RELEASE-NOTES

curl and libcurl 8.6.1

 Public curl releases:         255
 Command line options:         258
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   304
 Public functions in libcurl:  93
 Contributors:                 3090

This release includes the following changes:

 o configure: add --disable-docs flag [16]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o ALTSVC.md: correct a typo [14]
 o asyn-thread: use wakeup_close to close the read descriptor [1]
 o badwords: use hostname, not host name [46]
 o cmake: add warning for using TLS libraries without 1.3 support [25]
 o cmake: fix function description in comment [47]
 o cmdline-docs/Makefile: avoid using a fixed temp file name [5]
 o cmdline-docs: quote and angle bracket cleanup [45]
 o configure: add warning for using TLS libraries without 1.3 support [26]
 o configure: do not link with nghttp3 unless necessary [7]
 o connect.c: fix typo [17]
 o cookie.md: provide an example sending a fixed cookie [13]
 o curl: exit on config file parser errors [40]
 o curl: when allocating variables, add the name into the struct [37]
 o CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION.md: typo fix [41]
 o dist: make sure the http tests are in the tarball [29]
 o docs: add missing slashes to SChannel client certificate documentation [11]
 o docs: add mk-ca-bundle.1 to dist [49]
 o docs: add necessary setup for nghttp3 [51]
 o docs: make curldown do angle brackets like markdown [54]
 o docs: make sure curl.1 is included in dist tarballs [35]
 o docs: remove `mk-ca-bundle.1` from `man_MANS` [21]
 o form-string.md: correct the example [4]
 o ftp: do lineend conversions in client writer [32]
 o ftp: fix socket wait activity in ftp_domore_getsock [28]
 o ftp: tracing improvements [33]
 o ftp: treat a 226 arriving before data as a signal to read data [19]
 o header.md: remove backslash, make nicer markdown [48]
 o HTTP/2: write response directly [12]
 o HTTP3.md: adjust the OpenSSL QUIC install instructions [34]
 o https-proxy: use IP address and cert with ip in alt names [50]
 o lib582: remove code causing warning that is never run [38]
 o lib: convert Curl_get_line to use dynbuf [42]
 o libcurl-security.md: Active FTP passes on the local IP address [6]
 o mbedtls: fix building when MBEDTLS_X509_REMOVE_INFO flag is defined [27]
 o md4: include strdup.h for the memdup proto [10]
 o multi: add xfer_buf to multi handle [30]
 o ntml_wb: fix buffer type typo [2]
 o openssl-quic: check on Windows that socket conv to int is possible [8]
 o OS400: avoid using awk in the build scripts [20]
 o proxy1.0.md: fix example [15]
 o sendf: ignore response body to HEAD [18]
 o tests: support setting/using blank content env variables
 o tool_cb_hdr: only parse etag + content-disposition for 2xx [9]
 o tool_operate: change precedence of server Retry-After time [44]
 o tool_operate: do not set CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT in debug builds [3]
 o version: allow building with ancient libpsl [52]
 o vtls: revert "receive max buffer" + add test case [39]
 o write-out.md: clarify error handling details [31]

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:

  Boris Verkhovskiy, Brett Buddin, Chris Webb, Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg,
  Daniel Szmulewicz, Dirk Hünniger, Dmitry Tretyakov, Erik Schnetter,
  Fabian Vogt, Faraz Fallahi, Harry Sintonen, Jan Macku, Jiawen Geng,
  Joel Depooter, Jon Rumsey, Karthikdasari0423, Lars Kellogg-Stedman,
  Lukáš Zaoral, Michał Antoniak, Patrick Monnerat, Peter Krefting, Ray Satiro,
  Ryan Carsten Schmidt, Scott Mutter, Sergey Bronnikov, Stefan Eissing,
  Viktor Szakats
  (28 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12836
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12825
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12834
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12822
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12829
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12867
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12833
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12861
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12866
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12849
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12854
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12828
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12868
 [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12852
 [15] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12856
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12832
 [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12858
 [18] = https://curl.se/mail/lib-2024-02/0000.html
 [19] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12823
 [20] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12826
 [21] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12843
 [25] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12900
 [26] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12900
 [27] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12904
 [28] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12901
 [29] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12914
 [30] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12805
 [31] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12909
 [32] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12878
 [33] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12902
 [34] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12896
 [35] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12892
 [37] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12891
 [38] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12890
 [39] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12885
 [40] = https://curl.se/mail/archive-2024-02/0008.html
 [41] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12889
 [42] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12846
 [44] = https://curl.se/mail/archive-2024-01/0022.html
 [45] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12884
 [46] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12888
 [47] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12879
 [48] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12877
 [49] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12875
 [50] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12838
 [51] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12859
 [52] = https://curl.se/mail/archive-2024-02/0004.html
 [54] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12869