curl and libcurl 8.4.0

Public curl releases: 252

Command line options: 257

curl_easy_setopt() options: 303

Public functions in libcurl: 92

Contributors: 2976

This release includes the following changes:

This release includes the following bugfixes:

o escape: replace Curl_isunreserved with ISUNRESERVED [2]

o quiche: fix build error with --with-ca-fallback [1]

o test1056: disable on Windows

o test1592: greatly increase the maximum test timeout

o test2600: remove special case handling for USE_ALARM_TIMEOUT [3]

o test650: fix an end tag typo

o test661: return from test early in case of curl error

o tests: improve SLOWDOWN test reliability by reducing sent data

o tests: stop overriding the lock timeout

o tool_cb_wrt: fix debug assertion [4]

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

Planned upcoming removals include:

o support for space-separated NOPROXY patterns

o support for the original legacy mingw version 1

See https://curl.se/dev/deprecate.html for details

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

advice from friends like these:

Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, Douglas R. Reno, Gisle Vanem, John Haugabook,

Junho Choi, Ray Satiro

(7 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

[1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11850

[2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11846

[3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11767

[4] = https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/af3f4e41#r127212213