RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.26.0

 Public curl releases:         127
 Command line options:         151
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   199
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Known libcurl bindings:       39
 Contributors:                 929

This release includes the following changes:

 o nss: the minimal supported version of NSS bumped to 3.12.x
 o nss: human-readable names are now provided for NSS errors if available
 o add a manual page for mk-ca-bundle
 o added --post303 and the CURL_REDIR_POST_303 option for CURLOPT_POSTREDIR
 o smtp: Add support for DIGEST-MD5 authentication
 o pop3: Added support for additional pop3 commands

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o nss: libcurl now uses NSS_InitContext() to prevent collisions if available
   [1]
 o URL parse: reject numerical IPv6 addresses outside brackets [4]
 o MD5: fix OOM memory leak [5]
 o OpenSSL cert: provide more details when cert check fails
 o HTTP: empty chunked POST ended up in two zero size chunks [6]
 o fixed a regression when curl resolved to multiple addresses and the first
   isn't supported [7]
 o -# progress meter: avoid superfluous updates and duplicate lines [8]
 o headers: surround GCC attribute names with double underscores [9]
 o PolarSSL: correct return code for CRL matches
 o PolarSSL: include version number in version string
 o PolarSSL: add support for asynchronous connect
 o mk-ca-bundle: revert the LWP usage [12]
 o IPv6 cookie domain: get rid of the first bracket before the second
 o connect.c: return changed to CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT when opensocket fails
 o OpenSSL: Made cert hostname check conform to RFC 6125 [10]
 o HTTP: reset expected DL/UL sizes on redirects [11]
 o CMake: fix Windows LDAP/LDAPS option handling [2]
 o CMake: fix MS Visual Studio x64 unsigned long long literal suffix [3]
 o configure: update detection logic of getaddrinfo() thread-safeness
 o configure: check for gethostbyname in the watt lib
 o curl-config.1: fix curl-config usage in example [13]
 o smtp: Fixed non-escaping of dot character at beginning of line
 o MakefileBuild.vc: use the correct IDN variable
 o autoconf: improve handling of versioned symbols
 o curl.1: clarify -x usage
 o curl: shorten user-agent
 o smtp: issue with the multi-interface always sending postdata [14]
 o compile error with GnuTLS+Nettle fixed
 o winbuild: fix IPv6 enabled build

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:

 Andrei Cipu, Armel Asselin, Benjamin Johnson, Dag Ekengren, Dave Reisner,
 Gokhan Sengun, Guenter Knauf, Jan Schaumann, Jonathan Nieder, Kamil Dudka,
 Lijo Antony, Olaf Flebbe, Rodrigo Silva, Steve Holme, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa,
 Tim Heckman, Yang Tse, Arnaud Compan, Blaise Potard, Daniel Theron,
 Michael Mueller, Michael Wallner, Tim Heckman, Roman Mamedov, Julian Taylor,
 Claes Jakobsson, Pierre Chapuis, Jan Ehrhardt

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://bugzilla.redhat.com/738456
 [2] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-03/0278.html
 [3] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-03/0255.html
 [4] = http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670126
 [5] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-04/0246.html
 [6] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2012-04/0060.html
 [7] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3516508
 [8] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3517418
 [9] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-04/0127.html
 [10] = http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6125#section-6.4.3
 [11] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3510057
 [12] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-03/0238.html
 [13] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3528241
 [14] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-05/0108.html