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Posted about 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
There has been eight weeks since 7.80.0. Release presentation Numbers the 205th release1 change56 days (total: 8,636)121 bug-fixes (total: 7,518)189 commits (total: 28,055)0 new public libcurl function (total: 86)1 new curl_easy_setopt() option ... [More] (total: 295)1 new curl command line option (total: 244)53 contributors, 25 new (total: 2,558)32 authors, 14 new (total: 990)0 security fixes (total: 111)0 … Continue reading curl 7.81.0 – more percent → [Less]
Posted about 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
There has been eight weeks since 7.80.0. Release presentation On 10:00 AM Central European Time (09:00 UTC) today, January 5 2022, there will be a live video presentation stream about this release over on twitch. It will be recorded and made ... [More] available after the fact for those who cannot attend the live stream. Numbers the … Continue reading curl 7.81.0 – more percent → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
Every year is a curl year. I’m saving my bigger summary for curl’s 24th birthday in March, but when reaching the end of a calendar year it feels natural and even fun to look back and highlight some of the things we accomplished and what happened during this particular lap around the sun. I decided … Continue reading The curl year 2021 →
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
I’ve talked on this topic before but I realized I never did a proper blog post on the topic. So here it is: how we develop curl to keep it safe. The topic of supply chain security is one that is discussed frequently these days and every so often there’s a very well used (open … Continue reading Keeping curl safe →
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
Easter egg; noun: An unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software, included as a joke or a bonus. There are no Easter eggs in curl. For the good. I’ve been asked about this many times. Among the enthusiast community, people seem ... [More] to generally like the concept of Easter eggs and hidden treasures, … Continue reading No easter eggs in curl → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
When I speak of curl in this post, I lump curl the command line tool and libcurl the library into one, and I just call them curl. Related: my webinar titled “Why everyone is using curl and you should too“. I believe just about every curl user has ... [More] their own story and explanation about why … Continue reading Why curl is used everywhere, even on Mars → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
Imagine running a trillion dollar company that bundles various open source components into your products, making billions of dollars of profit annually. When one of your users reach out and ask for help, with the product you ship to your customers ... [More] , you instead refer the user to the open source project. The project which is … Continue reading Free Apple support → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
Thursday November 18 at 09:00 Pacific Time (17:00 UTC, 18:00 CET) I will sum up the curl news in the 7.80.0 release with extra focus and details on and about the post quantum features you can now use! Register here The webinar will be live and we end ... [More] with a Q&A session where you can … Continue reading cURL Release Webinar – Featuring Post Quantum cURL → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
I still remember the RFC number off the top of my head for the first multipart formdata spec that I implemented support for in curl. Added to curl in version 5.0, December 1998. RFC 1867. Multipart formdata is the name of the syntax for how HTTP clients send data in a HTTP POST when they … Continue reading Fun multipart/form-data inconsistencies →
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
Almost 14 months since I celebrated 15,000 commits in curl’s source code repository I have now passed 16,000 commits. My commit number 16,000 was a minor man page fix. The official gitstats page shows that I’ve committed changes on almost 4,600 ... [More] separate days since the year 2000. 16,000 commits is 13,413 commits more than the … Continue reading 16000 curl commits → [Less]