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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2010-12-16

Thursday 16th December 2010

Fedora Project

  • Updated curl in Rawhide to 7.21.3:

    • Added --noconfigure switch to testcurl.pl

    • Added --xattr option

    • Added CURLOPT_RESOLVE and --resolve

    • Added CURLAUTH_ONLY

    • Added version-check.pl to the examples directory

    • Check for libcurl features for some command line options

    • Curl_setopt: disallow CURLOPT_USE_SSL without SSL support

    • http_chunks: remove debug output

    • URL-parsing: consider ? a divider

    • SSH: avoid using the libssh2_ prefix

    • SSH: use libssh2_session_handshake() to work on win64

    • ftp: prevent server from hanging on closed data connection when stopping a transfer before the end of the full transfer (ranges)

    • LDAP: detect non-binary attributes properly

    • ftp: treat server's response 421 as CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT

    • gnutls->handshake: improved timeout handling

    • security: pass the right parameter to init

    • krb5: use GSS_ERROR to check for error

    • TFTP: resend the correct data

    • configure: fix autoconf 2.68 warning: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected

    • GnuTLS: now detects socket errors on Windows

    • symbols-in-versions: updated en masse

    • Added a couple of examples that were missing from the tarball
    • Curl_send/recv_plain: return errno on failure

    • Curl_wait_for_resolv (for c-ares): correct timeout

    • ossl_connect_common: detect connection re-use

    • configure: prevent link errors with --librtmp

    • openldap: use remote port in URL passed to ldap_init_fd()

    • url: provide dead_connection flag in Curl_handler::disconnect

    • Lots of compiler warning fixes
    • ssh: fix a download resume point calculation

    • Fix getinfo CURLINFO_LOCAL* for reused connections

    • multi: the returned running handles counter could turn negative

    • multi: only ever consider pipelining for connections doing HTTP(S)

Local Packages

  • Updated curl to 7.21.3 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-List-MoreUtils to 0.30:

    • Change the way we localise PERL_DL_NONLAZY to false to remove a warning that some people were seeing; the new approach is taken from the way that List::Util does it

  • Updated perl-Perl-Critic to buildrequire/require perl(Pod::Spell) and perl(PPIx::Regexp), require perl(File::Which) and bump perl(PPI) version requirement to 1.208

  • Updated perl-YAML-Tiny to 1.46:

    • Added support for trailing line comments
    • Added checks for some characters that are illegal/reserved in plain scalars
    • Minor cleaning up of some out of date POD
    • Updated AUTOMATED_TESTING dependencies to new versions

    • Added experimental support for exception->errstr conversion

    • Updated test suite yaml_error to not expect exceptions


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