curl and libcurl 8.1.1

 Public curl releases:         218
 Command line options:         251
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   302
 Public functions in libcurl:  91
 Contributors:                 2875

This release includes the following changes:

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This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o cf-socket: completely remove the disabled USE_RECV_BEFORE_SEND_WORKAROUND [12]
 o checksrc: disallow spaces before labels [16]
 o cmake: repair cross compiling [10]
 o configure: fix --help alignment [9]
 o configure: generate a script to run the compiler [11]
 o curl_easy_getinfo: clarify on return data types [15]
 o docs: document that curl_url_cleanup(NULL) is a safe no-op [4]
 o hostip: move easy_lock.h include above curl_memory.h [14]
 o http2: double http request parser max line length [8]
 o ngtcp2: fix compiler warning about possible null-deref [3]
 o ngtcp2: proper handling of uint64_t when adjusting send buffer [1]
 o os400: update chkstrings.c [2]
 o select: avoid returning an error on EINTR from select() or poll() [5]
 o url: provide better error message when URLs fail to parse [18]
 o urlapi: allow numerical parts in the host name [7]
 o urlapi: respect CURLU_ALLOW_SPACE and CURLU_NO_AUTHORITY for redirects [13]
 o vquic.c: make recvfrom_packets static, avoid compiler warning [6]

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

Planned upcoming removals include:

 o gskit
 o NSS
 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:

  Antoine Pitrou, Colin Cross, Daniel Stenberg, Emanuele Torre,
  Emilio Cobos Álvarez, Hind Montassif, James Fuller, Jonas Bülow, Jon Rumsey,
  Keitagit-kun on github, Pavel Kalyugin, Stefan Eissing, Viktor Szakats,
  Deal(一线灵)
  (14 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11149
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11132
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11147
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11150
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11135
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11146
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11129
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11138
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11142
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11130
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11114
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11118
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11136
 [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11140
 [15] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11126
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11134
 [18] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11137