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Curl and libcurl 7.15.1

 Public curl release number:               91
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 118
 Available command line options:           109
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     125
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        27
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         32
 Number of contributors:                   459

This release includes the following changes:

 o the libcurl.pc pkgconfig file now gets installed on make install
 o URL globbing now offers "range steps": [1-100:10]
 o LDAPv3 is now the preferred LDAP protocol version
 o --max-redirs and CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS set to 0 limits redirects
 o improved MSVC makefile

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER is now always filled in on errors
 o curl outputs error on bad --limit-rate units
 o fixed libcurl's use of poll() on cygwin
 o the GnuTLS code didn't support client certificates
 o TFTP over IPv6 works
 o no reverse lookups on IP addresses when ipv6-enabled
 o SSPI compatibility fix: using the proper DLLs
 o binary LDAP properties are now shown base64 encoded
 o Windows uploads from stdin using curl can now contain ctrl-Z bytes
 o -r [num] would produce an invalid HTTP Range: header
 o multi interface with multi IP hosts could leak socket descriptors
 o the GnuTLS code didn't handle rehandshakes
 o re-use of a dead FTP connection
 o name resolve error codes fixed for Windows builds
 o double WWW-Authenticate Digest headers are now handled
 o curl-config --vernum fixed

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o FTP-SSL is now RFC4217
 o CurlPas 2005-11-05 was released: http://curlpas.sf.net/
 o pycurl 7.15.0 was released http://pycurl.sf.net
 o New web mirrors:
   http://curl.triplemind.com/ located in Mannheim, Germany
   http://curl.nedmirror.nl located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
   http://curl.hoxt.com located in Florida, US

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

 Dave Dribin, Bradford Bruce, Temprimus, Ofer, Dima Barsky, Amol Pattekar, Jaz
 Fresh, tommink[at]post.pl, Gisle Vanem, Nis Jorgensen, Vilmos Nebehaj,
 Dmitry Bartsevich, David Lang, Eugene Kotlyarov, Jan Kunder, Yang Tse,
 Quagmire, Albert Chin, David Shaw

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