Re downvoting: I wasn't being sarcastic here - it's just that without context, this is just a bugfix release, with no note on which are the big features here. We could as well put every single Linux git commit here, couldn't we?
a) Most people get their Linux fix through distributions, nobody [1] is compiling their own kernel any more. So knowing about a Linux release is mostly for curiosity sake, what can be used in x months/years.
b) cURL is also extremely widely used [2], so every release matters and can easily compiled/installed directly, without waiting for distributions to catch on.
[1] exceptions prove the rule
[2] even Microsoft added an 'curl' alias for accessing URLs via HTTP in their PowerShell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
Though let me say it is an interesting digression :D It seems that the use of that saying here qualifies for the "Loose rhetorical sense" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...) described in that article. The one we would really like to avoid would be "Serious nonsense": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...