curl/RELEASE-NOTES

curl and libcurl 8.11.2

 Public curl releases:         264
 Command line options:         266
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   306
 Public functions in libcurl:  94
 Contributors:                 3308

This release includes the following changes:

 o curl: add byte range support to --variable reading from file [56]
 o curl: make --etag-save acknowledge --create-dirs [31]
 o getinfo: fix CURLINFO_QUEUE_TIME_T and add 'time_queue' var [55]
 o hyper: drop support [57]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o altsvc: avoid integer overflow in expire calculation [16]
 o async-thread: avoid closing eventfd twice [9]
 o binmode: convert to macro and use it from tests [44]
 o build: drop unused feature macros, update exception list [51]
 o cd2nroff: support "none" as a TLS backend [29]
 o checksrc: ban use of sscanf() [7]
 o checksrc: fix the return() checker [35]
 o cmake/FindMbedTLS: drop lib duplicates early [17]
 o cmake: add LDAP Find module [46]
 o cmake: add native `pkg-config` detection for remaining Find modules [37]
 o cmake: clang-cl improvements [42]
 o cmake: drop redundant FOUND checks (libgsasl, libssh, libuv) [49]
 o cmake: drop redundant opening/closing `.*` from `MATCH` expressions [64]
 o cmake: extend zlib's `AUTO` option to brotli, zstd and enable if found [36]
 o cmake: improve `curl_dumpvars()` and move to `Utilities.cmake` [50]
 o cmake: make libpsl required by default [45]
 o cmake: namespace functions and macros [41]
 o cmake: replace `unset(VAR)` with `set(VAR "")` for init [43]
 o cmake: use `CMAKE_REQUIRED_LINK_DIRECTORIES` [48]
 o config-mac: drop `MACOS_SSL_SUPPORT` macro [63]
 o conncache: result_cb comment removed from function docs [1]
 o cookie: parse only the exact expire date [3]
 o curl: return error if etag options are used with multiple URLs [5]
 o CURLOPT_RESOLVE.md: fix wording [30]
 o docs/BUGS.md: remove leading space from a link
 o examples/complicated: fix warnings, bump deprecated callback, tidy up [59]
 o examples/synctime.c: remove references to dead URLs and functionality [62]
 o examples: make them compile with compatibility functions disabled (Windows) [58]
 o http_aws_sigv4: Fix invalid compare function handling zero-length pairs [24]
 o lib517: extend the getdate test with quotes and leading "junk" [4]
 o lib: replace `inline` redefine with `CURL_INLINE` macro [47]
 o lib: supress deprecation warnings in apple builds [32]
 o lib: TLS session ticket caching reworked [60]
 o Makefile.mk: drop in favour of autotools and cmake (MS-DOS, AmigaOS3) [38]
 o multissl: make openssl + wolfssl builds work [34]
 o netrc: fix password-only entries [28]
 o netrc: restore _netrc fallback logic [6]
 o RELEASE-PROCEDURE.md: mention how to publish security advisories [2]
 o scripts/mdlinkcheck: markdown link checker [19]
 o sectransp: free certificate on error [12]
 o strparse: string parsing helper functions [8]
 o system.h: add 64-bit curl_off_t definitions for NonStop [11]
 o tests/http/clients: use proper sleep() call on NonStop [10]
 o tool_formparse.c: make curlx_uztoso a static in here [39]
 o tool_formparse: accept digits in --form type= strings [33]
 o tool_getparam: fix "Ignored Return Value" [21]
 o tool_getparam: fix memory leak on error in parse_ech [14]
 o tool_getparam: fix the ECH parser [20]
 o tool_operate: make --etag-compare always accept a non-existing file [22]
 o variable.md: mention --expand-variable for variables to variables [13]
 o variable.md: show function use with examples [18]
 o vtls: remove 'detach/attach' functions from TLS handler struct [25]
 o vtls: remove unusued 'check_cxn' from TLS handler struct [26]
 o vtls: replace "none"-functions with NULL pointers [27]
 o VULN-DISCLOSURE-POLICY.md: mention the not setting CVSS [23]
 o ws-docs: remove the outdated texts saying ws support is experimental [15]

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

For all changes ever done in curl:

 See https://curl.se/changes.html

Planned upcoming removals include:

 o TLS libraries not supporting TLS 1.3

 See https://curl.se/dev/deprecate.html for details

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

  Andy Pan, Ben Zanin, Christian Heusel, Christian Schmitz, Daniel Stenberg,
  Darren Banfi, dwickr, Hermes Zhang, IcedCoffeee on github, Kai Pastor,
  Kevin Sun, Kuan-Wei Chiu, Manuel Einfalt, Mohammed Sadiq, Randall S. Becker,
  Ray Satiro, renovate[bot], Samuel Henrique, Stefan Eissing, Tamir Duberstein,
  Viktor Szakats
  (21 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15720
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15714
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15709
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15708
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15729
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15734
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15687
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15692
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15725
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15711
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15723
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15721
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15752
 [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15753
 [15] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15749
 [16] = https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/383911309
 [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15495
 [18] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15743
 [19] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15742
 [20] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15741
 [21] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15740
 [22] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15737
 [23] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15779
 [24] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15778
 [25] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15776
 [26] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15775
 [27] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15772
 [28] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15767
 [29] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15769
 [30] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15770
 [31] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15730
 [32] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15763
 [33] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15761
 [34] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15596
 [35] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15764
 [36] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15431
 [37] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15408
 [38] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15543
 [39] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15796
 [41] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15498
 [42] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15478
 [43] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15255
 [44] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15787
 [45] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15464
 [46] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15273
 [47] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15523
 [48] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15280
 [49] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15465
 [50] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15562
 [51] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15577
 [55] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15512
 [56] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15739
 [57] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15120
 [58] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15789
 [59] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15785
 [60] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15774
 [62] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15786
 [63] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15777
 [64] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=15773