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Curl and libcurl 7.19.3
 Public curl releases:         109
 Known libcurl bindings:       37
 Contributors:                 683
This release includes the following changes:
 o CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE bit added for CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH and CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH
This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o build failure when disabling FTP but enabling GSS
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 o fixed several calls to memory functions that didn't check return codes
 o memory leak for SSL connects with libcurl/NSS when CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT was
   used
 o re-use of connections with the multi interface when multiple handles used
   the same server
 o memory leak with HTTP GSS/kerberos authentication
 o removed the default use of "Pragma: no-cache"
 o fix SCP/SFTP busyloop by using a new libssh2 1.0 function
 o bad fclose() after a fatal error in cookie code
 o curl_multi_remove_handle() when the handle was in use in a HTTP pipeline
 o GSS authentication infinite loop problem
 o 550 response from SIZE no longer treated as missing file
 o ftps:// control connections now use explicit protection level
 o dotted IPv6 addresses longer than 39 bytes failed
 o curl_easy_duphandle() doesn't try to duplicate the connection cache pointer
 o build failure on OS/400 when enabling IPv6
 o improved connection re-use for subsequent SCP and SFTP transfers
 o multi interface does less busy-loops for SCP and SFTP transfers with libssh2
   1.0 or later
 o curl_multi_timeout() no longer returns timeout 0 when there's nothing to do
   yet
 o the multi_socket API and HTTP pipelining now work a lot better when combined
 o SFTP seek/resume beyond 32bit file sizes
 o fixed breakage with --with-ssl --disable-verbose
 o TTL "leak" in the DNS cache

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

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

 Yang Tse, Daniel Fandrich, Jim Meyering, Christian Krause, Andreas Wurf,
 Markus Koetter, Josef Wolf, Vlad Grachov, Pawel Kierski, Igor Novoseltsev,
 Fred Machado, Ken Hirsch, Keshav Krity, Patrick Monnerat, Mark Karpeles,
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 Anthony Bryan, Peter Korsgaard, Phil Lisiecki, Bas Mevissen
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)