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Curl and libcurl 7.14.1
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 Public curl release number:               89
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 116
 Available command line options:           108
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     123
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         31
This release includes the following changes:
 o GNU GSS support
 o --ignore-content-length and CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH added
 o negotiates data connection SSL earlier when doing FTPS with PASV
 o CURLOPT_COOKIELIST and CURLINFO_COOKIELIST
 o trailer support for chunked encoded data streams 
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 o -x/CURL_PROXY strings may now contain user+password
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 o --trace-time now outputs the full microsecond, all 6 digits

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o MSVC build problem with the DSP file
 o windows threaded resolver access violation with multi interface
 o CA cert verification with GnuTLS builds
 o handles expiry times in cookie files that go beyond 32 bits in size
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 o several client problems with files, such as doing -d @file when the file
   isn't readable now gets a warning displayed
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 o write callback abort didn't always "take"
 o the curl -z "bad syntax" warning is now hidden when -s is used
 o curl -d @nonexisting no longer makes a GET
 o minor debug callback data size
 o date parsing of dates including daylight savings time zone names
 o using NTLM over proxy with an FTP URL
 o curl-config --features now displays SSL when built with GnuTLS too
 o CURLOPT_HTTPGET, CURLOPT_POST and CURLOPT_HTTPPOST reset CURLOPT_NOBODY
 o corrected date parsing on Windows with auto-DST-adjust enabled
 o treats CONNECT 407 responses with bodies better during Digest/NTLM auth
 o improved strerror_r() API guessing when cross-compiling
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 o improved libcurl.m4
 o possible memory leak in windows name resolves
 o c-ares enabled build with mingw
 o proxy host set with numerical IPv6 address
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 o better treatment of binary zeroes in HTTP response headers
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 o fixed the notorious FTP server failure in the test suite
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 o better checking of text output in the test suite on windows
 o FTP servers' TYPE command response check made less strict
 o URL-without-slash as in http://somehost?data
 o strerror_r() configure check for HP-UX 10.20 (and others)
 o time parse work-around on HP-UX 10.20 since its gmtime_r() is broken

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

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 o cURLpp 0.5.2 was released at http://rrette.com/curlpp.html
 o Rexx/CURL 1.3 was released at http://rexxcurl.sf.net/
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 o http://curl.miscellaneousmirror.org is a new German curl mirror
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 o LuaCURL by Alexander Marinov at http://luacurl.luaforge.net/
 o http://curl.hostingzero.com/ is a new US curl mirror
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 o ocurl 0.2.1 was released at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocurl

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

 John McGowan, Georg Wicherski, Andres Garcia, Eric Cooper, Todd Kulesza,
 Tupone Alfredo, Gisle Vanem, David Shaw, Andrew Bushnell, Dan Fandrich,
 Adrian Schuur, Diego Casorran, Peteris Krumins, Jon Grubbs, Christopher
 R. Palmer, Mario Schroeder, Richard Clayton, James Bursa, Jeff Pohlmeyer,
 Norbert Novotny, Toby Peterson, Simon Josefsson, Igor Polyakov, Kevin Lussier
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)