[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl, libcurl{4, -devel, -doc}, mingw64-{x86_64, i686}-curl 7.75

Cygwin curl Maintainer Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Sat Feb 6 20:39:46 GMT 2021


The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:

* curl			7.75
* libcurl4		7.75
* libcurl-devel		7.75
* libcurl-doc		7.75
* mingw64-x86_64-curl	7.75
* mingw64-i686-curl	7.75

Command line tool and Library supporting transferring files with
URL syntax, using FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, and
FILE, SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form
based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic,
Digest, NTLM, Negotiate...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a
busload of other useful tricks.

For more information see the project home page:

	https://curl.se/

As there are multiple components and many changes each release please
see below or read /usr/share/doc/curl/RELEASE-NOTES after installation
for complete details:

	https://curl.se/changes.html

curl and libcurl 7.75.0:

Public curl releases:		 197
Command line options:		 237
curl_easy_setopt() options:	 285
Public functions in libcurl:	  85
Contributors:			2322

This release includes the following changes:

o curl: add --create-file-mode [mode] [28]
o curl: add new variables to --write-out [25]
o dns: extend CURLOPT_RESOLVE syntax for adding non-permanent entries [53]
o gopher: implement secure gopher protocol [2]
o http: add Hyper as new optional HTTP backend [24]
o http: introduce AWS HTTP v4 Signature support [26]

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

This release includes the following bugfixes:

