curl/RELEASE-NOTES

curl and libcurl 7.86.0

 Public curl releases:         211
 Command line options:         248
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   300
 Public functions in libcurl:  91
 Contributors:                 2699

This release includes the following changes:

 o NPN: remove support for and use of [16]
 o Websockets: initial support [23]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o cmake: define BUILDING_LIBCURL in lib/CMakeLists, not config.h [5]
 o cmake: fix original MinGW builds [177]
 o configure: correct the wording when checking grep -E [13]
 o configure: fail if '--without-ssl' + explicit parameter for an ssl lib [164]
 o content_encoding: use writer struct subclasses for different encodings [8]
 o ctype: remove all use of <ctype.h>, use our own versions [12]
 o curl-compilers.m4: use -O2 as default optimize for clang [6]
 o curl_ctype: convert to macros-only [10]
 o curl_easy_pause.3: unpausing is as fast as possible [14]
 o curl_setup: include curl.h after platform setup headers [37]
 o curl_setup: include only system.h instead of curl.h [34]
 o CURLOPT_DNS_INTERFACE.3: mention it works for almost all protocols [15]
 o CURLOPT_PROXY_SSLCERT_BLOB.3: this is for HTTPS proxies [9]
 o CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH.3: Fix backslash escaping under single quotes [172]
 o docs: correct missing uppercase in Markdown files [38]
 o docs: remove mentions of deprecated '--without-openssl' parameter [170]
 o formdata: fix warning: 'CURLformoption' is promoted to 'int' [24]
 o ftp: ignore a 550 response to MDTM [1]
 o getparameter: return PARAM_MANUAL_REQUESTED for -M even when disabled [17]
 o header: define public API functions as extern c [26]
 o headers: reset the requests counter at transfer start [25]
 o http2: make nghttp2 less picky about field whitespace [27]
 o lib: add missing limits.h includes [35]
 o lib: add required Win32 setup definitions in setup-win32.h [4]
 o manpages: Fix spelling of "allows to" -> "allows one to" [171]
 o misc: ISSPACE() => ISBLANK() [11]
 o misc: spelling fixes [174]
 o RELEASE-PROCEDURE.md: mention patch releases [21]
 o scripts: use `grep -E` instead of `egrep` [30]
 o setup-win32: no longer define UNICODE/_UNICODE implicitly [3]
 o tests/certs/scripts: insert standard curl source headers [169]
 o tests: fix tag syntax errors in test files
 o tool_hugehelp: make hugehelp a blank macro when disabled [7]
 o tool_operate: avoid a few #ifdefs for disabled-libcurl builds [29]
 o tool_operate: prevent over-queuing in parallel mode [176]
 o tool_operate: reduce errorbuffer allocs [173]
 o tool_progress: remove 'Qd' from the parallel progress bar [175]
 o tool_setopt: use better English in --libcurl source comments [39]
 o urlapi: leaner with fewer allocs [2]
 o wolfSSL: fix session management bug. [31]

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

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

  a1346054 on github, ajak in #curl, Andrew Lambert, Benjamin Loison,
  Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, Emanuele Torre, Hayden Roche, James Fuller,
  justchen1369 on github, Keitagit-kun on github, Marcel Raad, Marc Hörsken,
  Max Dymond, Michael Heimpold, Orgad Shaneh, Patrick Monnerat, Philip Heiduck,
  ProceduralMan on github, Ray Satiro, Samuel Henrique, ssdbest on github,
  Viktor Szakats, zhanghu on xiaomi
  (24 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9357
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9408
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9375
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9375
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9498
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9444
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9485
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9455
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9434
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9429
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9432
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9433
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9471
 [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9410
 [15] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9427
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9307
 [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9485
 [21] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9495
 [23] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=8995
 [24] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9484
 [25] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9424
 [26] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9424
 [27] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9448
 [29] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9486
 [30] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9491
 [31] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9492
 [34] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9453
 [35] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9453
 [37] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9453
 [38] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9474
 [39] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9475
 [164] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9414
 [169] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9417
 [170] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9415
 [171] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9419
 [172] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9418
 [173] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9394
 [174] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9403
 [175] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9389
 [176] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=8933
 [177] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=9214