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  1. Curl and libcurl 7.27.0
  2. Public curl releases: 128
  3. Command line options: 152
  4. curl_easy_setopt() options: 199
  5. Public functions in libcurl: 58
  6. Known libcurl bindings: 39
  7. Contributors: 953
  8. This release includes the following changes:
  9. o nss: use human-readable error messages provided by NSS
  10. o added --metalink for metalink download support [5]
  11. o pop3: Added support for sasl plain text authentication
  12. o pop3: Added support for sasl login authentication
  13. o pop3: Added support for sasl ntlm authentication
  14. o pop3: Added support for sasl cram-md5 authentication
  15. o pop3: Added support for sasl digest-md5 authentication
  16. o pop3: Added support for apop authentication
  17. o Added support for Schannel (Native Windows) SSL/TLS encryption [2]
  18. This release includes the following bugfixes:
  19. o pop3: Fixed the issue of having to supply the user name for all requests
  20. o configure: fix LDAPS disabling related misplaced closing parenthesis
  21. o cmdline: made -D option work with -O and -J
  22. o configure: Fix libcurl.pc and curl-config generation for static MingW*
  23. cross builds
  24. o ssl: fix duplicated SSL handshake with multi interface and proxy [1]
  25. o winbuild: Fix Makefile.vc ignoring USE_IPV6 and USE_IDN flags
  26. o OpenSSL: support longer certificate subject names [3]
  27. o openldap: OOM fixes
  28. o log2changes.pl: fix the Version output
  29. o lib554.c: use curl_formadd() properly [4]
  30. o urldata.h: fix cyassl build clash with wincrypt.h
  31. o
  32. This release includes the following known bugs:
  33. o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)
  34. This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
  35. advice from friends like these:
  36. Anthony Bryan, Guenter Knauf, Kamil Dudka, Steve Holme, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa,
  37. Yang Tse, Gokhan Sengun, Marc Hoersken, Ghennadi Procopciuc, Gisle Vanem,
  38. Mark Salisbury, Anthony G. Basile, Enrico Scholz, Robert B. Harris,
  39. Neil Bowers
  40. Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
  41. References to bug reports and discussions on issues:
  42. [1] = https://bugzilla.redhat.com/788526
  43. [2] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/06/12/schannel-support-in-libcurl/
  44. [3] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3533045
  45. [4] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-06/0001.html
  46. [5] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/06/03/curling-the-metalink/