Curl and libcurl 7.8.1 is out! This is mostly a bugfix release.

Get curl 7.8.1 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 fixes:

 o the configure script now sets up socklen_t properly
 o added the -G option that converts -d posts to use GET requests
 o bugfix: CURLOPT_POST without postfields caused libcurl crash
 o bugfixed the URL parser for IPv6 IP addresses (RFC 2732)
 o corrected some minor size_t mixups in the code
 o rfc1876-style form posts no longer has any size-limit
 o bugfixed the redirected stderr feature
 o more test cases added
 o libcurl now verifies the CN name of server certificates when SSLing
 o curl -E supports file names with disk drive letters on windows
 o curl-config --libs now includes the path to the installed libcurl
 o file:// with "relative" paths now work like other tools/libs
 o curl builds under RISC OS and OpenVMS now
 o libcurl groks the NCSA httpd 1.5.x weirdo (non-standard) replies
 o curl_escape() no longer tries to skip already encoded data
 o progress callback minor bugfix
 o bugfixed the main transfer select() loop!
 o added CURLOPT_HTTPGET
 o corrected FTP range downloads
 o better treatment of cut off FTP transfers
 o corrected the libcurl shared library version number
 o corrected the configure --with-ssl option
 o multiple file download with resume works better
 o formpost with field names containing space works now
 o the ftp tests now run OK on IPv6 enabled hosts
 o verifying certificates bugfixed

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o Chris Double announced a libcurl interface for Dylan:
        http://dylanlibs.sourceforge.net/
 o Mark Hessling announced a libcurl interface for Rexx:
        http://rexxcurl.sourceforge.net/
 o Andrés García announced updates to the TclCurl interface:
        http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
 o Kjetil Jacobsen announced updates to the Python interface:
        http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
 o A new US based curl web site mirror:
        http://curl.sourceforge.net/

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

 Jörn Hartroth, Shawn Poulson, Salvador Dávila, Domenico Andreoli, David Odin,
 Mike Bytnar, Björn Stenberg, Anton Kalmykov, Nic Roets, Troy Engel, Tomasz
 Lacki, Linus Nielsen Feltzing, Frank Keeney, Pawel A. Gajda, Naveen Noel,
 Jonathan Hseu, Sergio Ballestrero, Andrew Francis, Nico Baggus, Stefan
 Ulrich, Heikki Korpela, Patrick Bihan-Faou, Dustin Boswell, S. Moonesamy,
 Peter Todd, David James, Sterling Hughes, Ramana Mokkapati, Arkadiusz
 Miskiewicz, Kevin Roth, Albert Chin, Brad

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

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/