Curl and libcurl 7.17.1

 Public curl release number:               102
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 128
 Available command line options:           121
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     147
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    55
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        42
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         36
 Number of contributors:                   588

This release includes the following changes:
 
 o automatically append ";type=<a|i>" when using HTTP proxies for FTP urls
 o improved NSS support
 o added --proxy-negotiate
 o added --post301 and CURLOPT_POST301
 o builds with c-ares 1.5.0
 o added CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5 and --hostpubmd5
 o renamed CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE to CURLE_PEER_FAILED_VERIFICATION
 o added CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION and CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETDATA
 o CULROPT_COOKIELIST supports "FLUSH"

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o curl-config --protocols now properly reports LDAPS, SCP and SFTP
 o ldapv3 support on Windows
 o ldap builds with the MSVC makefiles
 o no HOME and no key given caused SSH auth failure
 o Negotiate authentication over proxy
 o --ftp-method nocwd on directory listings
 o FTP, CURLOPT_NOBODY enabled and CURLOPT_HEADER disabled now does TYPE
   before SIZE
 o re-used handle transfers with SFTP
 o curl_easy_escape() problem with byte values >= 128
 o handles chunked-encoded CONNECT responses
 o misuse of ares_timeout() result
 o --local-port on TFTP transfers

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

Other curl-related news:

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New curl mirrors:

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

 Dan Fandrich, Michal Marek, Günter Knauf, Rob Crittenden, Immanuel Gregoire,
 Mark Davies, Max Katsev, Philip Langdale, Alex Fishman, Johnny Luong,
 Alexey Pesternikov, Yang Tse, Kim Rinnewitz, Michael Wallner
 
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)