curl/RELEASE-NOTES

curl and libcurl 8.6.0

 Public curl releases:         254
 Command line options:         258
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   304
 Public functions in libcurl:  93
 Contributors:                 3052

This release includes the following changes:

 o curl.h: add CURLE_TOO_LARGE [48]
 o CURLOPT_SERVER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT_MS: add [39]
 o runtests: support -gl. Like -g but for lldb. [47]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o altsvc: free 'as' when returning error [23]
 o appveyor: switch to out-of-tree builds [29]
 o build: delete unused `HAVE_{GSSHEIMDAL,GSSMIT,HEIMDAL}` [4]
 o build: enable missing OpenSSF-recommended warnings, with fixes [11]
 o build: fix `-Wconversion`/`-Wsign-conversion` warnings [26]
 o build: fix Windows ADDRESS_FAMILY detection [35]
 o build: more `-Wformat` fixes [40]
 o build: remove redundant `CURL_PULL_*` settings [8]
 o CI/distcheck: run full tests [31]
 o cmake: fix generation for system name iOS [53]
 o cmake: fix typo [5]
 o cmake: prefill/cache `HAVE_STRUCT_SOCKADDR_STORAGE` [45]
 o cmdline-docs: use .IP consistently [13]
 o cmdline/gen: fix the sorting of the man page options [33]
 o cookie: avoid fopen with empty file name [24]
 o curl: show ipfs and ipns as supported "protocols" [15]
 o dist: add tests/errorcodes.pl to the tarball [6]
 o docs: clean up Protocols: for cmdline options [32]
 o doh: remove unused local variable [34]
 o ftp: handle the PORT parsing without allocation [44]
 o gnutls: fix build with --disable-verbose [3]
 o hostip: return error immediately when Curl_ip2addr() fails [19]
 o http: fix off-by-one error in request method length check [14]
 o lib: fix variable undeclared error caused by `infof` changes [2]
 o lib: reduce use of strncpy [30]
 o lib: rename Curl_strndup to Curl_memdup0 to avoid misunderstanding [36]
 o lib: strndup/memdup instead of malloc, memcpy and null-terminate [42]
 o libssh: improve the deprecation warning dismissal [20]
 o libssh: supress warnings without version check [18]
 o Makefile.am: fix the MSVC project generation [22]
 o Makefile.mk: drop Windows support [12]
 o openssl: re-match LibreSSL deinit with init [17]
 o readwrite_data: loop less [21]
 o Revert "urldata: move async resolver state from easy handle to connectdata" [16]
 o sectransp_ make TLSCipherNameForNumber() available in non-verbose config [1]
 o sendf: fix compiler warning with CURL_DISABLE_HEADERS_API [38]
 o ssh: fix namespace of two local macros [51]
 o system.h: sync mingw `CURL_TYPEOF_CURL_SOCKLEN_T` with other compilers [9]
 o tests/server: delete workaround for old-mingw [25]
 o tests: respect $TMPDIR when creating unix domain sockets [50]
 o url: for disabled protocols, mention if found in redirect [7]
 o vtls: remove the Curl_cft_ssl_proxy object if CURL_DISABLE_PROXY [41]
 o windows: delete redundant headers [43]
 o windows: simplify detecting and using system headers [10]

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:

  Baruch Siach, Ben, Boris Verkhovskiy, Cajus Pollmeier, Chara White,
  Chris Sauer, Dan Fandrich, Daniel Gustafsson, Daniel Stenberg, Dmitry Karpov,
  iAroc on github, Mark Sinkovics, Mauricio Scheffer, Michał Antoniak,
  Mike Hommey, Ray Satiro, Stefan Eissing, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Theo,
  Viktor Szakats, Xi Ruoyao, Yedaya Katsman, Yifei Kong, YX Hao, zengwei,
  zengwei2000
  (26 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12474
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12470
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12505
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12506
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12464
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12462
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12466
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12502
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12501
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12495
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12489
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12224
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12535
 [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12534
 [15] = https://curl.se/mail/archive-2023-12/0026.html
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12524
 [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12525
 [18] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12523
 [19] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12522
 [20] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12519
 [21] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12504
 [22] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12564
 [23] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12570
 [24] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12514
 [25] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12510
 [26] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12557
 [29] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12550
 [30] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12499
 [31] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12503
 [32] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12496
 [33] = https://curl.se/mail/archive-2023-12/0014.html
 [34] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12491
 [35] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12441
 [36] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12490
 [38] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12485
 [39] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12369
 [40] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12540
 [41] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12459
 [42] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12453
 [43] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12539
 [44] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12456
 [45] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12537
 [47] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12547
 [48] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12269
 [50] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12545
 [51] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12544
 [53] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12515