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HISTORY: add some milestones 

Added a few of the more notable milestones in curl history that were
missing. Primarily more recent ones but I also noted some older that
could be worth mentioning.

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 Gopher support added (re-added actually, see January 2006)

 Gopher support added (re-added actually, see January 2006)





2011

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February: added support for the axTLS backend



April: added the cyassl backend (later renamed to WolfSSL)



2012

2012

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 September: Web site had 245,000 unique visitors and served 236GB data

 September: Web site had 245,000 unique visitors and served 236GB data





2015

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 June: support for multiplexing with HTTP/2



 August: support for HTTP/2 server push



 December: Public Suffix List



2016

2016

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 January: the curl tool defaults to HTTP/2 for HTTPS URLs



 December: curl 7.52.0 introduced support for HTTPS-proxy!

 December: curl 7.52.0 introduced support for HTTPS-proxy!





 First TLS 1.3 support



2017

2017

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    curl_easy_setopt() options:   249

    curl_easy_setopt() options:   249

    Public functions in libcurl:  74

    Public functions in libcurl:  74

    Contributors:                 1609

    Contributors:                 1609



 October: SSLKEYLOGFILE support, new MIME API



 November: brotli



2018

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 January: new SSH backend powered by libssh



 March: starting with the 1803 release of Windows 10, curl is shipped bundled

 with Microsoft's operating system.



 July: curl shows headers using bold type face



 October: added DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and the URL API



 MesaLink is a new supported TLS backend



 libcurl now does HTTP/2 (and multiplexing) by default on HTTPS URLs



 curl and libcurl are installed in an estimated 5 *billion* instances

 world-wide.



 October 31: Curl and libcurl 7.62.0



    Public curl releases:         177

    Command line options:         219

    curl_easy_setopt() options:   261

    Public functions in libcurl:  80

    Contributors:                 1808