o badsymbols.pl: add verbose mode -v [31]
o badsymbols.pl: ignore stand-alone single hash lines [40]
o BUG-BOUNTY: minor language updates [5]
o build: fix djgpp builds [84]
o cleanup: fix empty expression statement has no effect
o cmake: Add an option to disable libidn2 [48]
o cmake: enable gophers correctly in curl-config [10]
o cmake: expose CURL_DISABLE_OPENSSL_AUTO_LOAD_CONFIG [32]
o cmdline-opts/gen.pl: return hard on errors [11]
o cmdline-opts/retry.d: mention response code 429 as well [47]
o configure: set -Wextra-semi-stmt for clang with --enable-debug [52]
o connect: defer port selection until connect() time [22]
o connect: mark intentional ignores of setsockopt return values [75]
o connect: on linux, enable reporting of all ICMP errors on UDP sockets [27]
o connect: zero variable on stack to silence valgrind complaint [23]
o cookie: avoid the C1001 internal compiler error with MSVC 14 [36]
o curl.1: fix typo microsft -> microsoft [56]
o curl: fix handling of -q option [39]
o curl: include the file name in --xattr/--remote-time error msgs
o curl: move fprintf outputs to warnf [105]
o Curl_chunker: shrink the struct [104]
o curl_easy_pause.3: add multiplexed pause effects [41]
o CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME.3: clarify [61]
o CURLOPT_URL.3: remove scheme specific details [12]
o digest_sspi: Show InitializeSecurityContext errors in verbose mode [8]
o docs/examples: adjust prototypes for CURLOPT_READFUNCTION [51]
o docs/URL-SYNTAX: the URL syntax curl accepts and works with [15]
o docs: enable syntax highlighting in several docs files [16]
o docs: fix line length bug in gen.pl [70]
o docs: fix typos in NEW-PROTOCOL.md [102]
o docs: fix wrong documentation in help.d [71]
o docs: remove redundant "better" in --fail help [55]
o doh: allocate state struct on demand [85]
o examples/libtest: add .checksrc to dist [14]
o examples: remove superfluous asterisk uses
o failf: remove newline from formatting strings [35]
o file: don't provide content-length for directories [49]
o getinfo: build with disabled HTTP support
o gitattributes: Set batch files to CRLF line endings on checkout [65]
o h2: do not wait for RECV on paused transfers [43]
o HISTORY: added dates to early history
o http: empty reply connection are not left intact [80]
o http: get CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET working with a HTTP proxy [83]
o http: have CURLOPT_FAILONERROR fail after all headers [54]
o http: make providing Proxy-Connection header not cause duplicated headers [92]
o http: show the request as headers even when split-sending [7]
o http_chunks: correct and clarify a comment on hexnumber length [88]
o http_proxy: Fix CONNECT chunked encoding race condition [76]
o httpauth: make multi-request auth work with custom port [45]
o INSTALL: now at 85 operating systems
o INSTALL: update the list known OSes and CPU archs curl has run on [38]
o lib/unit tests: add missing curl_global_cleanup() calls
o lib1564/5: verify that curl_multi_wakeup returns OK
o lib: pass in 'struct Curl_easy *' to most functions [101]
o lib: remove Curl_ prefix from many static functions [66]
o lib: save a bit of space with some structure packing [82]
o libssh2: fix "Value stored to 'readdir_len' is never read"
o libssh2: move data from connection object to transfer object [114]
o libssh: avoid plain free() of libssh-memory [99]
o mime: make sure setting MIMEPOST to NULL resets properly [58]
o misc: assorted typo fixes [57]
o misc: fix "warning: empty expression statement has no effect" [30]
o misc: fix typos [73]
o mk-ca-bundle.pl: deterministic output when using -t [62]
o mqtt: deal with 0 byte reads correctly [4]
o mqtt: handle POST/PUBLISH without a set POSTFIELDSIZE [1]
o multi: set the PRETRANSFER time-stamp when we switch to PERFORM [59]
o multi: skip DONE state if there's no connection left for ftp wildcard
o multi: when erroring in TOOFAST state, act as for PERFORM [9]
o multi_runsingle: bail out early on data->conn == NULL [74]
o ngtcp2: Fix http3 upload stall [106]
o ngtcp2: Fix stack buffer overflow [107]
o ngtcp2: make it build it current master again [21]
o nss: get the run-time version instead of build-time [67]
o openssl: lowercase the hostname before using it for SNI [46]
o OS400: update ccsidcurl.c [20]
o pretransfer: setup the User-Agent header here [60]
o quiche: remove fprintf() leftover
o Revert "CI/github: work-around for brew breakage on macOS" [17]
o runtests: add 'wakeup' as a feature
o runtests: add support for %if [feature] conditions [19]
o runtests: preprocess DISABLED to allow conditionals [93]
o schannel: plug a memory-leak [64]
o schannel_verify: fix safefree call typo [50]
o select: convert Curl_select() to private static function [103]
o socks: use the download buffer instead [86]
o speedcheck: exclude paused transfers [42]
o strerror: skip errnum >= 0 assertion on windows [78]
o test1522: add debug tracing [3]
o test1633: set appropriate name
o test179: use consistent header line endings
o test410: verify HTTPS GET with a 49K request header
o tests/mqttd: extract the client id from the correct offset [13]
o tests: make --libcurl tests only test FTP options if ftp enabled [18]
o tool_doswin: Restore original console settings on CTRL signal [68]
o tool_operate: fix the suppression logic of some error messages [33]
o tool_operate: spellfix a comment
o tooĺ_writeout: fix the -w time output units [6]
o transfer: fix GCC 10 warning with flag '-Wint-in-bool-context' [79]
o travis: build ngtcp2 --with-gnutls [72]
o travis: limit the tests with quiche builds to HTTPS and FTPS only [44]
o travis: restrict the openssl3 job to only run https and ftps tests [34]
o url: if IDNA conversion fails, fallback to Transitional [29]
o urldata: make magic be the first struct field [87]
o urldata: remove 'local_ip' from the connectdata struct [97]
o urldata: remove duplicate 'upkeep_interval_ms' from connectdata [96]
o urldata: remove duplicate port number storage [98]
o urldata: remove the duplicate 'ip_addr_str' field [100]
o urldata: store ip version in a single byte [95]
o vtls: remove md5sum [69]
o warnless: remove curlx_ultosi [108]
o wolfssl: add SECURE_RENEGOTIATION support [63]
o wolfssl: Support wolfSSL builds missing TLS 1.1 [37]



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