RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.16.5

 Public curl release number:               101
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 127
 Available command line options:           118
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     143
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    55
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        39
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         35
 Number of contributors:                   572

This release includes the following changes:
 
 o support for OS/400 Secure Sockets Layer library

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o test cases 31, 46, 61, 506, 517 now work in time zones that use leap seconds
 o problem with closed proxy connection during HTTP CONNECT auth negotiation
 o transfer-encoding skipping didn't ignore the 407 response bodies properly
 o CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1
 o CONNECT endless loop
 o krb5 support builds with Heimdal
 o added returned error string for connection refused case
 o re-use of dead FTP control connections
 o login to FTP servers that don't require (nor understand) PASS after the
   USER command
 o bad free of memory from libssh2
 o the SFTP PWD command works
 o HTTP Digest auth on a re-used connection

This release includes the following known bugs:

 o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)

Other curl-related news:

 o pycurl 7.16.4 was released http://pycurl.sf.net
 o TclCurl 7.16.4 was released
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/

New curl mirrors:

 o http://curl.freeby.pctools.cl is a new mirror in Chile

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

 Dan Fandrich, Song Ma, Daniel Black, Giancarlo Formicuccia, Shmulik Regev,
 Daniel Cater, Colin Hogben, Jofell Gallardo, Daniel Johnson,
 Ralf S. Engelschall, James Housley, Chris Flerackers, Patrick Monnerat
 
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)