RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.16.0

 Public curl release number:               96
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 123
 Available command line options:           117
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     138
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    54
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        33
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         34
 Number of contributors:                   515

This release includes the following changes:

 o curl_multi_socket() and family are suitable to start using
 o uses WSAPoll() on Windows Vista
 o (FTP) --ftp-ssl-control was added
 o CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE and --no-sessionid added
 o CURLMOPT_PIPELINING added for enabling HTTP pipelined transfers
 o multi handles now have a shared connection cache
 o Added support for other MS-DOS compilers (besides djgpp)
 o CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION and CURLOPT_SOCKOPTDATA were added
 o (FTP) libcurl avoids sending TYPE if the desired type was already set
 o (FTP) CURLOPT_PREQUOTE works even when CURLOPT_NOBODY is set true

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o multi interface crash if bad function call order was used for cleanup
 o put a new URL in saved cookie jar files
 o configure --with-gssapi-libs
 o SOCKS proxy connection fixes
 o (FTP) a failed upload does not invalidate the control connection
 o proxy URL with user name and empty password or no password at all now work
 o fixed a socket state problem with *multi_socket()
 o (HTTP) NTLM hostname fix
 o getsockname usage fixes
 o SOCKS5 proxy connects can now time-out
 o SOCKS5 connects that require auth no longer segfaults when auth not given
 o multi interface using asynch resolves could get stuck in wrong state
 o the 'running_handles' counter wasn't always updated properly when
   curl_multi_remove_handle() was used
 o (FTP) EPRT transfers with IPv6 didn't work properly
 o (FTP) SINGLECWD mode and using files in the root dir
 o (HTTP) Expect: header disabling work better
 o (HTTP) "Expect: 100-continue" disable on second POST on re-used connection
 o src/config.h.in is fixed

Other curl-related news:

 o pycurl-7.15.5 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net

New curl mirrors:

 o http://curl.geosdreams.info/ is a new Polish mirror
 o http://curl.gfiles.org/ is a new Russian mirror

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

 Domenico Andreoli, Armel Asselin, Gisle Vanem, Yang Tse, Andrew Biggs,
 Peter Sylvester, David McCreedy, Dmitriy Sergeyev, Dmitry Rechkin,
 Jari Sundell, Ravi Pratap, Michele Bini, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Michael Wallner,
 Mike Protts, Cory Nelson, Bernard Leak

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