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ANNOUNCE: curl and libcurl 7.10.6

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:19:18 +0200 (CEST)

Curl and libcurl 7.10.6 is out! A minor-features-added release.

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

Get curl from your favorite mirror by using this service:
http://curl.haxx.se/latest.cgi

Make sure the files haven't been tampered with by the time they land in your
filesystem by using these MD5 sums:

ea824adebdbcff83c5919d1c3157fac3 curl-7.10.6.tar.gz
2f7414e8b15023c974824429d86fdecc curl-7.10.6.tar.bz2
e8c9bd3492a47afe8faab1d991b4e502 curl-7.10.6.zip

This release includes the following changes:

 o CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION allows a custom callback for SSL connections
 o multiple patches let curl build and run on DOS
 o libcurl now deals with spaces in Location: redirects and URLifies them
 o curl --version shows more detailed info
 o curl_version_info() now returns info on NTLM, GSS-Negotiate and Debug
 o curl_version() includes "GSS" in the string if built with GSSAPI available
 o Pick-best-authentication option added (--anyauth, using the
   CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH set to CURLAUTH_ANY)
 o NTLM authentication support (--ntlm and CURLAUTH_NTLM)
 o GSS-Negotiate authentication support (--negotiate and CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE)
 o Digest authentication support added (--digest and CURLAUTH_DIGEST)
 o Allow curl to switch (back) to Basic authentication (--basic)
 o libcurl supports name and password in proxy environment variables

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o double slash after the host name on a FTP URL again points out the root dir
 o obscure and rare DNS cache problem was fixed
 o multiple FTP connections to the same host with different user names didn't
   work properly
 o no more CWD commands without arguments for ftp connections
 o curl no longer uses setvbuf() due to portability problems
 o VMS build fixes
 o the curl tool has the -M manual compressed internally if built with libz
 o url globbing syntax error could cause segfault
 o Huge (>40-60KB) GET requests over HTTPS failed.
 o Content-Length now overrides socket-closed as a means of knowing when the
   response body is complete.
 o --progress-bar takes the initial size into account when doing resumed
   downloads
 o work around SSL bugs better
 o libcurl typically issues POST requests with less send() calls
 o better main makefile
 o external headers improved portability
 o Listing FTP directories without contents could leak a socket
 o Getting HTTP contents in one line without headers failed
 o bugfixed the socks5-proxy usage (twice)
 o h_aliases name-lookup rare crash fixed
 o improved curl -M output
 o curl_unescape() now only unescapes valid %HH codes

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o Andrés García released TclCurl 0.10.5
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/

 o Troy Engel, our long-time friend and RPM packager of curl, is considering
   to abandon Redhat Linux and might thus soon cease to provide RPM packages
   of curl. If you feel you're up to shouldering his burden, step forward and
   make yourself known!

 o The CVS respository has moved and is now hosted by php.net. Read all
   details here: http://curl.haxx.se/cvs.html

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

 David Balazic, Gisle Vanem, Martin Michlmayr, David Remahl, Rudy Koento,
 Ricardo Cadime, Jis Joy, Chris Lewis, Andreas Ley, Rich Gray, Serge Semashko,
 David Byron, Richard Bramante, David Orrell, Daniel Kouril, Dan Fandrich,
 Mathias Axelsson, Cris Bailiff, Marty Kuhrt, Ralph Mitchell, Eric Glass,
 David Byron, Peter Sylvester, Dan Grayson, Rick Richardson, Doug Kaufman,
 Dan Winship, David Gardner, Juan F. Codagnone, Tracy Boehrer, Andrés García,
 Henry Bland, François Pons

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

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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Received on 2003-07-28