RELEASE-NOTES

curl and libcurl 8.0.0

 Public curl releases:         214
 Command line options:         250
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   302
 Public functions in libcurl:  91
 Contributors:                 2824

This release includes the following changes:

 o

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o .cirrus.yml: Bump to FreeBSD 13.2 [9]
 o BINDINGS: add Fortran binding [33]
 o CI: update ngtcp2 and nghttp2 for pytest [13]
 o cookie: parse without sscanf()
 o curl: make -w's %{stderr} use the file set with --stderr [30]
 o CURLOPT_PIPEWAIT: allow waited reuse also for subsequent connections [10]
 o docs/cmdline-opts: mark all global options [6]
 o ftp: make the EPSV response parser not use sscanf [25]
 o ftp: replace sscanf for MDTM 213 response parsing [23]
 o ftp: replace sscanf for PASV parsing [24]
 o GHA: add Microsoft C++ Code Analysis [7]
 o http: rewrite the status line parser without sscanf [29]
 o http_proxy: parse the status line without sscanf [16]
 o krb5: avoid sscanf for parsing [18]
 o lib517: verify time stamps without leading zeroes plus some more
 o misc: remove support for curl_off_t < 8 bytes [19]
 o ngtcp2-gnutls.yml: bump to gnutls 3.8.0 [11]
 o ngtcp2: fix unwanted close of file descriptor 0 [26]
 o parsedate: parse strings without using sscanf() [2]
 o parsedate: replace sscanf( for time stamp parsing [1]
 o rtsp: avoid sscanf for parsing [15]
 o sectransp: fix compiler warning c89 mixed code/declaration [32]
 o select: stop treating POLLRDBAND as an error [27]
 o telnet: parse NEW_ENVIRON without sscanf [20]
 o telnet: parse telnet options without sscanf [22]
 o telnet: parse the WS= argument without sscanf [21]
 o test2600: detect when ALARM_TIMEOUT is in use and adjust [34]
 o tests: HTTP server fixups [3]
 o tool_getparam: don't add a new node for just --no-remote-name [5]
 o tool_operate: avoid fclose(NULL) on bad header dump file [12]
 o tool_operate: propagate error codes for missing URL after --next [4]
 o tool_progress: shut off progress meter for --silent in parallel [8]
 o winbuild: fix makefile clean [31]

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

Planned upcoming removals include:

 o gskit
 o NSS
 o support for space-separated NOPROXY patterns
 o support for systems without 64 bit data types

 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 Alt, Daniel Stenberg, finkjsc on github, Harry Sintonen,
  Jérémy Rabasco, Marcel Raad, Matt Jolly, opensslonzos-github on github,
  Philip Heiduck, Philipp Engel, Ray Satiro, Sergey Fionov, Stefan Eissing,
  u20221022 on github
  (14 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10547
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10547
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10568
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10558
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10564
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10566
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10583
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10573
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10270
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10456
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10507
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10570
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10508
 [15] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10605
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10602
 [18] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10599
 [19] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10597
 [20] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10596
 [21] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10596
 [22] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10596
 [23] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10590
 [24] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10590
 [25] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10590
 [26] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10593
 [27] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10501
 [29] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10585
 [30] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10491
 [31] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10576
 [32] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10574
 [33] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10589
 [34] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=10513