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-Upgrading to curl/libcurl 7.10 from any previous version
-========================================================
+ Peer SSL Certificate Verification
+ =================================
-libcurl 7.10 performs peer SSL certificate verification by default. This is
-done by installing a default CA cert bundle on 'make install' (or similar),
-that CA bundle package is used by default on operations against SSL servers.
+Starting in 7.10, libcurl performs peer SSL certificate verification by
+default. This is done by installing a default CA cert bundle on 'make install'
+(or similar), that CA bundle package is used by default on operations against
+SSL servers.
Alas, if you communicate with HTTPS servers using certifcates that are signed
by CAs present in the bundle, you will not notice any changed behavior and you