RELEASE-NOTES

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 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 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, 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 for libcurl: http://gambas.sf.net/
 o pycurl 7.12.0 was released http://pycurl.sf.net/

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,
 Gnter Knauf, Marty Kuhrt, Kjetil Jacobsen, Steven Bazyl, Seshubabu Pasam,
 Luca Alteas, Jean-Louis Lemaire, David Byron, David Cohen, Rob Stanzel

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