curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.49.0

 Public curl releases:         154
 Command line options:         185
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   224
 Public functions in libcurl:  61
 Contributors:                 1364

This release includes the following changes:

 o schannel: Add ALPN support [2]
 o SSH: support CURLINFO_FILETIME
 o SSH: new CURLOPT_QUOTE command "statvfs" [5]
 o wolfssl: Add ALPN support [18]
 o http2: added --http2-prior-knowledge [16]
 o http2: added CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_PRIOR_KNOWLEDGE [17]
 o libcurl: added CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO [26]
 o curl: added --connect-to [27]
 o libcurl: added CURLOPT_TCP_FASTOPEN [28]
 o curl: added --tcp-fastopen [29]
 o curl: remove support for --ftpport, -http-request and --socks
   (deprecated versions since around 10 years)

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o checksrc.bat: Updated the help to be consistent with generate.bat
 o checksrc.bat: Added support for scanning the tests and examples
 o openssl: fix ERR_remove_thread_state() for boringssl/libressl [1]
 o openssl: boringssl provides the same numbering as openssl
 o multi: fix "Operation timed out after" timer [3]
 o url: don't use bad offset in tld_check_name to show error [4]
 o sshserver.pl: use quotes for given options
 o Makefile.am: skip the scripts dir [6]
 o curl: warn for --capath use if not supported by libcurl [7]
 o http2: fix connection reuse [8]
 o GSS: make Curl_gss_log_error more verbose [9]
 o build-wolfssl: Allow a broader range of ciphers (Visual Studio)
 o wolfssl: Use ECC supported curves extension [10]
 o openssl: Fix compilation warnings
 o Curl_add_buffer_send: avoid possible NULL dereference
 o SOCKS5_gssapi_negotiate: don't assume little-endian ints
 o strerror: don't bit shift a signed integer [11]
 o url: Corrected get protocol family for FTP and LDAP
 o curl/mprintf.h: remove support for _MPRINTF_REPLACE
 o upload: missing rewind call could make libcurl hang [12]
 o IMAP: check pointer before dereferencing it [13]
 o build: Changed the Visual Studio projects warning level from 3 to 4
 o checksrc: now stricter, wider checks, code cleaned up
 o checksrc: added docs/CHECKSRC.md
 o curl_sasl: Fixed potential null pointer utilisation [14]
 o krb5: Fixed missing client response when mutual authentication enabled
 o krb5: Only process challenge when present
 o krb5: Only generate a SPN when its not known
 o formdata: use appropriate fopen() macros
 o curl.1: -w filename_effective was introduced in 7.26.0
 o http2: make use of the nghttp2 error callback [15]
 o http2: fix connection reuse when PING comes after last DATA [19]
 o curl.1: change example for -F [20]
 o HTTP2: Add a space character after the status code [21]
 o curl.1: use example.com more
 o mbedtls.c: changed private prefix to mbed_
 o mbedtls: implement and provide *_data_pending() to avoid hang [22]
 o mbedtls: fix MBEDTLS_DEBUG builds
 o ftp/imap/pop3/smtp: Allow the service name to be overridden
 o CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE: Merged with CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME
 o build: include scripts/ in the dist
 o http2: Add handling stream level error [23]
 o http2: Improve header parsing [24]
 o makefile.vc6: use d suffix on debug object [25]
 o configure: remove check for libresolve [30]
 o scripts/make: use $(EXEEXT) for executables [31]
 o checksrc: got rid of the whitelist files
 o sendf: added ability to call recv() before send() as workaround [32]
 o NTLM: check for NULL pointer before dereferencing [33]
 o openssl: builds with OpenSSL 1.1.0-pre5 [34]
 o configure: ac_cv_ -> curl_cv_ for all cached vars [35]
 o winbuild: add mbedtls support [36]
 o curl: make --ftp-create-dirs retry on failure [37]
 o PolarSSL: implement public key pinning
 o multi: accidentally used resolved host name instead of proxy [38]
 o CURLINFO_TLS_SESSION.3: clarify TLS library support before 7.48.0
 o CONNECT_ONLY: don't close connection on GSS 401/407 reponses [39]
 o opts: Fix some syntax errors in example code fragments [40]
 o mbedtls: Fix session resume [41]
 o test1139: verifies libcurl option man page presence
 o CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR.3: Clarify SSL pointer availability [42]
 o curl: make --disable work as long form of -q
 o curl: use --telnet-option as documented
 o curl.1: document --ftp-ssl-reqd, --krb4 and --ntlm-wb
 o curl: -h output lacked --proxy-header and --ntlm-wb
 o curl -J: make it work even without http:// scheme on URL [43]
 o lib: include curl_printf.h as one of the last headers [44]
 o tests: handle path properly on Msys/Cygwin [45]
 o curl.1: --mail-rcpt can be used multiple times [46]
 o CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3: clarified [47]
 o docs: fixed lots of broken man page references
 o tls: make setting pinnedkey option fail if not supported [48]
 o test1140: run nroff-scan to verify man pages
 o http: make sure a blank header overrides accept_decoding [49]
 o connections: do not reuse non-HTTP proxies on different ports [50]
 o connect: fix invalid "Network is unreachable" errors [51]
 o TLS: move the ALPN/NPN enable bits to the connection [52]
 o TLS: SSL_peek is not a const operation [53]
 o http2: Add space between colon and header value [54]
 o darwinssl: fix certificate verification disable on OS X 10.8 [55]
 o mprintf: Fix processing of width and prec args
 o ftp wildcard: segfault due to init only in multi_perform [56]

