RELEASE-NOTES   [plain text]


Curl and libcurl 7.13.1

 Public curl release number:               86
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 113
 Available command line options:           104
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     122
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        18
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         30

This release includes the following changes:

 o CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE set to "" is now activating the cookie engine
 o FTP code overhaul => multi interface much less blocking
 o Added CURLE_LOGIN_DENIED to be returned when curl is denied login to FTP
   servers

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o -# crash when more data than expected was retrieved
 o NTLM/krb4 buffer overflow fixed (CAN-2005-0490)
 o proxy auth bug when following redirects to another host
 o socket leak when local bind failed
 o HTTP POST with --anyauth picking NTLM
 o SSL problems when downloading exactly 16KB data
 o out of memory conditions preserve error codes better
 o a few crashes at out of memory
 o inflate buffer usage bugfix
 o better DICT protocol adherence
 o disable valgrind-checking while testing if libcurl is built shared
 o locale names in some date strings

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o libcurl-vb 1.0 http://sf.net/projects/libcurl-vb/
 o pycurl 7.13.0: http://pycurl.sf.net/
 o new german mirror: http://curl.mons-new-media.de
 o new US mirror: http://curl.islandofpoker.com

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

 Gisle Vanem, David Byron, Marty Kuhrt, Maruko, Eric Vergnaud, Christopher
 R. Palmer, Mike Dobbs, David in bug report #1124588, Ralph Mitchell,
 Rene Rebe, Dave Dribin, Dan Fandrich

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