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Curl and libcurl 7.14.1

 Public curl release number:               89
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 116
 Available command line options:           107
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     122
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        24
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         31
 Number of contributors:                   437

This release includes the following changes:

 o trailer support for chunked encoded data streams 
 o -x/CURL_PROXY strings may now contain user+password
 o --trace-time now outputs the full microsecond, all 6 digits

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o corrected date parsing on Windows with auto-DST-adjust enabled
 o treats CONNECT 407 responses with bodies better during Digest/NTLM auth
 o improved strerror_r() API guessing when cross-compiling
 o debug builds work on Tru64
 o improved libcurl.m4
 o possible memory leak in windows name resolves
 o c-ares enabled build with mingw
 o proxy host set with numerical IPv6 address
 o better treatment of binary zeroes in HTTP response headers
 o fixed the notorius FTP server failure in the test suite
 o better checking of text output in the test suite on windows
 o FTP servers' TYPE command response check made less strict
 o URL-without-slash as in http://somehost?data
 o strerror_r() configure check for HP-UX 10.20 (and others)
 o time parse work-around on HP-UX 10.20 since its gmtime_r() is broken

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o Rexx/CURL 1.3 was released at http://rexxcurl.sf.net/
 o http://curl.miscellaneousmirror.org is a new German curl mirror
 o LuaCURL by Alexander Marinov at http://luacurl.luaforge.net/

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

 John McGowan, Georg Wicherski, Andres Garcia, Eric Cooper, Todd Kulesza,
 Tupone Alfredo, Gisle Vanem, David Shaw, Andrew Bushnell, Dan Fandrich,
 Adrian Schuur

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