PaulHowarth/Blog/2010-10-13

Wednesday 13th October 2010

Local Packages

  • Updated curl to 7.21.2, tweaking the build support for SELinux systems to use the LD_PRELOAD hack as used in the Fedora package rather than trying to to get sshd to transition correctly, which no longer works with the mock SELinux plugin:

    • curl -T: ignore file size of special files

    • added GOPHER protocol support

    • c-ares build now requires c-ares ≥ 1.6.0

    • --remote-header-name security vulnerability fixed: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20101013.html

    • multi: support the timeouts correctly, fixes known bug #62

    • multi: use timeouts properly for MAX_RECV/SEND_SPEED

    • negotiation: wrong proxy authorization
    • multi: avoid sending multiple complete messages

    • cmdline: make -F type= accept ;charset=

    • RESUME_FROM: clarify what ftp uploads do

    • http: handle trailer headers in all chunked responses

    • Curl_is_connected: use correct errno

    • progress: callback for POSTs less than MAX_INITIAL_POST_SIZE

    • link curl and the test apps with -lrt explicitly when necessary

    • chunky parser: only rewind stream internally if needed

    • remote-header-name: don't output filename when NULL

    • Curl_timeleft: avoid returning "no timeout" by mistake

    • timeout: use the correct start value as offset

    • FTP: fix wrong timeout trigger

    • buildconf got better output on failures

    • rtsp: avoid SIGSEGV on malformed header

    • LDAP: support for tunnelling queries through HTTP proxy

    • configure's --enable-werror had a bash-ism

    • test565: don't hardcode IP:PORT

    • configure: check for gcrypt if using GnuTLS

    • configure: don't enable RTMP if the lib detect fails

    • curl_easy_duphandle: clone the c-ares handle correctly

    • support URL containing colon without trailing port number
    • parsedate: allow time specified without seconds

    • curl_easy_escape: don't escape "unreserved" characters

    • SFTP: avoid downloading negative sizes

    • lots of GSS/KRB FTP fixes

    • TFTP: work around tftpd-hpa upload bug

    • libcurl.m4: several fixes

    • HTTP: remove special case for 416

    • examples: use example.com in example URLs

    • globbing: fix crash on unbalanced open brace

    • cmake: build fixed

  • Updated java-1.6.0-sun to 1.6.0 update 22 (see SunJava6OnFedora)

  • Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 0.76:

    • Windows doesn't support STDERR redirection as used in t/80_diag


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