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RELEASE-NOTES

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@@ -2,15 +2,16 @@ 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

 curl_easy_setopt() options:   249

 Public functions in libcurl:  80

 Contributors:                 1609



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]

 o vtls: added dynamic changing SSL backend with curl_global_sslset() [28]

 o new MIME API, curl_mime_init() and friends [32]



This release includes the following bugfixes:
@@ -52,6 +53,10 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes: 
 o strtooff: fix build for systems with long long but no strtoll [27]

 o asyn-thread: Improved cleanup after OOM situations

 o HELP-US.md: "How to get started helping out in the curl project" [29]

 o curl.h: CURLSSLBACKEND_WOLFSSL used wrong value [30]

 o unit1301: fix error message on first test

 o ossfuzz: moving towards the ideal integration [31]

 o http: fix a memory leakage in checkrtspprefix()



This release includes the following known bugs:
@@ -60,14 +65,14 @@ This release includes the following known bugs: 
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and

advice from friends like these:



  Benbuck Nason, Benjamin Sergeant, Bill Pyne, Brian Carpenter, Dan Fandrich,

  Daniel Stenberg, Even Rouault, Frank Denis, Gergely Nagy, Gisle Vanem,

  Jakub Zakrzewski, Jan Alexander Steffens, Johannes Schindelin,

  Andrei Karas, Benbuck Nason, Benjamin Sergeant, Bill Pyne, Brian Carpenter,

  Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, Even Rouault, Frank Denis, Gergely Nagy,

  Gisle Vanem, Jakub Zakrzewski, Jan Alexander Steffens, Johannes Schindelin,

  John David Anglin, joshhe on github, Kamil Dudka, Maksim Stsepanenka,

  Marcel Raad, Max Dymond, Michael Smith, Nick Zitzmann, Peter Lamare,

  Ray Satiro, Ryan Schmidt, Ryan Winograd, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, Viktor Szakáts,

  Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin,

  (27 contributors)

  Marcel Raad, Max Dymond, Michael Smith, Nick Zitzmann,

  Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin, Patrick Monnerat, Peter Lamare, Ray Satiro,

  Rich Gray, Ryan Schmidt, Ryan Winograd, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, Viktor Szakáts,

  (31 contributors)



        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
@@ -102,3 +107,6 @@ References to bug reports and discussions on issues: 
 [27] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1829

 [28] = https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_global_sslset.html

 [29] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1837

 [30] = https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-08/0120.html

 [31] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1842

 [32] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=1839