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Older events - things that happened earlier in the project

Stuff "gets moved here" from the news page, so some of the links on this page are more likely than others not to work anymore. I still think this page may be of value and I just want you to be aware of this fact. Use the search field to find working pages with similar info.

curl and libcurl 7.21.4 February 17 2011
The never-resting hackers in the curl team proudly present yet another release: curl and libcurl 7.21.4. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes.
curl and libcurl 7.21.3 December 15 2010
The curl team proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.21.3. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.
curl and libcurl 7.21.2 October 13 2010
The curl team proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.21.2. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.
Brand new Development section October 9 2010
The information about development details and specific docs for curl hackers were previously scattered all over this web site in sometimes rather illogical ways.

Starting now, we have Development section of this web site that is dedicated for all curl and libcurl hackers that work on improving our project.

As a consequence, we've also moved a bunch of pages into the dev section to make the "users" sections (for the curl tool and for libcurl) cleaner and more focused on what I suspect web users are looking for.

If you find errors or other things you think we should do to make this even better, just speak up!

curl and libcurl 7.21.1 August 11 2010
The curl team proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.21.1. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.
curl and libcurl 7.21.0 June 16 2010
Another two months are up, and the curl team again proudly presents a new curl release to download: curl and libcurl 7.21.0. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.

The minor number bump was made because of the many protocol-related improvements this time: added support for RTMP, improved TELNET ability, added support for FTP wildcard matching, brand new LDAP code and more.

curl and libcurl 7.20.1 April 14 2010
The curl team proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.20.1. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.
Twelve years old and time for git March 20 2010

Our project is now officially 12 years old.

We switched to using git for source code control. The transition is not yet complete and the old CVS repository is still around and even possible to commit to, but development has started on the git repo now.

curl and libcurl 7.20.0 February 9 2010
The curl team proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.20.0. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.

Also note this security advisory!

curl and libcurl 7.19.7 November 4 2009
The curl team proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.19.7. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.

We're struggling to keep up with the pace of bug reports and patches posted to us in the project. We will continue to appreciate your help and assistance to allow us to distribute the work load on multiple humans.

Thank you for helping out making the best possible transfer library you can find!

site moved September 7 2009
The web site curl.haxx.se has been moved to a different server, and you may suffer from some glitches due to this until everything has been fixed to work properly at the new location. Please have patience.

Changes:

  • All the stuff under "/lxr/" is no longer working. The libcurl examples were the most used links in there but they are now remade differently - and quite honestly in a nicer way too.
curl and libcurl 7.19.6 August 12 2009
The curl team proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.19.6. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.

Also note this security advisory!

curl and libcurl 7.19.5 May 18 2009
The never resting hackers in the curl team proudly present curl and libcurl 7.19.5. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.

Probably the best curl in the world!

curl and libcurl 7.19.4 March 3 2009
The curl team proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.19.4. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.

Also note this security advisory!

curl and libcurl 7.19.3 January 19 2009
The time was ripe for a new release and thus the curl project offers curl and libcurl 7.19.3. Read about the news, the fixes and the changes on the changes page.
curl and libcurl 7.19.2 November 13 2008
Due to some silly regressions in the 7.19.1 release, we hastely did another release: curl and libcurl 7.19.2. Read about the news, the fixed and the changed on the changes page.
curl and libcurl 7.19.1 November 5 2008
The happy campers in the curl project offers curl and libcurl 7.19.1. Read about the news, the fixed and the changed on the changes page.
curl and libcurl 7.19.0 September 1 2008
The curl project proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.19.0. Read about what's new, fixed and changed on the changes page.
mail and CVS server down August 20 2008
On of our main servers, cool.haxx.se, died due to hardware malfunction. We got it replaced, the backup restored and now everything should be working fine again!
curl and libcurl 7.18.2 June 4 2008
The curl project proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.18.2. Read about what's new, fixed and changed on the changes page.
curl and libcurl 7.18.1 March 30 2008
The curl project proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.18.1. Learn about what's new and changed on the changes page.
No Google Summer of Code 2008 March 18 2008
We were not accepted as a mentor org for Google's Summer of Code 2008.
Google Summer of Code 2008 March 2 2008

We're planning to apply to Google's Summer of Code on the behalf of the cURL project, to have us participate as a mentoring organization 2008.

