DEPRECATE: remove hyper in January 2025

Previously this document stated we would do it after February, but now
it will be done already for the first January 2025 release.

The re

DEPRECATE: remove hyper in January 2025

Previously this document stated we would do it after February, but now
it will be done already for the first January 2025 release.

The reason being that since we decided to deprecate hyper, the
degradation speed has increased as now no one bothers to fix issues in
the hyper side of things. Also: not a single soul has yet spoken up in
favor of keeping the support.

Closes #15135

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DEPRECATE.md: remove hyper after February 2025

Closes #14492

tidy-up: OS names

Use these words and casing more consistently across text, comments and
one curl tool output:
AIX, ALPN, ANSI, BSD, Cygwin, Darwin, FreeBSD, GitHub, HP-UX, Linux,

tidy-up: OS names

Use these words and casing more consistently across text, comments and
one curl tool output:
AIX, ALPN, ANSI, BSD, Cygwin, Darwin, FreeBSD, GitHub, HP-UX, Linux,
macOS, MS-DOS, MSYS, MinGW, NTLM, POSIX, Solaris, UNIX, Unix, Unicode,
WINE, WebDAV, Win32, winbind, WinIDN, Windows, Windows CE, Winsock.

Mostly OS names and a few more.

Also a couple of other minor text fixups.

Closes #14360

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docs: start markdown headers with capital letter where applicable

Closes #14115

docs: misc language polish

- CURLINFO_FILETIME*: improve language
- add '32bit' and '64bit' as bad words, use 32-bit and 64-bit
- mksymbolsmanpage.pl: avoid "will"

Closes #1

docs: misc language polish

- CURLINFO_FILETIME*: improve language
- add '32bit' and '64bit' as bad words, use 32-bit and 64-bit
- mksymbolsmanpage.pl: avoid "will"

Closes #14070

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noproxy: patterns need to be comma separated

or they will not parse correctly.

Mentioned in DEPRECATED since Janurary 2023 (in 7ad8a7ba9ebdedc).

Closes #13789

DEPRECATE.md: TLS libraries without 1.3 support

curl drops support for TLS libraries without TLS 1.3 capability after
May 2025.

It requires that a curl build using the library s

DEPRECATE.md: TLS libraries without 1.3 support

curl drops support for TLS libraries without TLS 1.3 capability after
May 2025.

It requires that a curl build using the library should be able to
negotiate and use TLS 1.3, or else it is not good enough. We support a
vast amount of other TLS libraries that are likely to satisfy users
better.

Closes #13544

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NTLM_WB: drop support

The feature has not worked for months and has been marked as DEPRECATED
for six+ months.

Closes #13249

reuse: add copyright + license info to individual docs/*.md files

Instead of use 'docs/*.md' in dep5. For clarity and avoiding a wide-
matching wildcard.

+ Remove mention of old

reuse: add copyright + license info to individual docs/*.md files

Instead of use 'docs/*.md' in dep5. For clarity and avoiding a wide-
matching wildcard.

+ Remove mention of old files from .reuse/dep5
+ add info to .github/dependabot.yml
+ make scripts/copyright.pl warn on non-matching patterns

Closes #13245

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docs: use present tense

avoid "will", detect "will" as a bad word in the CI

Also line wrapped a bunch of paragraphs

Closes #13001

GHA: add a job scanning for "bad words" in markdown

This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want

GHA: add a job scanning for "bad words" in markdown

This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want to avoid. In the
name of consistency and better documentation.

Closes #12764

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DEPRECATE.md: mention that NTLM_WB no longer works

Ref: #12479
Closes #12553

DEPRECATE: remove NTLM_WB in June 2024

Ref: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2023-12/0010.html

Closes #12451

mingw: delete support for legacy mingw.org toolchain

Drop support for "old" / "legacy" / "classic" / "v1" / "mingw32" MinGW:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW, https://osdn.net/proje

mingw: delete support for legacy mingw.org toolchain

Drop support for "old" / "legacy" / "classic" / "v1" / "mingw32" MinGW:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW, https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/
Its homepage used to be http://mingw.org/ [no HTTPS], and broken now.
It supported the x86 CPU only and used a old Windows API header and
implib set, often causing issues. It also misses most modern Windows
features, offering old versions of both binutils and gcc (no llvm/clang
support). It was last updated 2 years ago.

curl now relies on toolchains based on the mingw-w64 project:
https://www.mingw-w64.org/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
https://www.msys2.org/ https://github.com/msys2/msys2
https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw
(Also available via Linux and macOS package managers.)

Closes #11625

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tidy-up: mostly whitespace nits

- delete completed TODO from `./CMakeLists.txt`.
- convert a C++ comment to C89 in `./CMake/CurlTests.c`.
- delete duplicate EOLs from EOF.
- add

tidy-up: mostly whitespace nits

- delete completed TODO from `./CMakeLists.txt`.
- convert a C++ comment to C89 in `./CMake/CurlTests.c`.
- delete duplicate EOLs from EOF.
- add missing EOL at EOF.
- delete whitespace at EOL (except from expected test results).
- convert tabs to spaces.
- convert CRLF EOLs to LF in GHA yaml.
- text casing fixes in `./CMakeLists.txt`.
- fix a codespell typo in `packages/OS400/initscript.sh`.

Closes #11772

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gskit: remove

We remove support for building curl with gskit.

- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend

gskit: remove

We remove support for building curl with gskit.

- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend
- no CI builds use or verify this backend
- gskit, or the curl adaption for it, lacks many modern TLS features
making it an inferior solution
- build breakages in this code take weeks or more to get detected
- fixing gskit code is mostly done "flying blind"

This removal has been advertized in DEPRECATED in Jan 2, 2023 and it has
been mentioned on the curl-library mailing list.

It could be brought back, this is not a ban. Given proper effort and
will, gskit support is welcome back into the curl TLS backend family.

Closes #11460

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nss: remove support for this TLS library

Closes #11459

DEPRECATE: the original legacy mingw version 1

Remove completely in September 2023

Closes #10667

misc: remove support for curl_off_t < 8 bytes

Closes #10597

noproxy: support for space-separated names is deprecated

To be removed in July 2024.

Assisted-by: Michael Osipov
Fixes #10209
Closes #10215

docs/DEPRECATE.md: deprecate gskit

Ref: #10163

- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend
- no CI builds

docs/DEPRECATE.md: deprecate gskit

Ref: #10163

- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend
- no CI builds use or verify this backend
- gskit, or the curl adaption for it, lacks many modern TLS features
making it an inferior solution
- build breakages in this code take weeks or more to get detected
- fixing gskit code is mostly done "flying blind"

Closes #10201

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docs/DEPRECATE.md: grammar improvement and sp correction

The main thing I wanted to do was fix the spelling of "spent", but I
think this rewording improves the flow of the paragraph.

docs/DEPRECATE.md: grammar improvement and sp correction

The main thing I wanted to do was fix the spelling of "spent", but I
think this rewording improves the flow of the paragraph.

Closes #10067

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configure: deprecate builds with small curl_off_t

If curl_off_t turns out to be smaller than 8 bytes,
--with-n64-deprecated needs to be used to allow the build to
continue. This is t

configure: deprecate builds with small curl_off_t

If curl_off_t turns out to be smaller than 8 bytes,
--with-n64-deprecated needs to be used to allow the build to
continue. This is to highlight the fact that support for such builds is
going away next year.

Also mentioned in DEPRECATED.md

Closes #9605

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DEPRECATE.md: Support for systems without 64 bit data types

Closes #9604

docs: spellfixes

Pointed by the new CI job