curl/RELEASE-NOTES

curl and libcurl 7.74.0

 Public curl releases:         196
 Command line options:         235
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   284
 Public functions in libcurl:  85
 Contributors:                 2278

This release includes the following changes:

 o hsts: add support for Strict-Transport-Security [37]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o acinclude: detect manually set minimum macos/ipod version [46]
 o alt-svc: enable (in the build) by default [20]
 o checksrc: warn on empty line before open brace [13]
 o CI/appveyor: disable test 571 in two cmake builds [22]
 o CI/azure: improve on flakiness by avoiding libtool wrappers [7]
 o CI/tests: enable test target on TravisCI for CMake builds [38]
 o CI/travis: add brotli and zstd to the libssh2 build [27]
 o cmake: call the feature unixsockets without dash [26]
 o cmake: make BUILD_TESTING dependent option [30]
 o cmake: set the unicode feature in curl-config on Windows [23]
 o cmake: store IDN2 information in curl_config.h [25]
 o configure: use pkgconfig to find openSSL when cross-compiling [28]
 o connect: repair build without ipv6 availability [19]
 o curl.1: add an "OUTPUT" section at the top of the manpage [32]
 o curl_url_set.3: fix typo in the RETURN VALUE section [3]
 o CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE.3: fix typo [34]
 o CURLOPT_NOBODY.3: fix typo [6]
 o CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY.3: fix comment in example code [8]
 o CURLOPT_URL.3: clarify SCP/SFTP URLs are for uploads as well
 o gnutls: fix memory leaks (certfields memory wasn't released) [41]
 o header.d: mention the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" handling [45]
 o http3: fix two build errors, silence warnings [10]
 o http: pass correct header size to debug callback for chunked post [44]
 o libcurl.pc: make it relocatable [15]
 o libssh2: fix build with disabled proxy support [17]
 o libssh2: fix transport over HTTPS proxy [31]
 o libssh2: require version 1.0 or later [24]
 o Makefile.m32: add support for HTTP/3 via ngtcp2+nghttp3 [11]
 o openssl: acknowledge SRP disabling in configure properly [9]
 o os400: Sync libcurl API options [5]
 o packages/OS400: make the source code-style compliant [4]
 o range.d: clarify that curl will not parse multipart responses [36]
 o range.d: fix typo
 o runtests: return error if no tests ran [16]
 o runtests: revert the mistaken edit of $CURL
 o runtests: show keywords when no tests ran [33]
 o src/tool_filetime: disable -Wformat on mingw for this file [2]
 o strerror: use 'const' as the string should never be modified [18]
 o test122[12]: remove these two tests [1]
 o tests: add missing global_init/cleanup calls [42]
 o tests: fix some http/2 tests for older versions of nghttpx [47]
 o tool_debug_cb: do not assume zero-terminated data
 o tool_help: make "output" description less confusing [21]
 o tool_operate: --retry for HTTP 408 responses too [43]
 o tool_operate: bail out proper on errors during parallel transfers [29]
 o tool_operate: fix compiler warning when --libcurl is disabled [12]
 o travis: use valgrind when running tests for debug builds [40]
 o urlapi: URL encode a '+' in the query part [14]

This release includes the following known bugs:

 o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (https://curl.se/docs/knownbugs.html)

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:

  b9a1 on github, Baruch Siach, Basuke Suzuki, BrumBrum on hackerone,
  Cristian Morales Vega, Daniel Stenberg, Dietmar Hauser, Dirk Wetter,
  Emil Engler, hamstergene on github, Harry Sintonen, Jon Rumsey,
  José Joaquín Atria, Marcel Raad, Marc Hörsken, Philipp Klaus Krause,
  Ray Satiro, Rui LIU, Sergei Nikulov, Tom G. Christensen, Viktor Szakats,
  (21 contributors)

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6080
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6079
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6102
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6085
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6083
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6097
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6049
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6096
 [9] = https://curl.se/mail/lib-2020-10/0037.html
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6093
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6092
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6095
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6088
 [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6086
 [15] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6061
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6053
 [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6125
 [18] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6068
 [19] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6069
 [20] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=5868
 [21] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6118
 [22] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6119
 [23] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6117
 [24] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6116
 [25] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6108
 [26] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6108
 [27] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6105
 [28] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6145
 [29] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6141
 [30] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6072
 [31] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6113
 [32] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6134
 [33] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6126
 [34] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6131
 [36] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6124
 [37] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=5896
 [38] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6074
 [40] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6154
 [41] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6153
 [42] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6156
 [43] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6155
 [44] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6147
 [45] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6148
 [46] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6138
 [47] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=6139