RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.16.2

 Public curl release number:               98
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 125
 Available command line options:           117
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     141
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    54
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        39
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         35
 Number of contributors:                   539

This release includes the following changes:
 
 o added CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS
 o added CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING, CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING and
   --raw
 o added support for using the NSS library for TLS/SSL
 o changed default anonymous FTP password
 o changed the CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC option to handle active and passive
   CCC shutdown
 o Added the --ftp-ssl-ccc-mode command line option

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o in testsuite, update test cookies expiration from 2007-Feb-1 to year 2035 
 o socks5 works
 o builds fine with VC2005
 o CURLOPT_RANGE set to NULL resets the range for FTP
 o curl_multi_remove_handle() rare crash
 o passive FTP transfers work with SOCKS
 o multi interface HTTPS connection re-use memory leak
 o libcurl.m4's --with-libcurl is improved
 o curl-config --libs and libcurl.pc no longer list unnecessary dependencies
 o fixed an issue with CCC not working on some servers
 o several HTTP pipelining problems

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

Other curl-related news:

 o 

New curl mirrors:

 o 

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

 Yang Tse, Manfred Schwarb, Michael Wallner, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Shmulik Regev,
 Rob Crittenden, Robert A. Monat, Dan Fandrich, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett,
 Michal Marek, Robson Braga Araujo, Ian Turner, Linus Nielsen Feltzing,
 Ravi Pratap

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