To get good results from Google's Summer of Code, we need a fair amount of volunteering mentors and we need a good set of interesting projects to make students get attracted.

Check the current list of ideas and mentors here.

Please reply to the proper mailing list only if you want to provide further ideas or submit yourself as mentor.

curl and libcurl 7.18.0 January 28 2008
The curl project proudly presents the latest results of our efforts: curl and libcurl 7.18.0. Find out about what's new and changed on the changes page.

There's yet a again a huge effort behind this release. I both hope and think that you'll appreciate it!

curl and libcurl related blog January 7 2008
Daniel blogs about curl-related issues every now and then, and the entries that concern this area are found using this URL:

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/category/floss/curl/

curl and libcurl 7.17.1 October 29 2007
The curl project proudly presents the latest results of our efforts: curl and libcurl 7.17.1. Find out about what's new and changed on the changes page.

Now go and play with it!

curl and libcurl 7.17.0 13 September 2007
The hackers in the curl team proudly present curl and libcurl 7.17.0. Find out about what's new and changed on the changes page.

Enjoy!

curl and libcurl 7.16.4 10 July 2007
The hackers in the curl team proudly present curl and libcurl 7.16.4. Mostly out this soon after the previous release due to this security advisory, but there are a few other changes as well.

Enjoy!

curl and libcurl 7.16.3 25 June 2007
The hackers in the curl team proudly present curl and libcurl 7.16.3. Check out what changes it contains.

Enjoy!

planned server downtime and maintenance 15 June 2007
As previously mentioned, the main servers for the curl project will be shut down and get new IP addresses between around 15:00 and 20:00 CEST on friday the 15th of June 2007.

Do expect minor hiccups even after this until things have settled.

This will also boost the bandwith to both servers from 2mbit/sec to 10mbit/sec.

release delay 7 June 2007
The upcoming release has been delayed due to a c-ares problem, and possibly more. Feel free to join in and help us fix these issues to get the release done!
curl and libcurl 7.16.2 11 April 2007
The hackers in the curl team proudly present curl and libcurl 7.16.2. Check out what changes it contains.

Enjoy!

curl and libcurl 7.16.1 29 January 2007
The hackers in the curl team proudly present curl and libcurl 7.16.1. Check out what changes it contains.

Enjoy!

server downtime 23 December 2006
The server hosting our mailing lists and CVS died late Friday evening and with weekend and Christmas coming up, I'm not sure when someone will get a chance to go over there and make sure it boots up fine again.

Please bear with us, enjoy christmas and have a great time!

new ruby binding 21 November 2006
There's a new ruby binding out, as the former one was totally old and didn't even build anymore...
curl and libcurl 7.16.0 30 October 2006
The latest changes provided by the curl team have resulted in curl and libcurl 7.16.0. Check out what changes it contains. There's one or two slightly bigger changes done this time!
CVS and mailing list server down 28 October 2006
The cool.haxx.se server that hosts the CVS repository as well as all the curl mailing lists (and some additional services) is down. We're working on getting it back online as soon as possible. Please be patient.

update: at 17:00 GMT the machine is back alive.

Aiming for release 11 October 2006
FTP third party transfer support is now removed. We're working on testing and fixing bugs now in order to get a public release done "soon". Feel free to join in and test a recent daily snapshot to help us make a really fine upcoming release.

There's been quite extensive internal changes since the previous release.

Removing support for FTP third party transfers? 17 September 2006
If you feel the support for FTP third party transfers should remain in libcurl, you better speak up before the end of the month or it will go...
Mailing list digest mode currently broken 15 September 2006
If you're subscribed to any mailing list at cool.haxx.se using Digest mode, you don't get any mails at the moment. Hopefully we'll have this fixed soon.
curl and libcurl 7.15.5 7 August 2006
The latest changes provided by the curl team have resulted in curl and libcurl 7.15.5. Check out what changes it contains.

Enjoy!

curl and libcurl 7.15.4 12 June 2006
Summer has finally arrived in Sweden, and to celebrate this joyful time we give you curl and libcurl 7.15.4. Check out what changes it contains.

Enjoy!

