Curl and libcurl 7.18.0

 Public curl releases:         103
 Command line options:         126
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   150
 Public functions in libcurl:  56
 Public web site mirrors:      43
 Known libcurl bindings:       36
 Contributors:                 597

This release includes the following changes:
 
 o --data-urlencode
 o CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE
 o --no-keepalive - now curl does connections with keep-alive enabled by
   default
 o --socks4a added (proxy type CURLPROXY_SOCKS4A for libcurl)
 o --socks5-hostname added (CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME for libcurl)
 o curl_easy_pause()
 o CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION and CURLOPT_SEEKDATA
 o --keepalive-time
 o curl --help output was re-ordered

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o curl-config --features and --protocols show the correct output when built
   with NSS, and also when SCP, SFTP and libz are not available
 o free problem in the curl tool for users with empty home dir
 o curl.h version 7.17.1 problem when building C++ apps with MSVC
 o SFTP and SCP use persistent connections
 o segfault on bad URL
 o variable wrapping when using absolutely huge send buffer sizes
 o variable wrapping when using debug callback and the HTTP request wasn't sent
   in one go
 o SSL connections with NSS done with the multi-interface
 o setting a share no longer activates cookies
 o Negotiate now works on auth and proxy simultanouesly
 o support HTTP Digest nonces up to 1023 letters
 o resumed ftp upload no longer requires the read callback to return full
   buffers
 o no longer default-appends ;type= on FTP URLs thru proxies
 o SSL session id caching
 o POST with callback over proxy requiring NTLM or Digest
 o Expect: 100-continue flaw on re-used connection with POSTs
 o build fix for MSVC 9.0 (VS2008)
 o Windows curl builds failed file truncation when retry downloading
 o SSL session ID cache memory leak
 o bad connection re-use check with environment variable-activated proxy use
 o --libcurl now generates a return statement as well
 o socklen_t is no longer used in the public includes
 o time zone offsets from -1400 to +1400 are now accepted by the date parser
 o allows more spaces in WWW/Proxy-Authenticate: headers
 o curl-config --libs skips /usr/lib64
 o range support for file:// transfers
 o libcurl hang with huge POST request and request-body read from callback
 o removed extra newlines from many error messages
 o improved pipelining
 o improved OOM handling for data url encoded HTTP POSTs when read from a file
 o test suite could pick wrong tool(s) if more than one existed in the PATH
 o curl_multi_fdset() failed to return socket while doing CONNECT over proxy
 o curl_multi_remove_handle() on a handle that is in used for a pipeline now
   break that pipeline

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

Other curl-related news:

 o TclCurl 7.17.1 => http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
 o Ruby Curl::Multi 0.1 => http://curl-multi.rubyforge.org/ 
 o curl-java 0.2.1 => http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/java/

New curl mirrors:

 o http://curl.gominet.net/ is new mirror in Vizcaya, Portugal
 o http://curl.very-clever.com/ is a new mirror in Nuremberg, Germany

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

 Dan Fandrich, Gisle Vanem, Toby Peterson, Yang Tse, Daniel Black,
 Robin Johnson, Michal Marek, Ates Goral, Andres Garcia, Rob Crittenden,
 Emil Romanus, Alessandro Vesely, Ray Pekowski, Spacen Jasset, Andrew Moise,
 Gilles Blanc, David Wright, Vikram Saxena, Mateusz Loskot, Gary Maxwell,
 Dmitry Kurochkin, Mohun Biswas, Richard Atterer, Maxim Perenesenko,
 Daniel Egger, Jeff Johnson, Nikitinskit Dmitriy, Georg Lippitsch, Eric Landes,
 Joe Malicki, Nathan Coulter, Lau Hang Kin, Judson Bishop
 
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
