Curl and libcurl 7.45.0

 Public curl releases:         149
 Command line options:         177
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   219
 Public functions in libcurl:  61
 Contributors:                 1303

This release includes the following changes:

 o added CURLOPT_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL [6]
 o added new tool option --proto-default [6]
 o getinfo: added CURLINFO_ACTIVESOCKET
 o turned CURLINFO_* option docs as stand-alone man pages
 o curl: point out unnecessary uses of -X in verbose mode [17]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o curl_global_init_mem.3: Stronger thread safety warning [1]
 o buildconf.bat: Fixed issues when ran in directories with special chars [2]
 o cmake: Fix CurlTests check for gethostbyname_r with 5 arguments
 o generate.bat: Fixed issues when ran in directories with special chars
 o generate.bat: Only call buildconf.bat if it exists
 o generate.bat: Added support for generating only the prerequisite files
 o curl.1: Document weaknesses in SSLv2 and SSLv3
 o CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION.3: connection re-use goes before version
 o docs: Update the redirect protocols disabled by default
 o inet_pton.c: Fix MSVC run-time check failure
 o CURLMOPT_PUSHFUNCTION.3: fix argument types
 o rtsp: support basic/digest authentication
 o rtsp: stop reading empty DESCRIBE responses
 o travis: Upgrading to container based build [3]
 o travis.yml: Add OS X testbot
 o FTP: make state machine not get stuck in state
 o openssl: handle lack of server cert when strict checking disabled [4]
 o configure: change functions to detect openssl (clones) [5]
 o configure: detect latest boringssl [5]
 o runtests: Allow for spaces in server-verify curl custom path
 o http2: on_frame_recv: get a proper 'conn' for the debug logging
 o ntlm: mark deliberate switch case fall-through
 o http2: remove dead code
 o curl_easy_{escape,unescape}.3: "char *" vs. "const char *" [7]
 o curl: point out the conflicting HTTP methods if used
 o cmake: added Windows SSL support [8]
 o curl_easy_{escape,setopt}.3: fix example
 o curl_easy_escape.3: escape '\n' [9]
 o libcurl.m4: Put braces around empty if body [10]
 o buildconf.bat: Fixed double blank line in 'curl manual' warning output
 o sasl: Only define Curl_sasl_digest_get_pair() when CRYPTO_AUTH enabled
 o inet_pton.c: Fix MSVC run-time check failure
 o CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.3: mention methods for redirects
 o http2: don't pass on Connection: headers [11]
 o nss: do not directly access SSL_ImplementedCiphers [12]
 o docs: numerous cleanups and spelling fixes
 o FTP: do_more: add check for wait_data_conn in upload case [13]
 o parse_proxy: reject illegal port numbers [14]
 o cmake: IPv6 : disable Unix header check on Windows platform [15]
 o winbuild: run buildconf.bat if necessary
 o buildconf.bat: fix syntax error
 o curl_sspi: fix possibly undefined CRYPT_E_REVOKED [16]
 o nss: prevent NSS from incorrectly re-using a session [18]
 o libcurl-errors.3: add two missing error codes
 o openssl: fix build with < 0.9.8
 o openssl: refactor certificate parsing to use OpenSSL memory BIO [19]
 o openldap: only part of LDAP query results received [20]
 o ssl: add server cert's "sha256//" hash to verbose [21]
 o NTLM: Reset auth-done when using a fresh connection [22]
 o curl: generate easysrc only on --libcurl

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:

  Alessandro Ghedini, Benjamin Kircher, Bertrand Simonnet, Brad King,
  Dan Fandrich, Daniel Hwang, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Daniel Lee Hwang,
  Daniel Seither, Daniel Stenberg, Eric Ridge, Erik Janssen, Isaac Boukris,
  Jactry Zeng, Jakub Zakrzewski, Jim Hollinger, Kamil Dudka, Marcel Raad,
  Nathaniel Waisbrot, Nikolai Kondrashov, Patricia Muscalu, Patrick Monnerat,
  Rajkumar Mandal, Ray Satiro, Razvan Cojocaru, Rémy Léone, Sam Roth,
  Sergei Nikulov, Steve Holme, Svyatoslav Mishyn, Viktor Szakáts,
  W. Mark Kubacki,
  (32 contributors)

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

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-08/0016.html
 [2] = https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/379
 [3] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=388
 [4] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=392
 [5] = https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/curl/+/f551028d5caab
29d4b4a4ae8c159c76c3cfd4887%5E!/
 [6] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=351
 [7] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=395
 [8] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=399
 [9] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=398
 [10] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=402
 [11] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=401
 [12] = https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-September/214117.html
 [13] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=405
 [14] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=415
 [15] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=409
 [16] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=411
 [17] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/09/11/unnecessary-use-of-curl-x/
 [18] = https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1202264
 [19] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=427
 [20] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=440
 [21] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=410
 [22] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=435
 [23] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=429