Curl and libcurl 7.55.1

 Public curl releases:         168
 Command line options:         210
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   247
 Public functions in libcurl:  61
 Contributors:                 1592

This release includes the following changes:

 o

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o build: fix 'make install' with configure, install docs/libcurl/* too
 o make install: add 8 missing man pages to the installation
 o curl: do bounds check using a double comparison [1]
 o dist: Add dictserver.py/negtelnetserver.py to release [2]
 o digest_sspi: Don't reuse context if the user/passwd has changed [3]
 o gitignore: ignore top-level .vs folder [4]
 o build: check out *.sln files with Windows line endings [5]
 o travis: verify "make install" [6]
 o dist: fix the cmake build by shipping cmake_uninstall.cmake.in too [7]
 o metalink: fix error: ‘*’ in boolean context, suggest ‘&&’ instead
 o configure: use the threaded resolver backend by default if possible [8]
 o mkhelp.pl: allow executing this script directly [9]
 o maketgz: remove old *.dist files before making the tarball [10]
 o openssl: remove CONST_ASN1_BIT_STRING [11]
 o openssl: fix "error: this statement may fall through"

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

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

  Adam Sampson, Bernard Spil, Christian Weisgerber, Daniel Krügler,
  Daniel Stenberg, David Benjamin, Isaac Boukris, Marcel Raad,
  paulharris on github, Ray Satiro,
  (10 contributors)

        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1750
 [2] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1744
 [3] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1742
 [4] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1746
 [5] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1746
 [6] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1753
 [7] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1755
 [8] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1647
 [9] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1743
 [10] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-08/0050.html
 [11] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1759
