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:                 3137

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-confopts.m4: define CARES_NO_DEPRECATED when c-ares is used [17]
 o curl: make --help adapt to the terminal width [11]
 o curl: use curl_getenv instead of the curlx_ version [20]
 o curl_sha512_255: fix detection of OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later [8]
 o curl_sha512_256: do not use workaround for NetBSD when not needed [21]
 o docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE: convert to markdown [12]
 o idn: make Curl_idnconvert_hostname() use Curl_idn_decode() [16]
 o libssh2: set length to 0 if strdup failed [6]
 o m4: fix rustls pkg-config codepath [22]
 o openldap: create ldap URLs correctly for IPv6 addresses [19]
 o openssl: do not set SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS [10]
 o RELEASE-PROCEDURE: mention an initial working build [7]
 o reuse: add copyright + license info to individual docs/*.md files [13]
 o tool_getparam: output warning for leading unicode quote character [14]
 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]
 o vquic: use CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T for 64 bit printf output [18]

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 McCarney, Daniel Stenberg,
  Emanuele Torre, Evgeny Grin (Karlson2k), Harry Sintonen,
  Keitagit-kun on github, kpcyrd on github, Matt Jolly, Michael Kaufmann,
  Paul Howarth, riastradh on github, Robert Moreton, Sanjay Pujare,
  Sergio Durigan Junior, Stefan Eissing, Tobias Stoeckmann
  (18 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
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13247
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13245
 [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13214
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13236
 [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13240
 [18] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13224
 [19] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13228
 [20] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13230
 [21] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13225
 [22] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13200