curl/RELEASE-NOTES

curl and libcurl 8.7.2

 Public curl releases:         257
 Command line options:         258
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   304
 Public functions in libcurl:  93
 Contributors:                 3133

This release includes the following changes:


This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o cf-socket: remove references to l_ip, l_port [9]
 o cmdline-docs: fix make install with configure --disable-docs [1]
 o configure: make --disable-docs imply --disable-manual [2]
 o content_encoding: brotli and others, pass through 0-length writes [5]
 o curl: make --help adapt to the terminal width [11]
 o curl_sha512_255: fix detection of OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later [8]
 o libssh2: set length to 0 if strdup failed [6]
 o openssl: do not set SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS [10]
 o RELEASE-PROCEDURE: mention an initial working build [7]
 o tool_xattr: "guess" URL scheme if none is provided [3]
 o tool_xattr: in debug builds, act normally if CURL_FAKE_XATTR is not set [4]

This release includes the following known bugs:

 o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (https://curl.se/docs/knownbugs.html)

Planned upcoming removals include:

 o support for space-separated NOPROXY patterns

 See https://curl.se/dev/deprecate.html for details

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

  Chris Webb, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Daniel Stenberg, Harry Sintonen,
  Paul Howarth, Robert Moreton, Stefan Eissing, Tobias Stoeckmann
  (8 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13198
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13191
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13205
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13220
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13209
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13213
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13216
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13208
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13210
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13203
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13171