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:                 2981

This release includes the following changes:


This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o cmake: fix the help text to the static build option in CMakeLists.txt [10]
 o cookie: do not store the expire or max-age strings [16]
 o cookie: remove unnecessary struct fields [17]
 o cookie: set ->running in cookie_init even if data is NULL [5]
 o doh: inherit DEBUGFUNCTION/DATA [12]
 o escape: replace Curl_isunreserved with ISUNRESERVED [2]
 o h2-proxy: remove left-over mistake in drain_tunnel() [7]
 o http: use per-request counter to check too large headers [6]
 o http_aws_sigv4: fix sorting with empty parts [13]
 o lib: failf/infof compiler warnings [8]
 o MANUAL.md: change domain to example.com [11]
 o misc: better random strings [15]
 o quiche: fix build error with --with-ca-fallback [1]
 o runtests: eliminate a warning on old perl versions
 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: log the test result code after each libtest
 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:

  calvin2021y on github, Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, Douglas R. Reno,
  Gisle Vanem, Harry Sintonen, John Haugabook, Joshix-1 on github, Junho Choi,
  Mathias Fuchs, Peter Wang, Ray Satiro, vvb2060, 南宫雪珊
  (14 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
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11875
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11871
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11877
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11874
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11843
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11866
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11864
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11855
 [15] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11838
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11862
 [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11862