RELEASE-NOTES: synced with c4e3578e

Curl and libcurl 7.26.1

Curl and libcurl 7.27.0

 Public curl releases:         128

 Public curl releases:         128

 Command line options:         151

 Command line options:         152

 curl_easy_setopt() options:   199

 curl_easy_setopt() options:   199

 Public functions in libcurl:  58

 Public functions in libcurl:  58

 Known libcurl bindings:       39

 Known libcurl bindings:       39

 Contributors:                 929

 Contributors:                 953

This release includes the following changes:

This release includes the following changes:

 o nss: use human-readable error messages provided by NSS

 o nss: use human-readable error messages provided by NSS

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 o added --metalink for metalink download support

 o pop3: Added support for sasl ntlm authentication

 o pop3: Added support for sasl plain text authentication

This release includes the following bugfixes:

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o pop3: Fixed the issue of having to supply the user name for all requests

 o pop3: Fixed the issue of having to supply the user name for all requests

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 o configure: fix LDAPS disabling related misplaced closing parenthesis

 o cmdline: made -D option work with -O and -J

 o configure: Fix libcurl.pc and curl-config generation for static MingW*

   cross builds

This release includes the following known bugs:

This release includes the following known bugs:

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and

advice from friends like these:

advice from friends like these:

 Anthony Bryan, Guenter Knauf, Kamil Dudka, Steve Holme, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa,

 Yang Tse

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

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