Curl and libcurl 7.11.0 has just been released. A minor-features-added
release.

The 78th public curl release. Release number 105 counted from the very
beginning.

As usual you find the source packages at http://curl.haxx.se/download.html or
on one of our many mirrors.

MD5 sums for the source packages are:

cf511e78eb12fbb1efc6c4e0ca4e5120 curl-7.11.0.tar.bz2
2e0f9c6161ef02cae9635df9ad1332f5 curl-7.11.0.tar.gz
484011d6af11575d63b8132228d0efc7 curl-7.11.0.zip

This release includes the following changes:

 o allows the URL to be set by a callback when using the multi interface
 o large file support was added. Use one of the new options: INFILESIZE_LARGE,
   RESUME_FROM_LARGE and MAXFILESIZE_LARGE
 o the new --ftp-pasv overrides a previous --ftpport
 o CURLOPT_FTPSSL and ftps:// now do ssl over FTP "The Right Way" (the curl
   tool now features the --ftp-ssl option)
 o The Windows DLLs are built with an added "resource file"
 o New LIBCURL_VERSION_* defines for easier checking version number
 o Included Mac OS X 'framework' makefile in the release archive
 o Removed the TRUE and FALSE #defines from the public curl header file
 o Added CURLOPT_NETRC_FILE

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o improved config file parsing for options with required parameters
 o using --trace with a bad file name could crash
 o release archive contains compressed help text
 o the win32 password prompting supports backspace
 o builds natively on AmigaOS (without unix emulation)
 o ftps:// now uses port 990 by default
 o the "configure --with-spnego" action was improved
 o fixed a rare follow-redirect problem
 o curl-config --feature now outputs AsynchDNS if enabled
 o occational re-use of freed-memory problem fixed
 o curl-config --libs now include the ares link directory
 o configure --enable-ares now accepts a given path
 o -lz no longer appear twice on the link line
 o more descriptive error message if the FTP response reader fails
 o curl-config --feature now shows 'AsynchDNS' when built with ares
 o VMS build up-to-date and clarified source code
 o resolve bug caused socks5 to fail
 o Content-Length: is ignored when getting chunked Transfer-Encoding
 o POST over proxy to https server failed
 o improved how libcurl deals with persistant connections over FTP when a
   transfer fails
 o accessing a proxy that requires Basic auth without password caused a hang
 o a free free-twice problem in the server certificate code
 o minor memory leak when using ranges on persistant connections
 o formpost parts sending files with .html extensions now use "Content-Type:
   text/html"
 o formpost parts now default to "Content-Type: application/octet-stream"
 o --progress-bar was slightly improved
 o Failing to connect to localhost, using the multi interface on Solaris
   showed a connect problem now fixed.
 o The generated ca-bundle.h file is now generated in the build dir, not the
   source dir
 o The FTP-EPSV response parser for the 229 code was fixed
 o curl finds the user's home dir slightly different and hopefully better on
   Windows
 o testcurl.sh can now be used to autotest daily tarballs
 o a couple of command line options now check that the underlying library
   actually supports the features before trying to enable them
 o uninitialized variable fix
 o better html versions of the man pages

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o pycURL 7.10.8 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net/
 o TclCurl 0.10.8 was released:
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
 o the Ferite curl binding was released: http://www.ferite.org/
 o stopped the curl.sourceforge.net mirror, it now redirects to curl.haxx.se
 o fresh new curl web mirrors:
   US Texas - http://curl.cyberservers.net
   US California - http://curl.mirrors.redwire.net
   Germany - http://curl.mirror.at.stealer.net
   Thailand - http://curl.siamu.ac.th
 o Dan Fandrich stepped forward and helps maintaining the download web page

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

 Kevin Roth, Troels Walsted Hansen, Matt Veenstra, Marty Kuhrt, Benjamin
 Gerard, Gisle Vanem, Ralph Mitchell, Sébastien Willemijns, Kang-Jin Lee,
 Peter Sylvester, Siddhartha Prakash Jain, Mathias Axelsson, Maciej
 W. Rozycki, Nicolas Croiset, Josh Kapell, Gaz Iqbal, Dave May, Markus
 Moeller, James Clancy, Giuseppe Attardi, swalkaus at yahoo.com, Steve Green,
 Marty Kuhrt, Dominick Meglio, Diego Casorran, David Byron, John McGowan,
 David J Meyer, Dan Fandrich, Pierre, Brian R Duffy, Luke Call, Vincent
 Bronner

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

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