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Curl and libcurl 7.12.1
 Public curl release number:               82
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 109
 Available command line options:           96
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 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     120
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    36
This release includes the following changes:

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 o added curl_easy_reset()
 o socks proxy support even when libcurl is built ipv6-enabled
 o read callbacks can stop the transfer by returning CURL_READFUNC_ABORT
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 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
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 o multipart formposts can upload files larger than system memory
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 o the curl tool continues with the next URL even if one transfer fails
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 o FTP 3rd party transfer support - seven new setopt() options

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o no longer accepts any cookies with domain set to just a TLD
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 o HTTP Digest fix for properties without quotes in the header
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 o a bad Host: header case on re-used connections over proxy was fixed
 o a duplicate Host: header case on re-used connections was fixed
 o curl -o name#[num] now works when no globbing for [num] exists
 o the test suite runs fine with valgrind 2.1.x
 o negative Content-Length is now ignored
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 o test 505 runs fine on windows now
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 o curl_share_cleanup() crash fixed
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 o --trace files now get the final info lines too
 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)
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 o cookies can now hold 4999 bytes of content
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 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
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 o fixed HTTP POST or PUT with Digest/Negotiate/NTLM selected but the server
   didn't require any authentication
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 o win32 file:// transfer free memory bug
 o configure --disable-http builds a libcurl without HTTP support
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 o CURLOPT_FILETIME had wrong type in curl.h, it expects a long argument
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 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
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 o HTTP Digest authentication with proxies uses correct user name + password
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 o now builds fine with lcc-win32

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

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 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.
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 o Gambas binding: http://gambas.sf.net/
 o pycurl 7.12.0 was released http://pycurl.sf.net/
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 o wxWidgets binding: http://homepage.mac.com/codonnell/wxcurldav/
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 o New Austrian curl web mirror: http://curl.gds.tuwien.ac.at/
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 o TclCurl 0.12.0 was released:
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
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 o Ch binding: http://chcurl.sourceforge.net
 o New US curl web mirror: http://curl.109k.com/

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

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 Gisle Vanem, Vincent Bronner, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Chris Gaukroger,
 Gnter Knauf, Marty Kuhrt, Kjetil Jacobsen, Steven Bazyl, Seshubabu Pasam,
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 Luca Alteas, Jean-Louis Lemaire, David Byron, David Cohen, Rob Stanzel,
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 Niels van Tongeren, Andrs Garca, Toby Peterson, Casey O'Donnell, Brian
 Akins, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Joel Chen, Dylan Salisbury
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)