was committed just now!

  curl_easy_setopt: CURLOPT_USERNAME and CURLOPT_PASSWORD that sort of
  deprecates the good old CURLOPT_USERPWD since they allow applications to set
  the user name and password independently and perhaps more importantly allow
  both to contain colon(s) which CURLOPT_USERPWD doesn't fully support.

CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL leaking memory and returning incorrect results when
two URLs are requested. Reported by vmpdemo in bug #2152270

a fresh connection to be made in such cases and the request retransmitted.
This should fix test case 160.  Added test case 1079 in an attempt to
test a similar connection dropping scenario, but as a race condition, it's
hard to test reliably.

the concerns mentioned for 174 and the other guy hasn't returned so I remove
the entry from here now.

  the app re-used the handle to do a connection to host B and then again
  re-used the handle to host A, it would not update the info with host A's IP
  address (due to the connection being re-used) but it would instead report
  the info from host B.

option to specify dis(activation) of compiler optimizations.

If option is specified, it will be honored independant of the
--(dis|en)able-debug option.

option to specify dis(activation) of picky compiler warnings.

If option is specified, it will be honored independant of the
--(dis|en)able-debug option.

If option is not specified, it will follow --(dis|en)able-debug
setting, whose default is disabled if not specified.

dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules