Curl 7-15.0

Release notes:

Curl and libcurl 7.15.0

A security-related fix is the most important change in this release. More info about that on http://curl.haxx.se/docs/security.html and in the soon upcoming advisory.

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Public curl release number: 90
Releases counted from the very beginning: 117
Available command line options: 109
Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 124
Number of public functions in libcurl: 46
Amount of public web site mirrors: 24
Number of known libcurl bindings: 32
Number of contributors: 451

This release includes the following changes:

o --ftp-skip-pasv-ip / CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP (sponsored by CU*Answers)
o TFTP support added

This release includes the following bugfixes:

o user+domain name buffer overflow in the NTLM code (security flaw)
o -z over FTP now considers equal timestamps "not modified since"
o Weird characters removed from the configure script
o Fixed time zone offsets for MEST and CEST for the time parser
o HTTP Content-Range header parser crash
o FTPS negotiation timeouts/errors
o SSPI works even for Windows 9x
o crash in --dump-header on FTP
o test 56 runs better

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

o http://curl.freemirror.de/ is a new German mirror
o All curl relatd mailing list information and subscribers on cool.haxx.se
were lost due to a malicious user exploiting a security hole on the
server. Attempts have been made to put back susbcribers on the lists, but
many have been lost: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lost.html
o New S-Lang binding: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/slang/
o TclCurl 0.14.1: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
o pycurl 7.14.1: http://pycurl.sf.net/

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

o John Kelly, Nicolas François, Scott Davis, Ben Madsen, Dmitry Bartsevich,
David Yan, Michael Wallner, Domenico Andreoli, Darryl House

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

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