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-3.4
+4.0
  - Stricter type checking for handle options based on <curl/typecheck-gcc.h> macros
  - curl_symbols is now a function instead of a static table to allow easy filtering
  - curl_fetch_memory now over-allocates also on unix to avoid many realloc calls