curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.55.0

 Public curl releases:         167
 Command line options:         210
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   247
 Public functions in libcurl:  61
 Contributors:                 1571

This release includes the following changes:

 o curl: allow --header and --proxy-header read from file [7]
 o getinfo: provide sizes as curl_off_t [6]
 o curl: prevent binary output spewed to terminal [16]
 o curl: added --request-target [22]
 o libcurl: added CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET [22]
 o curl: added --socks5-{basic,gssapi}: control socks5 auth [30]
 o libcurl: added CURLOPT_SOCKS5_AUTH [30]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o includes: remove curl/curlbuild.h and curl/curlrules.h [1]
 o dist: make the hugehelp.c not get regenerated unnecessarily [2]
 o timers: store internal time stamps as time_t instead of doubles [3]
 o progress: let "current speed" be UL + DL speeds combined [4]
 o http-proxy: do the HTTP CONNECT process entirely non-blocking [5]
 o lib/curl_setup.h: remove CURL_WANTS_CA_BUNDLE_ENV [8]
 o fuzz: bring oss-fuzz initial code converted to C89 [10]
 o configure: disable nghttp2 too if HTTP has been disabled
 o mk-ca-bundle.pl: Check curl's exit code after certdata download [11]
 o test1148: verify the -# progressbar [12]
 o tests: stabilize test 2032 and 2033 [13]
 o HTTPS-Proxy: don't offer h2 for https proxy connections [14]
 o http-proxy: only attempt FTP over HTTP proxy [9]
 o curl-compilers.m4: enable vla warning for clang [15]
 o curl-compilers.m4: enable double-promotion warning [15]
 o curl-compilers.m4: enable missing-variable-declarations clang warning [15]
 o curl-compilers.m4: enable comma clang warning [15]
 o Makefile.m32: enable -W for MinGW32 build [15]
 o CURLOPT_PREQUOTE: not supported for SFTP [17]
 o http2: fix OOM crash
 o PIPELINING_SERVER_BL: cleanup the internal list use [18]
 o mkhelp.pl: fix script name in usage text
 o lib1521: add curl_easy_getinfo calls to the test set
 o travis: do the distcheck test build out-of-tree as well
 o if2ip: fix compiler warning in ISO C90 mode
 o lib: fix the djgpp build [19]
 o typecheck-gcc: add support for CURLINFO_OFF_T [20]
 o travis: enable typecheck-gcc warnings [21]
 o maketgz: switch to xz instead of lzma [23]
 o CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL.3: mention the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS case
 o curl-compilers.m4: fix unknown-warning-option on Apple clang [24]
 o winbuild: fix boringssl build [25]
 o curl/system.h: add check for XTENSA for 32bit gcc [26]
 o test1537: fixed memory leak on OOM
 o test1521: fix compiler warnings [27]
 o curl: fix memory leak on test 1147 OOM [28]
 o libtest/make: generate lib1521.c dynamically at build-time [29]

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, Evert Pot, Frederik B, Gisle Vanem,
  Henrik S. Gaßmann, Jakub Wilk, Kamil Dudka, Marcel Raad, Matteo B.,
  Michael Kaufmann, Neil Kolban, Pascal Terjan, Paul Harris, Ray Satiro,
  Simon Warta, Timothe Litt,
  (17 contributors)

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/15/target-independent-libcurl-headers/
 [2] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1565
 [3] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1531
 [4] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1556
 [5] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1547
 [6] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1511
 [7] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1486
 [8] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1538
 [9] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1505
 [10] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1476
 [11] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1577
 [12] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1569
 [13] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1576
 [14] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1546
 [15] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1578
 [16] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1512
 [17] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1514
 [18] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1584
 [19] = https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/73a2fcea0b4adea6ba342cd7ed1149782c214ae3#commitcomment-22655993
 [20] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1592
 [21] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1595
 [22] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1593
 [23] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1604
 [24] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1606
 [25] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1610
 [26] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1598
 [27] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1611
 [28] = https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1486#issuecomment-310926872
 [29] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1614
 [30] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1454