curl and libcurl 8.4.0

 Public curl releases:         252
 Command line options:         257
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   303
 Public functions in libcurl:  92
 Contributors:                 2976

This release includes the following changes:


This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o escape: replace Curl_isunreserved with ISUNRESERVED [2]
 o quiche: fix build error with --with-ca-fallback [1]
 o test1056: disable on Windows
 o test1592: greatly increase the maximum test timeout
 o test2600: remove special case handling for USE_ALARM_TIMEOUT [3]
 o test650: fix an end tag typo
 o test661: return from test early in case of curl error
 o tests: improve SLOWDOWN test reliability by reducing sent data
 o tests: stop overriding the lock timeout
 o tool_cb_wrt: fix debug assertion [4]

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

Planned upcoming removals include:

 o support for space-separated NOPROXY patterns
 o support for the original legacy mingw version 1

 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:

  Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, Douglas R. Reno, Gisle Vanem, John Haugabook,
  Junho Choi, Ray Satiro
  (7 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11850
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11846
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11767
 [4] = https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/af3f4e41#r127212213