Hello curlers!

I'm happy to announce curl and libcurl 7.17.0! This time with a small set of
changes done that made us bump the minor number.

Download your fresh copy here: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

Curl and libcurl 7.17.0

  Public curl release number: 101
  Releases counted from the very beginning: 127
  Available command line options: 118
  Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 143
  Number of public functions in libcurl: 55
  Amount of public web site mirrors: 42
  Number of known libcurl bindings: 36
  Number of contributors: 572

This release includes the following changes:

  o support for OS/400 Secure Sockets Layer library
  o curl_easy_setopt() now allocates strings passed to it
  o SCP and SFTP support now requires libssh2 0.16 or later
  o LDAP libraries are now linked "regularly" and not with dlopen
  o HTTP transfers have the download size info "available" earlier
  o FTP transfers have the download size info "available" earlier
  o builds and runs on OS/400
  o several error codes and options were marked as obsolete and subject to
    future removal (set CURL_NO_OLDIES to see if your application is using them)
  o SFTP errors can return more specific error codes

This release includes the following bugfixes:

  o test cases 31, 46, 61, 506, 517 now work in time zones that use leap seconds
  o problem with closed proxy connection during HTTP CONNECT auth negotiation
  o transfer-encoding skipping didn't ignore the 407 response bodies properly
  o CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1
  o CONNECT endless loop
  o krb5 support builds with Heimdal
  o added returned error string for connection refused case
  o re-use of dead FTP control connections
  o login to FTP servers that don't require (nor understand) PASS after the
    USER command
  o bad free of memory from libssh2
  o the SFTP PWD command works
  o HTTP Digest auth on a re-used connection
  o FTPS data connection close
  o AIX 4 and 5 get to use non-blocking sockets
  o small POST with NTLM
  o resumed file:// transfers
  o CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE are 64 bit
    "clean"
  o memory leak when handling compressed data streams from broken servers
  o no NTLM unicode response
  o resume HTTP PUT using Digest authentication
  o FTP NOBODY requests on directories sent "SIZE (null)"
  o FTP NOBODY request on file crash
  o excessively long FTP server responses and response lines
  o file:// upload then ftp:// upload crash
  o TFTP error 0 is no longer treated as success
  o uploading empty file over FTP on re-used connection
  o superfluous CWD command on re-used FTP connections without subdirs used

This release includes the following known bugs:

  o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)

Other curl-related news:

  o pycurl 7.16.4 was released http://pycurl.sf.net
  o TclCurl 7.16.4 was released
    http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
  o curlpp 0.7.1 was released
    http://rrette.com/textpattern/index.php?s=cURLpp
  o A brand new binding for SP-Forth was written by ygrek:
    http://www.forth.org.ru/~ac/lib/lin/curl/

New curl mirrors:

  o http://curl.freeby.pctools.cl is a new mirror in Santiago, Chile
  o http://curl.site2nd.org is a new mirror in Dallas, Texas, USA
  o http://curl.cheap.co.il is a new mirror in Tel-Aviv, Israel
  o http://curl.digimirror.nl is a new mirror in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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

  Dan Fandrich, Song Ma, Daniel Black, Giancarlo Formicuccia, Shmulik Regev,
  Daniel Cater, Colin Hogben, Jofell Gallardo, Daniel Johnson,
  Ralf S. Engelschall, James Housley, Chris Flerackers, Patrick Monnerat,
  Jayesh A Shah, Greg Zavertnik, Peter O'Gorman, Greg Morse, Dmitriy Sergeyev,
  Scott Cantor, Allen Pulsifer, Andrew Wansink, Robson Braga Araujo,
  Christian Vogt

         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
Received on 2007-09-13