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[RELEASE] curl and libcurl 7.42.0 is out!

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 08:06:55 +0200 (CEST)

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce another curl release. Version 7.42.0 is uploaded and
available from http://curl.haxx.se/ as usual.

This time with no less than 4 associated security advisories. I will also be
sending them out separately following this announcement.

Curl and libcurl 7.42.0

  Public curl releases: 145
  Command line options: 173
  curl_easy_setopt() options: 216
  Public functions in libcurl: 58
  Contributors: 1265

This release includes the following changes:

  o openssl: show the cipher selection to use in verbose text
  o gtls: implement CURLOPT_CERTINFO
  o add CURLOPT_SSL_FALSESTART option (darwinssl and NSS)
  o curl: add --false-start option
  o add CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS
  o curl: add --path-as-is option
  o curl: create output file on successful download of an empty file [21]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

  o ConnectionExists: for NTLM re-use, require credentials to match [26]
  o cookie: cookie parser out of boundary memory access [27]
  o fix_hostname: zero length host name caused -1 index offset [28]
  o http_done: close Negotiate connections when done [29]
  o sws: timeout idle CONNECT connections
  o nss: improve error handling in Curl_nss_random()
  o nss: do not skip Curl_nss_seed() if data is NULL
  o curl-config.in: eliminate double quotes around CURL_CA_BUNDLE
  o http2: move lots of verbose output to be debug-only
  o dist: add extern-scan.pl to the tarball
  o http2: return recv error on unexpected EOF [1]
  o build: Use default RandomizedBaseAddress directive in VC9+ project files
  o build: Removed DataExecutionPrevention directive from VC9+ project files
  o tool: Updated the warnf() function to use the GlobalConfig structure
  o http2: Return error if stream was closed with other than NO_ERROR
  o mprintf.h: remove #ifdef CURLDEBUG
  o libtest: fixed linker errors on msvc [6]
  o tool: use ENABLE_CURLX_PRINTF instead of _MPRINTF_REPLACE
  o curl.1: fix "The the" typo
  o cmake: handle build definitions CURLDEBUG/DEBUGBUILD
  o openssl: remove all uses of USE_SSLEAY
  o multi: fix memory-leak on timeout (regression) [4]
  o curl_easy_setopt.3: added CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS
  o metalink: add some error checks [3]
  o TLS: make it possible to enable ALPN/NPN without HTTP/2
  o http2: use CURL_HTTP_VERSION_* symbols instead of NPN_*
  o conncontrol: only log changes to the connection bit
  o multi: fix *getsock() with CONNECT [2]
  o symbols.pl: handle '-' in the deprecated field [5]
  o MacOSX-Framework: use @rpath instead of @executable_path [7]
  o GnuTLS: add support for CURLOPT_CAPATH
  o GnuTLS: print negotiated TLS version and full cipher suite name
  o GnuTLS: don't print double newline after certificate dates
  o memanalyze.pl: handle free(NULL)
  o proxy: re-use proxy connections (regression) [8]
  o mk-ca-bundle: Don't report SHA1 numbers with "-q"
  o http: always send Host: header as first header [9]
  o openssl: sort ciphers to use based on strength [10]
  o openssl: use colons properly in the ciphers list
  o http2: detect premature close without data transfered [11]
  o hostip: Fix signal race in Curl_resolv_timeout
  o closesocket: call multi socket cb on close even with custom close [12]
  o mksymbolsmanpage.pl: use std header and generate better nroff header
  o connect: Fix happy eyeballs logic for IPv4-only builds [13]
  o curl_easy_perform.3: remove superfluous close brace from example
  o HTTP: don't use Expect: headers when on HTTP/2 [14]
  o Curl_sh_entry: remove unused 'timestamp'
  o docs/libcurl: makefile portability fix
  o mkhelp: Remove trailing carriage return from every line of input
  o nss: explicitly tell NSS to disable NPN/ALPN when libcurl disables it
  o curl_easy_setopt.3: added a few missing options
  o metalink: fix resource leak in OOM
  o axtls: version 1.5.2 now requires that config.h be manually included
  o HTTP: don't switch to HTTP/2 from 1.1 until we get the 101
  o cyassl: detect the library as renamed wolfssl
  o CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER.3: add a "SECURITY CONCERNS" section
  o CURLOPT_URL.3: Added "SECURITY CONCERNS
  o openssl: try to avoid accessing OCSP structs when possible
  o test938: added missing closing tags
  o testcurl: Allow '=' in values given on command line
  o tests/certs: added make target to rebuild certificates
  o tests/certs: rebuild certificates with modified key usage bits
  o gtls: avoid uninitialized variable
  o gtls: dereferencing NULL pointer
  o gtls: add check of return code
  o test1513: eliminated race condition in test run
  o dict: rename byte to avoid compiler shadowed declaration warning
  o curl_easy_recv/send: make them work with the multi interface
  o vtls: fix compile with --disable-crypto-auth but with SSL
  o openssl: adapt to ASN1/X509 things gone opaque in 1.1
  o openssl: verifystatus: only use the OCSP work-around <= 1.0.2a [15]
  o curl_memory: make curl_memory.h the second-last header file loaded
  o testcurl.pl: add the --notes option to supply more info about a build
  o cyassl: If wolfSSL then identify as such in version string
  o cyassl: Check for invalid length parameter in Curl_cyassl_random
  o cyassl: default to highest possible TLS version
  o Curl_ssl_md5sum: return CURLcode (fixes OOM)
  o polarssl: remove dead code
  o polarssl: called mbedTLS in 1.3.10 and later
  o globbing: fix step parsing for character globbing ranges
  o globbing: fix url number calculation when using range with step
  o multi: on a request completion, check all CONNECT_PEND transfers [16]
  o build: link curl to openssl libraries when openssl support is enabled
  o url: Don't accept CURLOPT_SSLVERSION unless USE_SSL is defined
  o vtls: Don't accept unknown CURLOPT_SSLVERSION values
  o build: Fix libcurl.sln erroneous mixed configurations
  o cyassl: remove undefined reference to CyaSSL_no_filesystem_verify
  o cyassl: add SSL context callback support for CyaSSL
  o tool: only set SSL options if SSL is enabled
  o multi: remove_handle: move pending connections [17]
  o configure: Use KRB5CONFIG for krb5-config [18]
  o axtls: add timeout within Curl_axtls_connect
  o CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES.3: Mainly SHOUTcast servers use "ICY 200"
  o cyassl: Fix library initialization return value
  o cookie: handle spaces after the name in Set-Cookie [19]
  o http2: Fix missing nghttp2_session_send call in Curl_http2_switched [20]
  o cyassl: Fix certificate load check
  o build-openssl.bat: Fix mixed line endings
  o checksrc.bat: Check lib\vtls source
  o DNS: fix refreshing of obsolete dns cache entries
  o CURLOPT_RESOLVE: actually implement removals
  o checksrc.bat: quotes to support an SRC_DIR with spaces
  o cyassl: Remove 'Connecting to' message from cyassl_connect_step2
  o cyassl: Use CYASSL_MAX_ERROR_SZ for error buffer size
  o lib/transfer.c: Remove factor of 8 from sleep time calculation
  o lib/makefile.m32: add missing libs to build libcurl.dll
  o build: Generate source prerequisites for Visual Studio in generate.bat
  o cyassl: Include the CyaSSL build config
  o firefox-db2pem: fix wildcard to find Firefox default profile
  o BUGS: refer to the github issue tracker now as primary
  o vtls_openssl: improve several certificate error messages
  o cyassl: Add support for TLS extension SNI
  o parsecfg: do not continue past a zero termination
  o configure --with-nss=PATH: query pkg-config if available [22]
  o configure --with-nss: drop redundant if statement
  o cyassl: Fix include order [23]
  o HTTP: fix PUT regression with Negotiate [24]
  o curl_version_info.3: fixed the 'protocols' variable type [25]

