RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.12.4

 Public curl release number:               85
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 112
 Available command line options:           100
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     123
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        14
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         29

This release includes the following changes:

 o src/getpass.c license issue sorted (code was rewritten)
 o curl -w now supports 'http_connect' for the proxy's response to CONNECT
 o introducing "curl-config --protocols"

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o "curl dictionary.com" no longer assumes DICT protocol
 o re-invoke some system calls on EINTR
 o duplicate Host: when failed connection re-use
 o SOCKS5 version check
 o memory problem with cleaning up multi interface
 o SSL certificate name memory leak
 o -d with -G to multiple URLs crashed
 o double va_list access crash fixed
 o minor memory leak when "version" is set in a cookie header
 o builds fine on BeOS and NetBSD
 o builds and runs fine on FreeBSD

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o cURLpp 0.3.2 - https://rrette.com/curlpp.html
 o pycURL 7.12.3 - http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/

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

 Dan Fandrich, Peter Pentchev, Marcin Konicki, Rune Kleveland, David Shaw,
 Werner Koch, Gisle Vanem, Alex Neblett, Kai Sommerfeld, Marty Kuhrt,
 Hzhijun, Pavel Orehov, Bruce Mitchener, Cyrill Osterwalder, Dan Torop,
 Martijn Koster, Alex aka WindEagle, Cody Jones, Samuel Daz Garca

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