A family of forks 🔗
curl supports getting built with eleven different TLS libraries. Six of these libraries are OpenSSL or forks of OpenSSL. Allow me to give you a glimps [...]
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Dropping some TLS laggards 🔗
In the curl project we have a long tradition of supporting a range of different third party libraries that provide similar functionality. The person w [...]
What we can’t measure 🔗
The curl project is an independent Open Source project. Our ambition is to do internet transfers right and securely with the features “people” want. B [...]
curl 8.14.1 🔗
This is a patch-release done only a week since the previous version with no changes merged only bugfixes. Because some of the regressions in 8.14.0 we [...]
Decomplexification 🔗
(Clearly a much better word than simplification.) I believe we generally accept the truth that we should write simple and easy to read code in order t [...]
curl 8.14.0 🔗
Welcome to another curl release. Release presentation Numbers the 267th release6 changes56 days (total: 9,931)229 bugfixes (total: 12,015)406 commits [...]
The curl user survey 2025 is up 🔗
Yes! curl user survey 2025 The time has come for you to once again do your curl community duty. Run over and fill in the curl user survey and tell us [...]
Leeks and leaks 🔗
On the completely impossible situation of blocking the Tor .onion TLD to avoid leaks, but at the same time not block it to make users able to do what [...]
Detecting malicious Unicode 🔗
In a recent educational trick, curl contributor James Fuller submitted a pull-request to the project in which he suggested a larger cleanup of a set o [...]
Supported curl versions and end of life 🔗
The other week we shipped the 266th curl release. This counter is perhaps a little inflated since it also includes the versions we did before we renam [...]