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:

   Alessandro Ghedini, Alexander Pepper, Ben Darnell, Brad King,
   Charles Romestant, Christian Weisgerber, Dagobert Michelsen, Dan Fandrich,
   Daniel Stenberg, Da-Yoon Chung, Emil Lerner, Fabian Keil, Frank Gevaerts,
   Frank Meier, Hanno Böck, Isaac Boukris, Jeroen Ooms, Jiri Dvorak,
   John Marshall, Jonathan Cardoso Machado, Jon Seymour, Kamil Dudka,
   Kyle L. Huff, Markus Elfring, Matthew Hall, Michael Osipov,
   Michael Stapelberg, Michel Promonet, Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Nick Zitzmann,
   Paras Sethia, Patrick Monnerat, Paul Howarth, Peter Laser, Rainer Canavan,
   Ray Satiro, Richard Moore, Sergei Nikulov, Stefan Bühler, Stefan Eissing,
   Steve Havelka, Steve Holme, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, Thomas Ruecker,
   Tobias Stoeckmann, Viktor Szakáts, Yamada Yasuharu,
   (47 contributors)

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

  [1] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1487
  [2] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-01/0170.html
  [3] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/150
  [4] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/147
  [5] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-03/0052.html
  [6] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/144
  [7] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/157
  [8] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1492
  [9] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1491
  [10] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1487
  [11] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/166
  [12] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1493
  [13] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/168
  [14] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/169
  [15] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-03/0205.html
  [16] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1465
  [17] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1465
  [18] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1486
  [19] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/195
  [20] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/192
  [21] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/183
  [22] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/171
  [23] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-04/0069.html
  [24] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/223
  [25] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/225
  [26] = http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20150422A.html
  [27] = http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20150422C.html
  [28] = http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20150422D.html
  [29] = http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20150422B.html

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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