# Release Notes for Libwww

See also the the latest changes that are committed to and available from CVS but not yet in a release. See also the full libwww release history.

## Release 5.3.2, Dec 14, 2000

This is a minor release that mainly provides bug fixes and small enhancements that have been commited to CVS since the last release. Vladimir Koslov provided indispensable help for testing and preparing the Win32 release. Special thanks to Wayne Davison, Art Barstow, Peter Stamfest, Zhu Qun-Ying, Jens Meggers, Ken Olum for their contributions.

- Summary of principal changes (the ChangeLog provides a detailed account)
  - The following sample applications could core dump under Windows: `head.c, getheaders.c, chunk.c, chunkbody.c, multichunk.c`
  - When retrieving an object from the cache, the HTTP headers associated with the object weren't stored in the HTResponse object.
  - The cache garbage collector could go into an endless loop.
  - The HTResponse object now returns the HTTP reason.
  - Update of expat to version 19990728.
  - Optimization, enhancements, and bugs fixes to the HTRDF module
  - Some memory leaks and compiler warning fixes.
  - The robot could hang when accessing local files.
  - Optimization of the HTChunk and HTHash modules.
- Outstanding bugs
  - The `webbot` crashes from time to time under Windows. It seems to be a problem while reading the `robots.txt` file, where the application frees a request that's still registred in the Windows async. loop.,
  - The `tiny.c` sample application doesn't prompt the user with a text input.
  - Interpretation of FD_CLOSE under Windows.
  - The FTP implementation has memory leaks and doesn't remember the path or authentication information correctly.
  - Compiling with -O2 and -Wall reveals some unitialized variables in HTDIR and HTFTP.
- To do
  - Compile the answers to the libwww survey (volunteers are welcome).