[ANNOUNCE] curl and libcurl 7.16.4

Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:53:11 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.announce,gmane.comp.web.curl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Good day!

I'm happy to announce curl and libcurl 7.16.4! A release mostly focused on a 
(minor) security-related bug fix.

Download your fresh copy here: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

Curl and libcurl 7.16.4

  Public curl release number:               100
  Releases counted from the very beginning: 126
  Available command line options:           118
  Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     143
  Number of public functions in libcurl:    55
  Amount of public web site mirrors:        39
  Number of known libcurl bindings:         35
  Number of contributors:                   572

This release includes the following changes:

  o added CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS and CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS
  o improved hashing of sockets for the multi_socket API
  o ftp kerberos5 support added

This release includes the following bugfixes:

  o adjusted how libcurl treats HTTP 1.1 responses without content-lenth or
    chunked encoding
  o fixed the 10-at-a-time.c example
  o FTP over SOCKS proxy
  o improved error messages on SCP upload failures
  o security flaw (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20070710.html) in which libcurl
    failed to properly reject some outdated or not yet valid server
    certificates when built with GnuTLS

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

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

  Robert Iakobashvili, James Housley, Guenter Knauf, James Bursa, Song Ma,
  Thomas J. Moore, Gavrie Philipson, Kees Cook

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