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libssh2 1.11

This release includes the following enhancements and bugfixes:

 o Adds support for encrypt-then-mac (ETM) MACs
 o Adds support for AES-GCM crypto protocols
 o Adds support for sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 and sk-ssh-ed25519 keys
 o Adds support for RSA certificate authentication
 o Adds FIDO support with *_sk() functions
 o Adds RSA-SHA2 key upgrading to OpenSSL, WinCNG, mbedTLS, OS400 backends
 o Adds Agent Forwarding and libssh2_agent_sign()
 o Adds support for Channel Signal message libssh2_channel_signal_ex()
 o Adds support to get the user auth banner message libssh2_userauth_banner()
 o Adds LIBSSH2_NO_{MD5, HMAC_RIPEMD, DSA, RSA, RSA_SHA1, ECDSA, ED25519,
   AES_CBC, AES_CTR, BLOWFISH, RC4, CAST, 3DES} options
 o Adds direct stream UNIX sockets with libssh2_channel_direct_streamlocal_ex()
 o Adds wolfSSL support to CMake file
 o Adds mbedTLS 3.x support
 o Adds LibreSSL 3.5 support
 o Adds support for CMake "unity" builds
 o Adds CMake support for building shared and static libs in a single pass
 o Adds symbol hiding support to CMake
 o Adds support for libssh2.rc for all build tools
 o Adds .zip, .tar.xz and .tar.bz2 release tarballs
 o Enables ed25519 key support for LibreSSL 3.7.0 or higher
 o Improves OpenSSL 1.1 and 3 compatibility
 o Now requires OpenSSL 1.0.2 or newer
 o Now requires CMake 3.1 or newer
 o SFTP: Adds libssh2_sftp_open_ex_r() and libssh2_sftp_open_r() extended APIs
 o SFTP: No longer has a packet limit when reading a directory
 o SFTP: now parses attribute extensions if they exist
 o SFTP: no longer will busy loop if SFTP fails to initialize
 o SFTP: now clear various errors as expected
 o SFTP: no longer skips files if the line buffer is too small
 o SCP: add option to not quote paths
 o SCP: Enables 64-bit offset support unconditionally
 o Now skips leading \r and \n characters in banner_receive()
 o Enables secure memory zeroing with all build tools on all platforms
 o No longer logs SSH_MSG_REQUEST_FAILURE packets from keepalive
 o Speed up base64 encoding by 7x
 o Assert if there is an attempt to write a value that is too large
 o WinCNG: fix memory leak in _libssh2_dh_secret()
 o Added protection against possible null pointer dereferences
 o Agent now handles overly large comment lengths
 o Now ensure KEX replies don't include extra bytes
 o Fixed possible buffer overflow when receiving SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_BANNER
 o Fixed possible buffer overflow in keyboard interactive code path
 o Fixed overlapping memcpy()
 o Fixed Windows UWP builds
 o Fixed DLL import name
 o Renamed local RANDOM_PADDING macro to avoid unexpected define on Windows
 o Support for building with gcc versions older than 8
 o Improvements to CMake, Makefile, NMakefile, GNUmakefile, autoreconf files
 o Restores ANSI C89 compliance
 o Enabled new compiler warnings and fixed/silenced them
 o Improved error messages
 o Now uses CIFuzz
 o Numerous minor code improvements
 o Improvements to CI builds
 o Improvements to unit tests
 o Improvements to doc files
 o Improvements to example files
 o Removed "old gex" build option
 o Removed no-encryption/no-mac builds
 o Removed support for NetWare and Watcom wmake build files

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

  Viktor Szakats, Dan Fandrich, Will Cosgrove, Daniel Stenberg, Michael Buckley,
  Zenju, Miguel de Icaza, Nick Woodruff, Keith Dart, Anders Borum,
  Jörgen Sigvardsson, vajdaakos, Gustavo Junior Alves, Marc Hörsken, iruis,
  Nishit Majithia, Stefan Eissing, metab0t, Y. Yang, skundu07, Mike Harris,
  Gabriel Smith, Leo Liu, Miguel de Icaza, Sandeep Bansal, Harry Sintonen,
  xalopp, tihmstar, Sunil Nimmagadda