RELEASE-NOTES: synced with 2b26eb98

Curl and libcurl 7.24.1

Curl and libcurl 7.25.0

 Public curl releases:         127

 Command line options:         149

 curl_easy_setopt() options:   192

 Command line options:         150

 curl_easy_setopt() options:   198

 Public functions in libcurl:  58

 Known libcurl bindings:       39

 Contributors:                 907

This release includes the following security fixes:

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This release includes the following changes:

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 o configure: add option disable --libcurl output [1]

 o --ssl-allow-beast and CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS added [2]

 o Added CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE, CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPIDLE, CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPINTVL [4]

 o curl: use new library-side TCP_KEEPALIVE options [5]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

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 o --max-redirs: allow negative numbers as option value [3]

 o parse_proxy: bail out on zero-length proxy names [6]

 o configure: don't modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH for cross compiles [7]

 o curl_easy_reset: reset the referer string [8]

 o curl tool: don't abort glob-loop due to failures [9]

 o CONNECT: send correct Host: with IPv6 numerical address [10]

 o Explicitly link to the nettle/gcrypt libraries [11]

 o more resilient connection times among IP addresses [12]

 o winbuild: fix IPV6 and IDN options

This release includes the following known bugs:

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and

advice from friends like these:

 Colin Hogben, Alessandro Ghedini, Kamil Dudka, Rob Ward, Dave Reisner,

 Martin Storsjo, Pierre Ynard, Pierre Joye, Yang Tse, Dan Fandrich,

 Michael Day, Juan Barreto, Chandrakant Bagul

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0009.html

 [2] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0001.html

 [3] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0098.html

 [4] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-01/0264.html

 [5] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-01/0263.html

 [6] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0000.html

 [7] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0052.html

 [8] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3481551

 [9] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3481223

 [10] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3482093

 [11] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-01/0303.html

 [12] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-01/0190.html