RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.38.0

 Public curl releases:         140
 Command line options:         162
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   208
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Contributors:                 1155

This release includes the following changes:

 o bits.close: introduce connection close tracking
 o darwinssl: Add support for --cacert
 o polarssl: add ALPN support
 o 

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o build: Fixed incorrect reference to curl_setup.h in Visual Studio files
 o build: Use $(TargetDir) and $(TargetName) macros for .pdb and .lib output
 o curl.1: clarify that -u can't specify a user with colon [1]
 o openssl: Fix uninitialized variable use in NPN callback
 o curl_easy_reset: reset the URL [2]
 o curl_version_info.3: returns a pointer to a static struct
 o url-parser: only use if_nametoindex if detected by configure [3]
 o select: with winsock, avoid passing unsupported arguments to select() [4]
 o gnutls: don't use deprecated type names anymore
 o gnutls: allow building with nghttp2 but without ALPN support
 o 

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

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

  Brad Spencer, Chris Young, Daniel Stenberg, Fabian Frank,
  Jonathan Cardoso Machado, Nick Zitzman, Roman Neuhauser, Steve Holme,
  Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, Vilmos Nebehaj

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1375
 [2] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-05/0235.html
 [3] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-05/0260.html
 [4] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-05/0278.html