This release includes the following known bugs:

 o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (https://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, Alexis La Goutte, Anatol Belski, Anders Bakken,
  Antonio Larrosa, Bru Rom, Cory Benfield, Damien Vielpeau, Dan Cristian,
  Daniel Stenberg, David Benjamin, Diego Bes, Dusty Mabe, Evgeny Grin,
  Henrik Gaßmann, Irfan Adilovic, Isaac Boukris, Joel Depooter, John Wanghui,
  Jonathan Cardoso Machado, Joonas Kuorilehto, Juan RP, Kai Noda, Kamil Dudka,
  Leif W, Linus Nordberg, Marcel Raad, Marquis de Muesli, Michael Kaufmann,
  Michael Osipov, Moti Avrahami, Oleg Pudeyev, Patrick Monnerat, Per Malmberg,
  Ray Satiro, Rod Widdowson, Steve Holme, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, Theodore Dubois,
  Thomas Glanzmann, Travis Burtrum, Viktor Szakáts,
  (42 contributors)

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://twitter.com/xtraemeat/status/712564874098917376
 [2] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=724
 [3] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=619
 [4] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=731
 [5] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=677
 [6] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=620
 [7] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=492
 [8] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=736
 [9] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=738
 [10] = https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/issues/366
 [11] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=744
 [12] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=741
 [13] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=747
 [14] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=745
 [15] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=722
 [16] = https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--http2-prior-knowledge
 [17] = https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION.html
 [18] = https://curl.haxx.se/docs/http2.html
 [19] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=750
 [20] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=752
 [21] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=755
 [22] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=737
 [23] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=663
 [24] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=663
 [25] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=769
 [26] = https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO.html
 [27] = https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--connect-to
 [28] = https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_TCP_FASTOPEN.html
 [29] = https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--tcp-fastopen
 [30] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=770
 [31] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=771
 [32] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=657
 [33] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=765
 [34] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=763
 [35] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=766
 [36] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=606
 [37] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2016-04/0021.html
 [38] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-04/0084.html
 [39] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=655
 [40] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=779
 [41] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-04/0095.html
 [42] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-04/0126.html
 [43] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=760
 [44] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=743
 [45] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=675
 [46] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=784
 [47] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=785
 [48] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=781
 [49] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=785
 [50] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=648
 [51] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=794
 [52] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=789
 [53] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=795
 [54] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=797
 [55] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=802
 [56] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=800