Curl and libcurl 7.8 is out! This is minor-features-added release.

All application and interface authors using libcurl should study the CHANGES
file in detail!

Get curl 7.8 from http://curl.haxx.se/download.html. As usual, allow some time
before the popular binary archives are up-to-date with this.

This release includes the following additions:

 o curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() were added to the library

This release includes the following fixes:

 o CURLOPT_MUTE is no longer used by libcurl
 o no more strtok() in libcurl (fixes multi-thread problems)
 o -# can now be redirected with --stderr
 o 'curl-config --vernum' now outputs the "raw" hexadecimal version number
 o strlcat() is now renamed to use the curl namepace and not pollute the
   general one
 o resumed file transfers on re-used connections work
 o curl built with IPv6 support now can do IPv4 FTP PORT operations again
 o ftps transfers work
 o https and ftps test cases added to the test suite (depend on stunnel for
   ssl)
 o libcurl can be told to fail if the peer's certificate can't be verified
 o libcurl now returns successful when a file already have been completely
   transfered
 o better header parsing allows white spaces in headers
 o location: header parsing bug fixes
 o persistent multiple FTP transfers got the directories wrong
 o getting info with -I from ftp servers that doesn't support SIZE previously
   failed
 o configure sets slightly better link and compiler flags

Other news since last, not included in this release, but curl-related:

 o A Python interface to libcurl was announced by Kjetil Jacobsen:
        http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/

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

 Jörn Hartroth, Sander Gates, Rodney Simmons, Ingo Wilken, Cris Bailiff,
 Frederic Lepied, Jukka Pihl, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, Pawel A. Gajda, Colm
 Buckley, Sterling Hughes, Albert Chin, Domenico Andreoli, Arkadiusz
 Miskiewicz, Andrés García, T. Bharath, Mettgut Jamalla, SDavila

        Thanks!

-- 
     Daniel Stenberg -- curl dude -- http://curl.haxx.se/