Changes in 7.16.3 - June 25 2007

Changes:

• added curl_multi_socket_action()
• deprecated curl_multi_socket()
• uses less memory in non-pipelined use cases
• CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES matched transfers assume HTTP 1.0 compliance
• more than one test harness can run at the same time without conflict
• SFTP now supports quote commands before a transfer
• CURLMOPT_MAXCONNECTS added to curl_multi_setopt()
• upload resume works for file:// URLs
• asynchronous name resolves now require c-ares 1.4.0 or later
• added SOCKS test cases
• CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS and --ftp-create-dirs now work for SFTP operations as well

Bugfixes:

• if2up too long interface name memory leak
• test case 534 started to fail 2007-04-13 due to the existence of a new host on the net with the same silly domain the test was using for a host which was supposed not to exist.
• test suite SSL certificate works better with newer stunnel
• internal progress meter update frequency back to once per second
• avoid some unnecessary calls to function gettimeofday
• a double-free in the SSL-layer
• GnuTLS free of NULL credentials
• NSS-fix for closing down SSL
• bad warning from configure when gnutls was selected
• compilation on VMS 64-bit mode
• SCP/SFTP downloads could hang on the last bytes of a transfer
• curl_easy_duphandle() crash
• curl -V / curl_version*() works even when GnuTLS is used on a system without a good random source
• curl_multi_socket() not "noticing" newly added handles
• lack of Content-Length and chunked encoding now requires HTTP 1.1 as well to be treated as without response body
• connection cache growth in multi handles
• better handling of out of memory conditions
• overwriting an uploaded file with sftp now truncates it first
• SFTP quote commands chmod, chown, chgrp can now set a value of 0
• TFTP connect timouts less than 5 seconds
• improved curl -w for TFTP transfers
• memory leak when failed OpenSSL certificate CN field checking
• memory leak when OpenSSL failed PKCS #12 parsing
• FTP-SSL when built with NSS
• out-of-boundary write in Curl_select()
• -s/--silent can now be used to toggle off the silence again
• builds fine on 64bit HP-UX
• multi interface HTTP CONNECT glitch
• list FTP root directories when login dir is not root
• no longer slows down when getting very many URLs on the same command line
• lock share before decreasing dirty counter
• no-body FTP requests on re-used connections

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