-urlencode was added
 o CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE was added

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o curl-config --features and --protocols show the correct output when built
   with NSS, and also when SCP, SFTP and libz are not available
 o free problem in the curl tool for users with empty home dir
 o curl.h version 7.17.1 problem when building C++ apps with MSVC
 o SFTP and SCP use persistent connections
 o segfault on bad URL
 o variable wrapping when using absolutely huge send buffer sizes
 o variable wrapping when using debug callback and the HTTP request wasn't sent
   in one go
 o SSL connections with NSS done with the multi-interface
 o setting a share no longer activates cookies
 o Negotiate now works on auth and proxy simultanouesly
 o curl.h now includes a socklen_t definition for Win32 API build targets
 o support HTTP Digest nonces up to 1023 letters
 o resumed ftp upload no longer requires the read callback to return full
   buffers
 o no longer default-appends ;type= on FTP URLs thru proxies
 o SSL session id caching
 o POST with callback over proxy requiring NTLM or Digest

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

Other curl-related news:

 o TclCurl 7.17.1 => http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
 o Ruby Curl::Multi 0.1 => http://curl-multi.rubyforge.org/ 

New curl mirrors:

 o http://curl.gominet.net/ is new web mirror in Vizcaya, Portugal

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

 Dan Fandrich, Gisle Vanem, Toby Peterson, Yang Tse, Daniel Black,
 Robin Johnson, Michal Marek, Ates Goral, Andres Garcia, Rob Crittenden,
 Emil Romanus, Alessandro Vesely, Ray Pekowski, Spacen Jasset
 
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)