curl-8.12.1

[Douglas R. Reno]

New point version

This contains fixes for a large variety of regressions in 8.12.0.

curl and libcurl 8.12.1

 Public curl releases:         265
 Command line options:         267
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   306
 Public functions in libcurl:  96
 Contributors:                 3344

This release includes the following changes:


This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o all: remove FIXME and TODO comments [55]
 o asyn-thread: fix build with `CURL_DISABLE_SOCKETPAIR` [47]
 o asyn-thread: fix HTTPS RR crash [10]
 o asyn-thread: fix the returned bitmask from Curl_resolver_getsock [18]
 o asyn-thread: survive a c-ares channel set to NULL [52]
 o build: add tool_hugehelp.c into IBMi build [40]
 o checksrc.pl: warn on FIXME/TODO comments
 o cmake/Find: set `<Modulename>_FOUND` for compatibility when found via `pkg-config` [22]
 o cmake: add integration tests, run them in CI [21]
 o cmake: always reference OpenSSL and ZLIB via imported targets [24]
 o cmake: avoid unnecessary `-L` for implicit link dirs [11]
 o cmake: drop `LDAP_DEPRECATED=1` macro, to sync with autotools [23]
 o cmake: fix `HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_*` detections with `CURL_WERROR=ON` [57]
 o cmake: fix to detect `HAVE_OPENSSL_SRP` in MSVC UWP builds [62]
 o cmake: fix/add missing feature detections for Windows/MS-DOS [58]
 o cmake: initialize variables where missing [27]
 o cmake: lib order fixes for picky linkers (e.g. binutils `ld`) [26]
 o cmake: normalize before matching paths with syspaths [30]
 o cmake: respect `GNUTLS_CFLAGS` when detected via `pkg-config` [38]
 o cmake: respect `GNUTLS_LIBRARY_DIRS` in `libcurl.pc` and `curl-config` [39]
 o cmake: save a line with `CMAKE_C_IMPLICIT_LINK_DIRECTORIES` exclusion [32]
 o cmake: tidy up string append and list prepend syntax [28]
 o configure/cmake: check for realpath [19]
 o configure/cmake: set asyn-rr a feature only if httpsrr is enabled [42]
 o content_encoding: #error on too old zlib [2]
 o curl_global_sslset.md: Add SSL backend names [50]
 o CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS.md: strongly recommend using this [41]
 o CURLSHOPT_SHARE.md: adjust for the new SSL session cache [6]
 o docs: better explain multi-part byte range behavior [4]
 o docs: use valid example domain names [54]
 o generate.bat: remove curl_get_line.c from the curlx file list [20]
 o header.md: mention `Authorization:` and `Cookie:` special treatment [43]
 o imap: TLS upgrade fix [14]
 o INTERNALS: fix c-ares, as we actually support 1.6.0 or later [37]
 o ldap: drop support for legacy Novell LDAP SDK [25]
 o lib: include necessary headers for `inet_ntop`/`inet_pton` [8]
 o lib: silence LibreSSL collision warning on non-MSVC Windows [51]
 o libssh2: comparison is always true because rc <= -1 [56]
 o libssh2: raise lowest supported version to 1.2.8 [3]
 o libssh: drop support for libssh older than 0.9.0 [33]
 o libssh: silence `-Wconversion` with a cast (Windows 32-bit) [7]
 o netrc: return code cleanup, fix missing file error [45]
 o openssl-quic: ignore ciphers for h3 [1]
 o openssl: fix out of scope variables in goto [12]
 o pop3: TLS upgrade fix [15]
 o runtests: fix the disabling of the memory tracking [29]
 o runtests: quote commands to support paths with spaces [35]
 o scache: add magic checks [31]
 o smb: silence `-Warray-bounds` with gcc 13+ [9]
 o smtp: TLS upgrade fix [16]
 o SPONSORS.md: clarify that we don't promise goods or services [5]
 o test1516: avoid failure due to spaces in path [36]
 o test2080: simplify, avoid the null byte
 o tests: fix test 558, 1330 for MSVC, allow TrackMemory with MSVC in cmake [53]
 o tidy-up: make per-file `ARRAYSIZE` macros global as `CURL_ARRAYSIZE` [48]
 o tool_cfgable: sort struct fields by size, use bitfields for booleans [17]
 o tool_getparam: add "TLS required" flag for each such option [44]
 o tool_progress: fix percent output of large parallel transfers [61]
 o tool_ssls: switch to tool-specific get_line function [34]
 o verbose.md: mention how carriage-return might occur in headers [49]
 o vquic: make the "disable GSO" use infof, not failf [65]
 o vtls: fix multissl-init [60]
 o vtsl: eliminate 'data->state.ssl_scache' [59]
 o wakeup_write: make sure the eventfd write sends eight bytes [46]
 o wolfssl: silence compiler warning (MSVC 2019), simplify existing [13] 

[Douglas R. Reno]

Going to get this out of the way since most of us will need it very early on in the tagging process...

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at 57539c7d17abdb71fa0e9e0efa5ffa5ff39fac21