Curl and libcurl 7.44.0

 Public curl releases:         148
 Command line options:         176
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   219
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Contributors:                 1291

This release includes the following changes:

 o http2: added CURLMOPT_PUSHFUNCTION and CURLMOPT_PUSHDATA [6]
 o examples: added http2-serverpush.c [7]
 o http2: added curl_pushheader_byname() and curl_pushheader_bynum()
 o docs: added CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md [8]
 o configure: disable libidn by default [4]
 o curl: Add --ssl-no-revoke to disable certificate revocation checks [5]
 o libcurl: New value CURLSSLOPT_NO_REVOKE for CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS [9]
 o makefile: Added support for VC14
 o build: Added Visual Studio 2015 (VC14) project files

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o FTP: fix HTTP CONNECT logic regression [1]
 o openssl: Fix build with openssl < ~ 0.9.8f
 o openssl: fix build with BoringSSL
 o curl_easy_setopt.3: option order doesn't matter
 o openssl: fix use of uninitialized buffer [2]
 o RTSP: removed dead code
 o Makefile.m32: add support for CURL_LDFLAG_EXTRAS
 o curl: always provide negotiate/kerberos options
 o cookie: Fix bug in export if any-domain cookie is present
 o curl_easy_setopt.3: mention CURLOPT_PIPEWAIT
 o INSTALL: Advise use of non-native SSL for Windows <= XP
 o tool_help: fix --tlsv1 help text to use >= for TLSv1
 o HTTP: POSTFIELDSIZE set after added to multi handle [3]
 o SSL-PROBLEMS: mention WinSSL problems in WinXP
 o setup-vms.h: Symbol case fixups
 o SSL: Pinned public key hash support
 o libtest: call PR_Cleanup() on exit if NSPR is used
 o ntlm_wb: Fix theoretical memory leak
 o runtests: Allow for spaces in curl custom path
 o http2: add stream != NULL checks for reliability
 o schannel: Replace deprecated GetVersion with VerifyVersionInfo
 o http2: verify success of strchr() in http2_send()
 o configure: add --disable-rt option
 o openssl: work around MSVC warning
 o HTTP: ignore "Content-Encoding: compress"
 o configure: check if OpenSSL linking wants -ldl
 o build-openssl.bat: Show syntax if required args are missing
 o test1902: attempt to make the test more reliable
 o libcurl-thread.3: Consolidate thread safety info
 o maketgz: Fixed some VC makefiles missing from the release tarball
 o libcurl-multi.3: mention curl_multi_wait [10]
 o ABI doc: use secure URL
 o http: move HTTP/2 cleanup code off http_disconnect() [11]

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:

  Cédric Connes, Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, David Woodhouse, Feist Josselin,
  Gustavo Grieco, John E. Malmberg, Kamil Dudka, Lior Kaplan, Marcel Raad,
  Michael Kaufmann, Michał Fita, Patrick Monnerat, Paul Howarth, Ray Satiro,
  Roger Leigh, Stefan Bühler, Štefan Kremeň, Steve Holme, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa,
  Terri Oda, Tim Stack, Tomas Tomecek, TJ Saunders, Viktor Szakáts,

        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/278
 [2] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/318
 [3] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-06/0122.html
 [4] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-06/0143.html
 [5] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/264
 [6] = http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLMOPT_PUSHFUNCTION.html
 [7] = http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/http2-serverpush.html
 [8] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/blob/master/docs/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
 [9] = http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS.html
 [10] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/356
 [11] = https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1248389