curl/RELEASE-NOTES

curl and libcurl 7.71.0

 Public curl releases:         192
 Command line options:         231
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   270
 Public functions in libcurl:  82
 Contributors:                 2172

This release includes the following changes:

 o CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS: optional use of Windows' CA store (with openssl) [10]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o *_sspi: fix bad uses of CURLE_NOT_BUILT_IN [21]
 o appveyor: disable flaky test 1501 and ignore broken 1056
 o appveyor: disable test 1139 instead of ignoring it
 o asyn-*: remove support for never-used NULL entry pointers [19]
 o cirrus: disable SFTP and SCP tests [7]
 o connect: make happy eyeballs work for QUIC (again) [16]
 o doc: add missing closing parenthesis in CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT.3 [5]
 o doc: Rename VERSIONS to VERSIONS.md as it already has Markdown syntax [20]
 o docs/HTTP3: add qlog to the quiche build instruction
 o dynbuf: introduce internal generic dynamic buffer functions [17]
 o examples: remove asiohiper.cpp [4]
 o GnuTLS: Backend support for CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT [9]
 o http2: simplify and clean up trailer handling [6]
 o libssh2: set the expected total size in SCP upload init [2]
 o libtest/cmake: Remove commented code [13]
 o ngtcp2: introduce qlog support [23]
 o quiche: enable qlog output [14]
 o runtests: remove sleep calls [18]
 o runtests: show elapsed test time with higher precision (ms)
 o select: fix overflow protection in Curl_socket_check [22]
 o sockfilt: make select_ws stop waiting on exit signal event
 o test1177: look for curl.h in source directory [1]
 o test613.pl: make tests 613 and 614 work with OpenSSH for Windows [8]
 o test75: Remove precheck test
 o tests: add support for SSH server variant specific transfer paths [24]
 o tests: make test 1248 + 1249 use %NOLISTENPORT [3]
 o tests: pick a random port number for SSH [12]
 o tests: run stunnel for HTTPS and FTPS on dynamic ports [11]
 o travis: add "qlog" as feature in the quiche build
 o urlapi: accept :: as a valid IPv6 address [15]

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:

  Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, Emil Engler, Gilles Vollant, Kamil Dudka,
  Kane York, Lucas Pardue, Marc Hörsken, Michael Kaufmann, Murugan Balraj,
  Pavel Volgarev, Peter Wang, Ray Satiro, Rikard Falkeborn, rl1987 on github,
  (15 contributors)

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5310
 [2] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2020-05/0000.html
 [3] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5318
 [4] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5090
 [5] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5320
 [6] = https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=22030
 [7] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5315
 [8] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5328
 [9] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5287
 [10] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=4346
 [11] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5267
 [12] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5273
 [13] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5311
 [14] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5341
 [15] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5344
 [16] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5334
 [17] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5300
 [18] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5323
 [19] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5324
 [20] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5325
 [21] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5355
 [22] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5286
 [23] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5353
 [24] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5298