curl and libcurl 7.18.0

cURL

I’m happy to announce the 103rd curl release: curl and libcurl 7.18.0.

No less than 35 persons beside myself contributed with info, reports and/or code to make the release as it turned out. We’ve added a bunch of new features and we’ve solved well over 30 different bugs. This is the news:

Changes:

Bugfixes:

  • curl-config –features and –protocols show the correct output when built with NSS, and also when SCP, SFTP and libz are not available
  • free problem in the curl tool for users with empty home dir
  • curl.h version 7.17.1 problem when building C++ apps with MSVC
  • SFTP and SCP use persistent connections
  • segfault on bad URL
  • variable wrapping when using absolutely huge send buffer sizes
  • variable wrapping when using debug callback and the HTTP request wasn’t sent in one go
  • SSL connections with NSS done with the multi-interface
  • setting a share no longer activates cookies
  • Negotiate now works on auth and proxy simultaneously
  • support HTTP Digest nonces up to 1023 letters
  • resumed ftp upload no longer requires the read callback to return full buffers
  • no longer default-appends ;type= on FTP URLs thru proxies
  • SSL session id caching
  • POST with callback over proxy requiring NTLM or Digest
  • Expect: 100-continue flaw on re-used connection with POSTs
  • build fix for MSVC 9.0 (VS2008)
  • Windows curl builds failed file truncation when retry downloading
  • SSL session ID cache memory leak
  • bad connection re-use check with environment variable-activated proxy use
  • –libcurl now generates a return statement as well
  • socklen_t is no longer used in the public includes
  • time zone offsets from -1400 to +1400 are now accepted by the date parser
  • allows more spaces in WWW/Proxy-Authenticate: headers
  • curl-config –libs skips /usr/lib64
  • range support for file:// transfers
  • libcurl hang with huge POST request and request-body read from callback
  • removed extra newlines from many error messages
  • improved pipelining
  • improved OOM handling for data url encoded HTTP POSTs when read from a file
  • test suite could pick wrong tool(s) if more than one existed in the PATH
  • curl_multi_fdset() failed to return socket while doing CONNECT over proxy
  • curl_multi_remove_handle() on a handle that is in used for a pipeline now break that pipeline
  • CURLOPT_COOKIELIST memory leaks
  • progress meter/callback during http proxy CONNECT requests
  • auth for http proxy when the proxy closes connection after first response