IRC With Us 19 April 2006
A couple of (lib)curl users and developers are frequently hanging out in the #curl channel on the freenode.net IRC network. You're welcome to stop by!
NTLM updates and EBCDIC support 7 April 2006
Two rather noticable changes that were committed to the CVS repository this week are the NTLM updates and EBCDIC support for FTP (and IBM TPF system). We will appreciate your tests and reports to the mailing list(s)!
curl and libcurl 7.15.3 20 March 2006
On curl's 8th birthday, we bring you a fresh new release!

7.15.3 is here. Check out what changes it contains!

curl and libcurl 7.15.2 27 February 2006
7.15.2 is here. Check out what changes it contains!
pick a fine mirror 13 January 2006
There's a new service added. Pick any curl.haxx.se URL and replace 'curl' with 'curlm' in the URL. When visiting that URL, you'll get bounced to a suitable mirror near you... curlm.haxx.se has a list of verified up-to-date mirrors only.

Please post your comments and feedback about this on the curl-users mailing list. The plan is to remove the list of mirror-links from the top of all pages and offer a link to this service only.

Hiper phase 1 complete! 9 December 2005
Read about the hiper development which now has completed the phase 1 and moves on to phase 2: *socket() API implemetation. Stay tuned and discuss this on the libcurl mailing list.
curl and libcurl 7.15.1 with security fix 7 December 2005
7.15.1 is here. Check out what changes it contains.

Previous versions contain a security flaw that this release addresses.

Hiper - High Performance libcurl 3 November 2005
Project Hiper is the brand new sub-project which has started as a direct result from the IIS funding.

The goal is to improve libcurl to perform better for a large amount of transfers.

libcurl Funding from the Swedish IIS Foundation 25 October 2005
The Swedish foundation II-Stiftelsen (IIS), the "Internet infrastructure foundation", has the administration of the toplevel domain .se as one of its main tasks.

IIS has approved to fund Daniel with 150000 SEK (~19000 USD) for libcurl development.

Read more

curl and libcurl 7.15.0 13 October 2005
7.15.0 is here. Check out what changes it contains.

Previous versions contain a security flaw that this release addresses.

One Hundred Thousand Unique Visitors 3 October 2005
September 2005 was the first month we had more than 100,000 (one hundred thousand) unique visitors on the curl web site.

curl packages were downloaded more than 20,000 times from the curl.haxx.se site only during the month.

Over the last year, we have gained approximately 50% more visitors on the web site.

Thanks to all you who make this possible: people writing stuff that show up on the site, people who help me admin the site, people hosting site mirrors, companies buying ads and people referring to our site from all over.

Mailing Lists Data Loss 22 September 2005
Added a separate page to explain the recent mailing list data loss we experienced.
Mailing Lists Restoration Work 19 September 2005
We didn't have a backup of the subscribers list of the mailing lists. Efforts have been made and some addresses have been restored and brought back, but many have been lost. If you want to subscribe to the lists, you should verify that you are still subscribed!

Sorry for this inconveniance.

Mailing Lists Wiped Out 17 September 2005
A "friendly" person deleted huge parts of cool.haxx.se today, which among other things hosts and runs our mailing lists. Currently all subscribers and all list info etc are gone.

We should be able to restore some of it from backups. Stay tuned. Please allow a few days before all things are back to normal.

It was done by using a security hole in twiki - used for another project on the same server. Aren't the world full of friendly souls? The IP originated from a country/region that makes it no point in persuing this legal wise.

