curl and libcurl 8.16.1

 Public curl releases:         271
 Command line options:         272
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   308
 Public functions in libcurl:  98
 Contributors:                 3499

This release includes the following changes:


This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o curl_easy_getinfo: error code on NULL arg [2]
 o easy_getinfo: check magic, Curl_close safety [3]
 o quic: ignore EMSGSIZE on receive [4]

This release includes the following known bugs:

 See https://curl.se/docs/knownbugs.html

For all changes ever done in curl:

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

Planned upcoming removals include:

 o Builds using VS2008
 o OpenSSL 1.x support
 o Support for c-ares versions before 1.16.0
 o Support for Windows XP/2003
 o The winbuild build system
 o Windows CE support

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

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

  Daniel Stenberg, Ethan Everett, Stefan Eissing
  (3 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=18512
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=18511
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=18505