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Curl and libcurl 7.18.2
 Public curl releases:         105
 Public web site mirrors:      39
This release includes the following changes:
 o CURLOPT_NOBODY is now supported over SFTP
 o curl can now run on Symbian OS
 o curl -w redirect_url and CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL
This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o CURLOPT_NOBODY first set to TRUE and then FALSE for HTTP no longer causes
   the confusion that could lead to a hung transfer
 o curl_easy_reset() resets the max redirect limit properly
 o configure now correctly recognizes Heimdal and MIT gssapi libraries
 o -i and -I together now work the same no matter what order they're used
 o the typechecker can be bypassed by defining CURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK
 o a pointer mixup could make the FTP code send bad user+password under rare
   circumstances (found when using curlftpfs)
 o CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION can now be used to create a unix domain socket
 o CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY crash due to getprotobyname() use
 o libcurl sometimes sent body twice when using CURLAUTH_ANY
 o configure detecting debug-enabled c-ares
 o microsecond resolution keys for internal splay trees
 o krb4 and krb5 ftp segfault
 o multi interface busy loop for CONNECT requests
 o internal time differences now use monotonic time source if available

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 7.18.1 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net/
 o brand new curl Haskell binding:
   http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/curl

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

 Michal Marek, Daniel Fandrich, Scott Barrett, Alexey Simak, Daniel Black,
 Rafa Muyo, Andre Guibert de Bruet, Brock Noland, Sandor Feldi, Stefan Krause,
 David Shaw, Norbert Frese, Bart Whiteley, Jean-Francois Bertrand, Ben Van Hof,
 Yuriy Sosov, Christopher Palow, Yang Tse, Liam Healy
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)