curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.51.0

 Public curl releases:         160
 Command line options:         185
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   224
 Public functions in libcurl:  61
 Contributors:                 1445

This release includes the following changes:

 o nss: additional cipher suites are now accepted by CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST
 o New option: CURLOPT_KEEP_SENDING_ON_ERROR [10]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o openssl: fix per-thread memory leak using 1.0.1 or 1.0.2 [1]
 o http: accept "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" for HTTP/2 as well [2]
 o LICENSE-MIXING.md: update with mbedTLS dual licensing [3]
 o examples/imap-append: Set size of data to be uploaded [4]
 o test2048: fix url
 o darwinssl: disable RC4 cipher-suite support
 o CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY.3: fix the AVAILABILITY formatting
 o openssl: don’t call CRYTPO_cleanup_all_ex_data [5]
 o libressl: fix version output [6]
 o easy: Reset all statistical session info in curl_easy_reset [7]
 o curl_global_cleanup.3: don't unload the lib with sub threads running [8]
 o dist: add CurlSymbolHiding.cmake to the tarball
 o docs: Remove that --proto is just used for initial retrieval [9]
 o configure: Fixed builds with libssh2 in a custom location
 o curl.1: --trace supports % for sending to stderr!
 o cookies: same domain handling changed to match browser behavior [11]
 o formpost: trying to attach a directory no longer crashes [12]
 o CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION.3: fixed unused argument warning [13]
 o formpost: avoid silent snprintf() truncation
 o ftp: fix Curl_ftpsendf
 o mprintf: return error on too many arguments
 o smb: properly check incoming packet boundaries [14]
 o GIT-INFO: remove the Mac 10.1-specific details [15]
 o resolve: add error message when resolving using SIGALRM [16]
 o cmake: add nghttp2 support [17]
 o dist: remove PDF and HTML converted docs from the releases [18]
 o configure: detect the broken poll() in macOS 10.12 [19]
 o vtls: only re-use session-ids using the same scheme
 o pipelining: skip to-be-closed connections when pipelining [20]
 o win: fix Universal Windows Platform build [21]
 o curl: do not set CURLOPT_SSLENGINE to DEFAULT automatically [22]
 o maketgz: make it support "only" generating version info
 o Curl_socket_check: add extra check to avoid integer overflow
 o gopher: properly return error for poll failures
 o curl: set INTERLEAVEDATA too
 o polarssl: clear thread array at init
 o polarssl: fix unaligned SSL session-id lock
 o polarssl: reduce #ifdef madness with a macro

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:

  Akshay Vernekar, Alexander Sinditskiy, Andreas Streichardt, Bernard Spil,
  Dan Fandrich, Daniel Gustafsson, Daniel Stenberg, Darío Hereñú,
  David Woodhouse, Jeroen Ooms, Kamil Dudka, lukaszgn on github, Marcel Raad,
  Michael Kaufmann, Nick Zitzmann, nopjmp on github, Paul Joyce, Rainer Müller,
  Ray Satiro, Remo E, Rider Linden, Sebastian Mundry, Sergei Kuzmin,
  Stephen Brokenshire, Tobias Stoeckmann, Toby Peterson, Todd Short,
  Tony Kelman, Torben Dannhauer,
  (29 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=964
 [2] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1013
 [3] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1019
 [4] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1011
 [5] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-09/0045.html
 [6] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1029
 [7] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1017
 [8] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=997
 [9] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1031
 [10] = https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_KEEP_SENDING_ON_ERROR.html
 [11] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1050
 [12] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1053
 [13] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1056
 [14] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1052
 [15] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1049
 [16] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1066
 [17] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=922
 [18] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-10/0040.html
 [19] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1057
 [20] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1075
 [21] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1048
 [22] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1042