RELEASE-NOTES: synced

RELEASE-NOTES

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 curl and libcurl 7.77.0
 
  Public curl releases:         200
- Command line options:         240
+ Command line options:         242
  curl_easy_setopt() options:   288
  Public functions in libcurl:  85
- Contributors:                 2367
+ Contributors:                 2377
 
 This release includes the following changes:
 
@@ -14,18 +14,39 @@ This release includes the following changes:
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
+ o checksrc: complain on == NULL or != 0 checks in conditions [20]
+ o configure: make the TLS library choice(s) explicit [3]
  o configure: provide --with-openssl, deprecate --with-ssl [15]
+ o connect: use CURL_SA_FAMILY_T for portability [34]
+ o ConnectionExists: respect requests for h1 connections better
  o cookie: CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE set to NULL switches off cookies [1]
+ o curl_setup: provide the shutdown flags wider [33]
+ o http2: call the handle-closed function correctly on closed stream [37]
+ o http2: move the stream error field to the per-transfer storage [36]
+ o lib1564.c: enable last wakeup test part on Windows [26]
  o libssh2: fix Value stored to 'sshp' is never read [13]
  o libssh: fix "empty expression statement has no effect" warnings [7]
+ o multi: don't close connection HTTP_1_1_REQUIRED
+ o multi: fix slow write/upload performance on Windows [27]
+ o multi: reduce Win32 API calls to improve performance [28]
+ o NSS: add ciphers to map [30]
  o openldap: protect SSL-specific code with proper #ifdef [12]
  o openssl: fix build error with OpenSSL < 1.0.2 [4]
+ o os400: additional support for options metadata [24]
  o README.md: delete Codacy UTM parameters [5]
+ o Revert "Revert 'multi: implement wait using winsock events'" [26]
  o rustls: only return CURLE_AGAIN when TLS session is fully drained [2]
+ o schannel: Disable auto credentials; add an option to enable it [18]
+ o sectransp: allow cipher name to be specified [29]
+ o sws: #ifdef S_IFSOCK use [32]
+ o test server: take care of siginterrupt() deprecation [25]
+ o tests/disable-scan.pl: also scan all m4 files [17]
  o tool_getparam: replace (in-place) '%20' by '+' according to RFC1866 [14]
  o tool_operate: don't discard failed parallel transfer result [16]
  o tool_writeout: fix the HTTP_CODE json output [11]
  o urlapi: "normalize" numerical IPv4 host names [6]
+ o vauth: factor base64 conversions out of authentication procedures [22]
+ o vtls: deduplicate some DISABLE_PROXY ifdefs [19]
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -34,15 +55,20 @@ This release includes the following known bugs:
 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
-  Daniel Stenberg, Emil Engler, Georeth Zhou, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews,
+  Daniel Stenberg, Emil Engler, Georeth Zhou, Gergely Nagy,
-  Javier Blazquez, Michal Rus, Ray Satiro, Stefan Karpinski, Victor Vieux,
+  Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Javier Blazquez, Jeroen Ooms, Jon Rumsey,
-  Viktor Szakats,
+  Kevin R. Bulgrien, Marcel Raad, Marc Hörsken, Michael Kolechkin,
-  (10 contributors)
+  Michał Antoniak, Michal Rus, Morten Minde Neergaard, Patrick Monnerat,
+  Ralph Langendam, Ray Satiro, rcombs on github, Rich FitzJohn,
+  Stefan Karpinski, tmkk on github, Tommy Odom, Tuomas Siipola, Victor Vieux,
+  Viktor Szakats, Wes Hinsley,
+  (27 contributors)
 
 References to bug reports and discussions on issues:
 
  [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6889
  [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6894
+ [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6897
  [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6920
  [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6919
  [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6863
@@ -56,3 +82,20 @@ References to bug reports and discussions on issues:
  [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6895
  [15] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6887
  [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6921
+ [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=1165
+ [18] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=2262
+ [19] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6660
+ [20] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6912
+ [22] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6654
+ [24] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6574
+ [25] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6529
+ [26] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6245
+ [27] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6146
+ [28] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6146
+ [29] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6464
+ [30] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6670
+ [32] = https://curl.se/mail/lib-2021-04/0074.html
+ [33] = https://curl.se/mail/lib-2021-04/0073.html
+ [34] = https://curl.se/mail/lib-2021-04/0071.html
+ [36] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6910
+ [37] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6862