Changes in 7.27.0 - July 27 2012

Changes:

• nss: use human-readable error messages provided by NSS
• added --metalink for metalink download support
• pop3: Added support for sasl plain text authentication
• pop3: Added support for sasl login authentication
• pop3: Added support for sasl ntlm authentication
• pop3: Added support for sasl cram-md5 authentication
• pop3: Added support for sasl digest-md5 authentication
• pop3: Added support for apop authentication
• Added support for Schannel (Native Windows) SSL/TLS encryption
• Added support for Darwin SSL (Native Mac OS X and iOS)
• http: print reason phrase from HTTP status line on error

Bugfixes:

• pop3: Fixed the issue of having to supply the username for all requests
• configure: fix LDAPS disabling related misplaced closing parenthesis
• cmdline: made -D option work with -O and -J
• configure: Fix libcurl.pc and curl-config generation for static MingW* cross builds
• ssl: fix duplicated SSL handshake with multi interface and proxy
• winbuild: Fix Makefile.vc ignoring USE_IPV6 and USE_IDN flags
• OpenSSL: support longer certificate subject names
• openldap: OOM fixes
• log2changes.pl: fix the Version output
• lib554.c: use curl_formadd() properly
• urldata.h: fix cyassl build clash with wincrypt.h
• cookies: changed the URL in the cookiejar headers
• http-proxy: keep CONNECT connections alive (for NTLM)
• NTLM SSPI: fixed to work with unicode usernames and passwords
• OOM fix in the curl tool when cloning cmdline options
• fixed some examples to use curl_global_init() properly
• cmdline: stricter numerical option parser
• HTTP HEAD: don't force-close after response-headers
• test231: fix wrong -C use
• docs: switch to proper UTF-8 for text file encoding
• keepalive: DragonFly uses milliseconds
• HTTP Digest: Client's "qop" value should not be quoted
• make distclean works again

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