RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.14.0

 Public curl release number:               88
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 115
 Available command line options:           107
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     122
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        23
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         31
 Number of contributors:                   437

This release includes the following changes:

 o modified default HTTP request headers
 o curl --trace-time added for time stamping trace logs
 o curl now respects the SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_PATH environment variables
 o more search paths for curl's default .curlrc config file check
 o GnuTLS support, use configure --with-gnutls. Work on this was sponsored
   by The Written Word.

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o uses select() instead of poll() even on Mac OS X 10.4
 o reconnected proxy use with NTLM auth on the same handle
 o warns about bad -z date syntax
 o docs/THANKS now contains all known contributors
 o builds out-of-the-box on (presumably ipv6-enabled) AIX 4.3 hosts
 o curl --head could wrongly complain on bad chunked-encoding
 o --interface SIGSEGVed on a bad address
 o kill the HTTPS server better when stopping the test suite
 o builds fine with VS2005 on x64
 o auth fix for HTTP redirects and .netrc usage
 o FTP uploads show the progress meter easier
 o MSVC makefile fixes for static libcurl builds
 o configure fix for static libcurl build on Windows
 o --retry-delay
 o POST with read callback now uses Expect: 100-continue
 o CURLOPT_PORT didn't actually use the set port number
 o HTTP 304 response with Content-Length: header
 o time-conditioned FTP uploads

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o http://curl.mirroring.de/ is a new german curl mirror
 o pycurl 7.13.2: http://pycurl.sf.net/
 o TclCurl 0.13.2: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
 o http://curl.webhosting76.com/ is a new US curl mirror
 o http://curl.meulie.net/ is a new Canadian curl mirror

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

 Christophe Legry, Cory Nelson, Gisle Vanem, Dan Fandrich, Toshiyuki Maezawa,
 Olivier, Andres Garcia, Dave Dribin, Alex Suykov, Cory Nelson, Fred New,
 Paul Moore, Alexander Zhuravlev, Bryan Henderson, Jeremy Brown, Allan,
 Grigory Entin

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