curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.42.0

 Public curl releases:         145
 Command line options:         163
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   209
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Contributors:                 1233

This release includes the following changes:

 o

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o sws: timeout idle CONNECT connections
 o nss: improve error handling in Curl_nss_random()
 o nss: do not skip Curl_nss_seed() if data is NULL
 o curl-config.in: eliminate double quotes around CURL_CA_BUNDLE
 o http2: move lots of verbose output to be debug-only
 o dist: add extern-scan.pl to the tarball
 o http2: return recv error on unexpected EOF [1]
 o build: Use default RandomizedBaseAddress directive in VC9+ project files
 o build: Removed DataExecutionPrevention directive from VC9+ project files
 o tool: Updated the warnf() function to use the GlobalConfig structure
 o http2: Return error if stream was closed with other than NO_ERROR
 o mprintf.h: remove #ifdef CURLDEBUG
 o libtest: fixed linker errors on msvc [6]
 o tool: use ENABLE_CURLX_PRINTF instead of _MPRINTF_REPLACE
 o curl.1: fix "The the" typo
 o cmake: handle build definitions CURLDEBUG/DEBUGBUILD
 o openssl: remove all uses of USE_SSLEAY
 o multi: fix memory-leak on timeout (regression) [4]
 o curl_easy_setopt.3: added CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS
 o metalink: add some error checks [3]
 o TLS: make it possible to enable ALPN/NPN without HTTP/2
 o http2: use CURL_HTTP_VERSION_* symbols instead of NPN_*
 o conncontrol: only log changes to the connection bit
 o multi: fix *getsock() with CONNECT [2]
 o symbols.pl: handle '-' in the deprecated field [5]

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

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

  Alessandro Ghedini, Brad King, Daniel Stenberg, Jeroen Ooms, Jonathan Cardoso,
  Jon Seymour, Kamil Dudka, Markus Elfring, Michel Promonet, Peter Laser,
  Ray Satiro, Sergei Nikulov, Steve Havelka, Steve Holme, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa,
  Viktor Szakáts,

        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1487
 [2] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-01/0170.html
 [3] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/150
 [4] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/147
 [5] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-03/0052.html
 [6] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/144