curl and libcurl 8.6.1

 Public curl releases:         255
 Command line options:         258
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   304
 Public functions in libcurl:  93
 Contributors:                 3078

This release includes the following changes:

 o configure: add --disable-docs flag [16]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o ALTSVC.md: correct a typo [14]
 o asyn-thread: use wakeup_close to close the read descriptor [1]
 o cmdline-docs/Makefile: avoid using a fixed temp file name [5]
 o configure: do not link with nghttp3 unless necessary [7]
 o connect.c: fix typo [17]
 o cookie.md: provide an example sending a fixed cookie [13]
 o docs: add missing slashes to SChannel client certificate documentation [11]
 o docs: remove `mk-ca-bundle.1` from `man_MANS` [21]
 o form-string.md: correct the example [4]
 o ftp: treat a 226 arriving before data as a signal to read data [19]
 o HTTP/2: write response directly [12]
 o libcurl-security.md: Active FTP passes on the local IP address [6]
 o md4: include strdup.h for the memdup proto [10]
 o ntml_wb: fix buffer type typo [2]
 o openssl-quic: check on Windows that socket conv to int is possible [8]
 o OS400: avoid using awk in the build scripts [20]
 o proxy1.0.md: fix example [15]
 o sendf: ignore response body to HEAD [18]
 o tool_cb_hdr: only parse etag + content-disposition for 2xx [9]
 o tool_operate: do not set CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT in debug builds [3]

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

 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:

  Boris Verkhovskiy, Chris Webb, Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg,
  Dmitry Tretyakov, Erik Schnetter, Faraz Fallahi, Harry Sintonen, Jan Macku,
  Joel Depooter, Jon Rumsey, Lars Kellogg-Stedman, Lukáš Zaoral,
  Patrick Monnerat, Ryan Carsten Schmidt, Sergey Bronnikov, Stefan Eissing
  (17 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12836
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12825
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12834
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12822
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12829
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12867
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12833
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12861
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12866
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12849
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12854
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12828
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12868
 [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12852
 [15] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12856
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12832
 [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12858
 [18] = https://curl.se/mail/lib-2024-02/0000.html
 [19] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12823
 [20] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12826
 [21] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=12843