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Curl and libcurl 7.27.0

  Public curl releases: 128
  Command line options: 152
  curl_easy_setopt() options: 199
  Public functions in libcurl: 58
  Known libcurl bindings: 39
  Contributors: 953

This release includes the following changes:

  o nss: use human-readable error messages provided by NSS
  o added --metalink for metalink download support [5]
  o pop3: Added support for sasl plain text authentication
  o pop3: Added support for sasl login authentication
  o pop3: Added support for sasl ntlm authentication
  o pop3: Added support for sasl cram-md5 authentication
  o pop3: Added support for sasl digest-md5 authentication
  o pop3: Added support for apop authentication
  o Added support for Schannel (Native Windows) SSL/TLS encryption [2]
  o Added support for Darwin SSL (Native Mac OS X and iOS) [6]
  o http: print reason phrase from HTTP status line on error [8]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

  o pop3: Fixed the issue of having to supply the user name for all requests
  o configure: fix LDAPS disabling related misplaced closing parenthesis
  o cmdline: made -D option work with -O and -J
  o configure: Fix libcurl.pc and curl-config generation for static MingW*
    cross builds
  o ssl: fix duplicated SSL handshake with multi interface and proxy [1]
  o winbuild: Fix Makefile.vc ignoring USE_IPV6 and USE_IDN flags
  o OpenSSL: support longer certificate subject names [3]
  o openldap: OOM fixes
  o log2changes.pl: fix the Version output
  o lib554.c: use curl_formadd() properly [4]
  o urldata.h: fix cyassl build clash with wincrypt.h
  o cookies: changed the URL in the cookiejar headers [7]
  o http-proxy: keep CONNECT connections alive (for NTLM)
  o NTLM SSPI: fixed to work with unicode user names and passwords
  o OOM fix in the curl tool when cloning cmdline options
  o fixed some examples to use curl_global_init() properly
  o cmdline: stricter numerical option parser
  o HTTP HEAD: don't force-close after response-headers
  o test231: fix wrong -C use
  o docs: switch to proper UTF-8 for text file encoding
  o keepalive: DragonFly uses milliseconds [9]
  o HTTP Digest: Client's "qop" value should not be quoted
  o make distclean works again

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

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

  Anthony Bryan, Guenter Knauf, Kamil Dudka, Steve Holme, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa,
  Yang Tse, Gokhan Sengun, Marc Hoersken, Ghennadi Procopciuc, Gisle Vanem,
  Mark Salisbury, Anthony G. Basile, Enrico Scholz, Robert B. Harris,
  Neil Bowers, Marcel Raad, Christian Hägele, Philip Craig, Nick Zitzmann,
  Eelco Dolstra, Anton Yabchinskiy, Santhana Todatry, John Marino

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

  [1] = https://bugzilla.redhat.com/788526
  [2] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/06/12/schannel-support-in-libcurl/
  [3] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3533045
  [4] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-06/0001.html
  [5] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/06/03/curling-the-metalink/
  [6] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/06/28/darwin-native-ssl-for-curl/
  [7] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/07/08/curls-new-http-cookies-docs/
  [8] = https://bugzilla.redhat.com/676596
  [9] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3546257

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Received on 2012-07-27