curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.61.0

 Public curl releases:         175
 Command line options:         215
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   255
 Public functions in libcurl:  74
 Contributors:                 1741

This release includes the following changes:

 o getinfo: add microsecond precise timers for seven intervals [3]
 o curl: show headers in bold, switch off with --no-styled-output [10]
 o httpauth: add support for Bearer tokens [16]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o schannel: disable client cert option if APIs not available [1]
 o schannel: disable manual verify if APIs not available
 o tests/libtest/Makefile: Do not unconditionally add gcc-specific flags [2]
 o openssl: acknowledge --tls-max for default version too [4]
 o stub_gssapi: fix 'unused parameter' warnings
 o examples/progressfunc: make it build on both new and old libcurls [5]
 o docs: mention it is HA Proxy protocol "version 1" [6]
 o curl_fnmatch: only allow two asterisks for matching [7]
 o docs: clarify CURLOPT_HTTPGET [8]
 o configure: replace a AC_TRY_RUN with CURL_RUN_IFELSE [9]
 o configure: do compile-time SIZEOF checks instead of run-time [9]
 o checksrc: make sure sizeof() is used *with* parentheses [11]
 o CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3: add brotli and clarify a bit
 o schannel: make CAinfo parsing resilient to CR/LF [12]
 o tftp: make sure error is zero terminated before printfing it
 o http resume: skip body if http code 416 (range error) is ignored [13]
 o configure: add basic test of --with-ssl prefix [14]
 o cmake: set -d postfix for debug builds [15]
 o multi: provide a socket to wait for in Curl_protocol_getsock [17]
 o content_encoding: handle zlib versions too old for Z_BLOCK [18]
 o winbuild: only delete OUTFILE if it exists [19]
 o winbuild: In MakefileBuild.vc fix typo DISTDIR->DIRDIST [20]
 o schannel: add failf calls for client certificate failures [21]
 o cmake: Fix the test for fsetxattr and strerror_r
 o curl.1: Fix cmdline-opts reference errors [22]
 o cmdline-opts/gen.pl: warn if mutexes: or see-also: list non-existing options
 o cmake: check for getpwuid_r [23]

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:

  Alejandro R. Sedeño, Archangel_SDY on github, Bernhard Walle,
  bsammon on github, Dagobert Michelsen, Daniel Stenberg, Frank Gevaerts,
  Ithubg on github, Johannes Schindelin, Linus Lewandowski, Max Savenkov,
  Oleg Pudeyev, Patrick Monnerat, Per Malmberg, Philip Prindeville, Ray Satiro,
  Richard Alcock, Sean Miller, Sergei Nikulov,
  (19 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=2522
 [2] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2576
 [3] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2495
 [4] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2571
 [5] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2584
 [6] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2579
 [7] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2587
 [8] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2590
 [9] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2586
 [10] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2538
 [11] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2563
 [12] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2592
 [13] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1163
 [14] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2580
 [15] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2121
 [16] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2102
 [17] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2018-05/0062.html
 [18] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2606
 [19] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2602
 [20] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2603
 [21] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2604
 [22] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2612
 [23] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=2609