curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.38.0

 Public curl releases:         140
 Command line options:         162
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   208
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Contributors:                 1155

This release includes the following changes:

 o bits.close: introduce connection close tracking
 o darwinssl: Add support for --cacert
 o polarssl: add ALPN support
 o 

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o build: Fixed incorrect reference to curl_setup.h in Visual Studio files
 o build: Use $(TargetDir) and $(TargetName) macros for .pdb and .lib output
 o curl.1: clarify that -u can't specify a user with colon [1]
 o openssl: Fix uninitialized variable use in NPN callback
 o curl_easy_reset: reset the URL [2]
 o curl_version_info.3: returns a pointer to a static struct
 o url-parser: only use if_nametoindex if detected by configure [3]
 o select: with winsock, avoid passing unsupported arguments to select() [4]
 o gnutls: don't use deprecated type names anymore
 o gnutls: allow building with nghttp2 but without ALPN support
 o tests: Fix portability issue with the tftpd server
 o curl_sasl_sspi: Fixed corrupt hostname in DIGEST-MD5 SPN
 o curl_sasl: extended native DIGEST-MD5 cnonce to be a 32-byte hex string
 o random: use Curl_rand() for proper random data [5]
 o Curl_ossl_init: call OPENSSL_config for initing engines [6]
 o config-win32.h: Updated for VC12 [7]
 o winbuild: Don't USE_WINSSL when WITH_SSL is being used
 o getinfo: HTTP CONNECT code not reset between transfers [8]
 o Curl_rand: Use a fake entropy for debug builds when CURL_ENTROPY set
 o nss: do not abort on connection failure (failing tests 305 and 404)
 o nss: make the fallback to SSLv3 work again
 o tool: prevent valgrind from reporting possibly lost memory (nss only)
 o 

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 Spencer, Chris Young, Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg,
  Dmitry Falko, Fabian Frank, Jonathan Cardoso Machado, Marcel Raad,
  Nick Zitzmann, Steve Holme, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, Vilmos Nebehaj

        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=1375
 [2] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-05/0235.html
 [3] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-05/0260.html
 [4] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-05/0278.html
 [5] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-06/0001.html
 [6] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-06/0003.html
 [7] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1378
 [8] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1380