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2024-05-06 18:33:42
On Friday May 3, 2024 I had several of my curl friends over for dinner in my house. An unusually warm and sunny spring day with a temperature reaching twenty degrees centigrade. The curl up 2024 weekend started excellently and the following morning we all squeezed ourselves into a conference room in downtown Stockholm. I … Continue reading I survived curl up 2024
2024-04-24 14:43:38
We provide an official curl container. Why would you use curl in a container? We actually don’t ask, we just provide the image, but I can think of a few reasons… Six billion as of now The official curl docker repository now (as of 06:43 UTC April 24, 2024) reports that the curl container has … Continue reading Six billion docker pulls
2024-04-22 15:59:53
Jan Gampe took things to the next level by actually making this cross-stitch out of the pattern I previously posted online. The flowers really gave it an extra level of charm I think. This quote is from a comment by an upset user on my blog, replying to one of my previous articles about curl. … Continue reading curl is just the hobby
2024-04-10 15:54:42
Don’t trust. Verify. Here follows a brief description on how you can detect if the curl package would ever make an xz. xz (and its library liblzma) was presumably selected as a target because it is an often used component and by extension via systemd it often used by openssh in several Linux distros. libcurl … Continue reading Verified curl
2024-03-29 23:17:57
We keep track of bugfixes done to curl. All bugfixes ever done. A while back I also went back and populated the lists with details from all the releases to the pre-cursors of curl: httpget and urlget. All and every change made since November 1996. The bugfixes are all listed on the curl changelog page. … Continue reading 10,000 bugfixes in 10,000 days
2024-03-27 15:00:08
Numbers the 255th and 256th releases5 changes56 days (total: 9,504)162 bug-fixes (total: 10,050)246 commits (total: 31,931)0 new public libcurl function (total: 93)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 304)0 new curl command line option (total: 258)92 contributors, 56 new (total: 3,133)37 authors, 15 new (total: 1,252)4 security fixes (total: 155) Versions I first released 8.7.0, but immediately … Continue reading curl 8.7.0 and 8.7.1
2024-03-26 00:03:31
On March 21 2024 we had a curl distro meeting where people from at least ten different distros and curl project members had a video meeting and talked curl and distro related topics for a while. Here is my summary of what we talked about and concluded. Attendees We had about 25 persons attending. At … Continue reading curl distro report
2024-03-20 15:13:58
years++; It feels like it was not very long ago that we had the big curl 25 year celebrations. I still have plenty of fluid left in my 25 year old whiskey from last year and I believe I will treat myself a drink from that tonight. I have worked on curl full-time and spare … Continue reading curl turns 26 today
2024-03-18 21:33:07
I am doing another webinar on March 28 2024, introducing newcomers to how to Internet transfers using the libcurl API. Starting at 10am Pacific time. 17:00 UTC. 18:00 CET. Agenda The plan is to spend about 30 minutes going through the topics in the agenda and then take as long as necessary to let the … Continue reading getting started with libcurl
2024-03-09 05:51:18
tldr: Apple thinks it is fine. I do not. On December 28 2023, bugreport 12604 was filed in the curl issue tracker. We get a lot issues filed most days so this fact alone was hardly anything out of the ordinary. We read the reports, investigate, ask follow-up questions to see what we can learn … Continue reading the Apple curl security incident 12604