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Curl and libcurl 7.56.0
 Public curl releases:         169
 Command line options:         211
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   248
 Public functions in libcurl:  61
 Contributors:                 1600

This release includes the following changes:

 o curl: enable compression for SCP/SFTP with --compressed-ssh  [11]
 o libcurl: enable compression for SCP/SFTP with CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION [11]
This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o examples/ftpuploadresume.c: use portable code
 o runtests: match keywords case insensitively
 o travis: build the examples too [1]
 o strtoofft: reduce integer overflow risks globally [2]
 o zsh.pl: produce a working completion script again [3]
 o cmake: remove dead code for CURL_DISABLE_RTMP [4]
 o progress: Track total times following redirects [5]
 o configure: fix --disable-threaded-resolver [6]
 o cmake: remove dead code for DISABLED_THREADSAFE [7]
 o configure: fix clang version detection
 o darwinssi: fix error: variable length array used
 o travis: add metalink to some osx builds [8]
 o configure: check for __builtin_available() availability [9]
 o http_proxy: fix build error for CURL_DOES_CONVERSIONS [10]
 o examples/ftpuploadresume: checksrc compliance
 o ftp: fix CWD when doing multicwd then nocwd on same connection [12]
 o system.h: remove all CURL_SIZEOF_* defines [13]
 o http: Don't wait on CONNECT when there is no proxy [14]
 o system.h: check for __ppc__ as well [15]
 o http2_recv: return error better on fatal h2 errors [16]
 o scripts/contri*sh: use "git log --use-mailmap"
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:

  Benbuck Nason, Brian Carpenter, Daniel Stenberg, Gergely Nagy,
  Jakub Zakrzewski, Jan Alexander Steffens, Johannes Schindelin,
  joshhe on github, Kamil Dudka, Maksim Stsepanenka, Max Dymond, Nick Zitzmann,
  Peter Lamare, Ray Satiro, Ryan Schmidt, Ryan Winograd, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa,
  Viktor Szakáts,
  (18 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=1777
 [2] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1758
 [3] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1779
 [4] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1785
 [5] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1602
 [6] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1784
 [7] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1786
 [8] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1790
 [9] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1788
 [10] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1793
 [11] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1735
 [12] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1782
 [13] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1767
 [14] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1803
 [15] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1797
 [16] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1021