curl and libcurl 8.8.1

 Public curl releases:         258
 Command line options:         259
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   305
 Public functions in libcurl:  94
 Contributors:                 3174

This release includes the following changes:


This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o (lib)curl.rc: set debug flag also for `CURLDEBUG` and `UNITTESTS` [2]
 o asyn-thread: avoid using GetAddrInfoExW with impersonation [7]
 o cmake: fix brotli lib order [3]
 o cmake: fix building in unity mode [4]
 o cmake: fix building with both md4 and md5 in unity mode [13]
 o docs/Makefile.am: make curl-config.1 install [14]
 o mbedtls: check version for cipher id [12]
 o mbedtls: send close-notify on close [11]
 o pytest: add ftp upload tests [16]
 o test: add test1484, for HEAD with content [18]
 o test: add test1546, chunked not last transfer encoding [17]
 o transfer: conn close on paused upload [8]
 o winbuild: fix PE version info debug flag [1]
 o winbuild: remove outdated WIN32 defines [5]

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:

  Daniel Stenberg, dependabot[bot], edmcln on github, Kai Pastor,
  Keerthi Timmaraju, Orgad Shaneh, Pavel Pavlov, Ray Satiro, renovate[bot],
  Sergey Bronnikov, Stefan Eissing, Viktor Szakats
  (12 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13739
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13730
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13761
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13751
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13739
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13612
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13740
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13745
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13749
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13737
 [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13741
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13734
 [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13736
 [18] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13735