Hi friends!

I'm very happy to announce another bugfix release. Get the source package from
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Curl and libcurl 7.12.2

  Public curl release number: 83
  Releases counted from the very beginning: 110
  Available command line options: 96
  Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 121
  Number of public functions in libcurl: 36
  Amount of public web site mirrors: 12
  Number of known libcurl bindings: 27

This release includes the following changes:

  o the IDN code now verifies that only TLD-legitmate letters are used in the
    name or a warning is displayed (when verbose is enabled)
  o provides error texts for IDN errors
  o file upload parts in formposts now get their directory names cut off
  o added CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO
  o added CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH to allow ftp connects to attempt "AUTH TLS" instead
    before "AUTH SSL"
  o curl_getdate() completely rewritten: may affect rare curl -z use cases

This release includes the following bugfixes:

  o CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS works for third party transfers
  o memory leak for cookies received with max-age set
  o potential memory leaks in the window name resolver
  o URLs with ?-letters in the user name or password fields
  o libcurl error message is now provided when send() fails
  o no more SIGPIPE on Mac OS X and other SO_NOSIGPIPE-supporting platforms
  o HTTP resume was refused if redirected
  o configure's gethostbyname check when both nsl and socket libs are required
  o configure --with-libidn now checks the given path before defaults
  o a race condition sometimes resulting in CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST in the
    windows threaded name resolver code
  o isspace() invokes with negative values in the cookie code
  o a case of read-already-freed-data when CURLOPT_VERBOSE is used and a (very)
    persistent connection
  o now includes descriptive error messages for IDN errors
  o more forgivning PASS response code check for better working with proftpd
  o curl/multi.h works better included in winsock-using apps
  o curl_easy_reset() no longer enables the progress meter
  o build fix for SSL disabled curl with SSL Engine support present
  o configure --with-ssl=PATH now ignores pkg-config path info
  o CURLOPT_SSLENGINE can be set to NULL even if no engine support is available
  o LDAP crash when more than one record was received
  o connect failures properly stores an error message in the errorbuffer
  o Rare Location:-following problem with bad original URL
  o -F can now add Content-Type on non-file sections
  o double Host: header when following Location: with replaced Host:
  o curl_multi_add_handle() return code
  o "Proxy-Connection: close" is now understood and properly dealt with
  o curl_getdate() crash
  o downloading empty files now calls the write callback properly
  o no reverse DNS lookups for ip-only addresses with ipv6-enabled libcurl
  o file handler leak when getting an empty file:// URL
  o libcurl works better multi-threaded on AIX (when built with xlc)
  o cookies over proxy didn't match the path properly
  o MSVC makefile fixes to build better
  o FTP response 530 on 'PASS' now sends back a better error message

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

  o AdacURL version 7.12.1 http://www.almroth.com/adacurl/index.html
  o pycurl version 7.12.1 http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
  o tclcurl version 0.12.1
    http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
  o libcurl.NET was announced: http://www.seasideresearch.com/downloads.html
  o Get your fresh Mozilla-extracted ca cert bundle here:
    http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html

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

  Casey O'Donnell, Roland Krikava, Alex, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Kjetil
  Jacobsen, Ling Thio, Roman Koifman, Harshal Pradhan, Jonas Forsman, David
  Tarendash, Daniel at touchtunes, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Andreas Rieke,
  Jean-Claude Chauve, Dan Fandrich, Peter Sylvester, "Mekonikum", Jean-Philippe
  Barrette-LaPierre, Günter Knauf, Larry Campbell, Fedor Karpelevitch,
  Aleksandar Milivojevic, Gisle Vanem, Chris "Bob Bob", Chih-Chung Chang, Andy
  Cedilnik, Alan Pinstein, Eric Vergnaud, Traian Nicolescu, runekl at
  opoint.com

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

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