curl and libcurl 8.8.1

 Public curl releases:         258
 Command line options:         259
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   305
 Public functions in libcurl:  94
 Contributors:                 3173

This release includes the following changes:


This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o (lib)curl.rc: set debug flag also for `CURLDEBUG` and `UNITTESTS` [2]
 o winbuild: fix PE version info debug flag [1]
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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

 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:

  Ray Satiro, Viktor Szakats
  (2 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13739
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=13730
