cURL

We have almost a tradition now, me and the duo Jerod and Adam of the Changelog podcast. We talk curl and related stuff every three years. Back in 2015 we started out in episode 153 and we did the second one in episode 299 in 2018. Time flies and now we’re in 2021 and we … Continue reading talking curl on changelog again →

I have a lot of different hats and roles in the curl project. One of them is “release manager” and in this post I’ve tried to write down pretty much all the steps I do to prepare and ship a curl release at the end of every release cycle in the project. I’ve handled every … Continue reading steps to release curl →

In September 2018 I celebrated 10,000 stars, up from 5,000 back in May 2017. We made 1,000 stars on August 12, 2014. Today I’m cheering for the 20,000 stars curl has received on GitHub. It is worth repeating that this is just a number without any particular meaning or importance. It just means 20,000 GitHub … Continue reading 20,000 github stars →

tldr: the level of HTTP/3 support in servers are surprisingly high considering very few clients enable it by default. The specs The specifications are all done. They’re now waiting in queues to get their final edits and approvals before they will get ... [More] assigned RFC numbers and get published as such – they will not change … Continue reading Where is HTTP/3 right now? → [Less]

tldr: the level of HTTP/3 support in servers is surprisingly high. The specs The specifications are all done. They’re now waiting in queues to get their final edits and approvals before they will get assigned RFC numbers and get published as such – ... [More] they will not change any further. That’s a set of RFCs (six … Continue reading Where is HTTP/3 right now? → [Less]

tldr: the level of HTTP/3 support in servers are surprisingly high considering very few clients enable it by default yet. The specs The specifications are all done. They’re now waiting in queues to get their final edits and approvals before they will ... [More] get assigned RFC numbers and get published as such – they will not … Continue reading Where is HTTP/3 right now? → [Less]

I’m happy to announce that we yet again completed a full eight week release cycle and as customary, we end it with a fresh release. Enjoy! Release presentation Numbers the 198th release6 changes56 days (total: 8,412)130 bug fixes (total: 6,812)226 ... [More] commits (total: 26,978)0 new public libcurl function (total: 85)3 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 288)3 new … Continue reading curl 7.76.0 adds rustls → [Less]

I’m happy to announce that we yet again completed a full eight week release cycle and as customary, we end it with a fresh release. Enjoy! Release presentation Starting 8:00 UTC on March 31, 2021 there will be a live-streamed release presentation ... [More] done over twitch. The live-stream will start a bit earlier if anyone has … Continue reading curl 7.76.0 adds rustls → [Less]

I’ve previously blogged about the possible backdoor threat to curl. This post might be a little repeat but also a refresh and renewed take on the subject several years later, in the shadow of the recent PHP backdoor commits of March 28, 2021. ... [More] Nowadays, “supply chain attacks” is a hot topic. Since you didn’t read … Continue reading HOWTO backdoor curl → [Less]

I honestly don’t know what particular thing I did to get this, but GitHub gave me a 3D-printed steel version of my 2020 GitHub contribution “matrix”. You know that thing on your GitHub profile that normally looks something like this: The gift package ... [More] included this friendly note: Hi @bagder, As we welcome 2021, we want … Continue reading Github steel → [Less]