Changes in 7.26.0 - May 24 2012

Changes:

• nss: the minimal supported version of NSS bumped to 3.12.x
• nss: human-readable names are now provided for NSS errors if available
• add a manual page for mk-ca-bundle
• added --post303 and the CURL_REDIR_POST_303 option for CURLOPT_POSTREDIR
• smtp: Add support for DIGEST-MD5 authentication
• pop3: Added support for additional pop3 commands
• curl: -w now supports 'filename_effective'

Bugfixes:

• nss: libcurl now uses NSS_InitContext() to prevent collisions if available
• URL parse: reject numerical IPv6 addresses outside brackets
• MD5: fix OOM memory leak
• OpenSSL cert: provide more details when cert check fails
• HTTP: empty chunked POST ended up in two zero size chunks
• fixed a regression when curl resolved to multiple addresses and the first isn't supported [7]
• -# progress meter: avoid superfluous updates and duplicate lines
• headers: surround GCC attribute names with double underscores
• PolarSSL: correct return code for CRL matches
• PolarSSL: include version number in version string
• PolarSSL: add support for asynchronous connect
• mk-ca-bundle: revert the LWP usage
• IPv6 cookie domain: get rid of the first bracket before the second
• connect.c: return changed to CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT when opensocket fails
• OpenSSL: Made cert hostname check conform to RFC 6125
• HTTP: reset expected DL/UL sizes on redirects
• CMake: fix Windows LDAP/LDAPS option handling
• CMake: fix MS Visual Studio x64 unsigned long long literal suffix
• configure: update detection logic of getaddrinfo() thread-safeness
• configure: check for gethostbyname in the watt lib
• curl-config.1: fix curl-config usage in example
• smtp: Fixed non-escaping of dot character at beginning of line
• MakefileBuild.vc: use the correct IDN variable
• autoconf: improve handling of versioned symbols
• curl.1: clarify -x usage
• curl: shorten user-agent
• smtp: issue with the multi-interface always sending postdata
• compile error with GnuTLS+Nettle fixed
• winbuild: fix IPv6 enabled build

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