RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.15.2

 Public curl release number:               92
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 119
 Available command line options:           109
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     125
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        28
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         32
 Number of contributors:                   474

This release includes the following changes:

 o Gopher is now officially abandoned as a protocol (lib)curl tries to support.
 o curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() are now using a refcount so
   that it is now legal to call them multiple times. See updated info for
   details.

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o test suite kill race condition
 o FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP and FTP_USE_EPSV when doing FTP over HTTP proxy
 o Doing a second request with FTP on the same bath path, would make libcurl
   confuse what current working directory it had
 o FTP over HTTP proxy now sends the second CONNECT properly
 o numerous compiler warnings and build quirks for various compilers have
   been addressed
 o supports name and passwords up to 255 bytes long, embedded in URLs
 o the HTTP_ONLY define disables the TFTP support

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o http://curl.hkmirror.org/ is a new curl web mirror in Hong Kong
 o http://curl.storemypix.com/ is a new curl web mirror in Germany
 o http://curl.s-lines.net/ is a new curl web mirror in Japan
 o TclCurl 0.15.1 was released:
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/

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

 Dov Murik, Jean Jacques Drouin, Andres Garcia, Yang Tse, Gisle Vanem, Dan
 Fandrich, Alexander Lazic, Michael Jahn, Andrew Benham, Bryan Henderson,
 David Shaw
 
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)