Curl and libcurl 7.12.1

 Public curl release number:               82
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 109
 Available command line options:           96
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     120
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    36

This release includes the following changes:

 o added curl_easy_reset()
 o socks proxy support even when libcurl is built ipv6-enabled
 o read callbacks can stop the transfer by returning CURL_READFUNC_ABORT
 o libcurl-tutorial.3 is the new man page formerly known as libcurl-the-guide
 o additional SSL trace data might be sent to the debug callback using two new
   types: CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_IN and CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_OUT
 o multipart formposts can upload files larger than system memory
 o the curl tool continues with the next URL even if one transfer fails
 o FTP 3rd party transfer support - seven new setopt() options

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o HTTP Negotiate service name now provided in uppercase
 o no longer accepts any cookies with domain set to just a TLD
 o HTTP Digest fix for properties without quotes in the header
 o a bad Host: header case on re-used connections over proxy was fixed
 o a duplicate Host: header case on re-used connections was fixed
 o curl -o name#[num] now works when no globbing for [num] exists
 o the test suite runs fine with valgrind 2.1.x
 o negative Content-Length is now ignored
 o test 505 runs fine on windows now
 o curl_share_cleanup() crash fixed
 o --trace files now get the final info lines too
 o multi interface connects fine to multi-IP resolving hosts
 o --limit-rate works on Mac OS X (and other systems with bad poll()s)
 o cookies can now hold 4999 bytes of content
 o HTTP POST/PUT with NTLM/Digest/Negotiate to a URL returning 3XX
 o HTTPS POST/PUT over a proxy requiring NTLM/Digest/Negotiate works now
 o less restrictive libidn requirements, 0.4.1 or later is fine
 o fixed HTTP POST or PUT with Digest/Negotiate/NTLM selected but the server
   didn't require any authentication
 o win32 file:// transfer free memory bug
 o configure --disable-http builds a libcurl without HTTP support
 o CURLOPT_FILETIME had wrong type in curl.h, it expects a long argument
 o builds fine with Borland on Windows again
 o the msvc curllib.dsp now builds the libcurl.lib file again
 o builds fine on VMS again
 o builds fine on NetWare again
 o HTTP Digest authentication with proxies uses correct user name + password
 o now builds fine with lcc-win32

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o James Hu took over after Kevin Roth as maintainer of the curl package on
   cygwin. Many saludos to Kevin for a work well done during many years.
 o Gambas binding: http://gambas.sf.net
 o pycurl 7.12.0 was released http://pycurl.sf.net
 o wxWidgets binding: http://homepage.mac.com/codonnell/wxcurldav/
 o New Austrian curl web mirror: http://curl.gds.tuwien.ac.at
 o TclCurl 0.12.0 was released:
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
 o Ch binding: http://chcurl.sourceforge.net
 o New US curl web mirror: http://curl.109k.com
 o glib/GTK+ binding: http://atterer.net/glibcurl/
 o New French curl web mirror: http://curl.mirror.internet.tp

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

 Gisle Vanem, Vincent Bronner, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Chris Gaukroger,
 Günter Knauf, Marty Kuhrt, Kjetil Jacobsen, Steven Bazyl, Seshubabu Pasam,
 Luca Alteas, Jean-Louis Lemaire, David Byron, David Cohen, Rob Stanzel,
 Niels van Tongeren, Andrés García, Toby Peterson, Casey O'Donnell, Brian
 Akins, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Joel Chen, Dylan Salisbury, Enrico Scholz

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