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:                   572

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

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

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