curl and libcurl 7.14.1 1 September 2005
It took slightly longer than planned, but now 7.14.1 is here. Check out what changes it contains.
Distro Dilemma 1 September 2005
There's now a separate Distro Dilemma document that summarizes the background, the problem and the suggested road ahead.
OpenSSL or GnuTLS in Debian libcurl 25 August 2005
A debian-devel thread about using OpenSSL or GnuTLS for Debian's libcurl triggered Daniel's response, which was followed by more debian talks about it and Daniel's second follow-up.
Stricter Posting Requirements 13 July 2005
As posted to the lists, all curl-related mailing lists now require that you are subscribed before letting any mails through from you.
daily windows libcurl builds 12 July 2005
Over on the daily snapshots page, there is now going to appear a windows libcurl build every day built straight from CVS. It is built with mingw's -mms-bitfields and should therefore be possible to use both with mingw and MSVC. Report your problems or success stories to the libcurl list!
new Lua binding 28 June 2005
Alexander Marinov brought the new and shiny LuaCURL binding.
curlpp mailing list 24 May 2005
Starting now, we list the curlpp mailing list on the mailing list page and we host a web archive of the list. The curlpp mailing list is for discussions of curlpp, the C++ binding to libcurl.
curl and libcurl 7.14.0 16 May 2005
7.14.0 is here. Check out what changes it contains.
7.14.0 pre-release 2 11 May 2005
Try the 7.14.0 pre-release 2 - now with changed default HTTP request headers. in-progress RELEASE-NOTES
7.14.0 pre-release 1 9 May 2005
Feel brave? Try the 7.14.0 pre-release 1. The actual release is due out later this week, if things go right.
Simplify Network Programming with libCURL 9 May 2005
Go read Ethan McCallum's educating article Simplify Network Programming with libCURL
curl and libcurl 7.13.2 5 April 2005
Go download 7.13.2 and read up about the latest changes.
curl-tracker is a new mailing list! 14 March 2005
curl-tracker is a new mailing list that'll receive mails from the sourceforge trackers. All new submissions and changes to existing entries will also be mailed there.
Daily Windows Builds 14 March 2005
Since a couple of days, we provide daily windows builds for you bleeding edge people. You find them on the daily snapshots page.

They have all the latest features and bugs.

curl security 8 March 2005
Added a security page to the site, listing our security contact address and security advisories of the past.
curl and libcurl 7.13.1 4 March 2005
download the latest changes.
libcurl NTLM Buffer Overflow 22 February 2005
As was posted to bugtraq, all versions of curl that supports NTLM has this flaw. The fix. It requires a malicious server to send an unexpectedly long NTLM response header to trigger. (No, we were not contacted nor notified about this problem before they went public.)

I'll be away for a week now but I'll put together a new release when I get back.

CAN-2005-0490

curl and libcurl 7.13.0 1 February 2005
You know the drill: download and read changelog.
curl and libcurl 7.12.3 20 December 2004
download and read changelog.
Server Downtime 9 November 2004
The server hosting the curl-related mailing lists, the CVS repository and a few other minor services will be taken down for maintenance, roughly between 17:00 and 21:00 CET.
curl and libcurl 7.12.2 18 October 2004
download and read changelog.
Download Wizard 4 October 2004
The curl Download Wizard helps you find and pick the correct file to download!
curl and libcurl 7.12.1 10 August 2004
download and read changelog. Enjoy.
Get CA certs from Mozilla 9 August 2004
Learn how to extract CA certs from Mozilla to use with (lib)curl.
Summer Slowdown 2 July 2004
During the rest of July and the beginning of August, Daniel is on vacation and things might run a bit slower than usual in the project.
200 test cases 15 June 2004
Today, the official test case count reached 200!
curl and libcurl 7.12.0 2 June 2004
Another release! Go download and read about the changes.
New Mailing List for Pycurl hackers! 2 June 2004
Just go here.
Moved CVS 14 May 2004
The curl CVS repository moved to another host (again).
international domain names support 29 April 2004
We're currently implementing "IDNA" support to libcurl to allow it to function with international domain names. We appreciate if you download a daily snapshot, try it out and report your mileage!
curl and libcurl 7.11.2 26 April 2004
We are happy to announce curl 7.11.2! Read about all the changes.
curl all over 21 April 2004

Recently added mirrors:

curl and libcurl 7.11.1 19 March 2004
The curl project is happy to announce curl 7.11.1! Read about all the changes.
7.11.1 pre-release 1 8 March 2004
Try out the 7.11.1 pre-release 1, and read the upcoming RELEASE-NOTES.
All Planned Issues for Next Release Fixed! 5 March 2004
Here's what the planned RELEASE-NOTES looks like. Do you know anything in particular we should address before the next release?
Any Feedback on the Issue 12 Patch? 2 March 2004
If you've suffered from the issue 12 bug, please try the patch and report!.
Many Automated Tests! 20 February 2004
There is now a large number of different platforms for the automated tests...
the Mailing Lists Move! 5 February 2004

All curl mailing lists will be moved away from sourceforge. No user will be moved automatically, you need to subscribe yourself on the new list-server.

There will be a period during which we will have to live with the lists being hosted on two different places, to allow everyone to catch up with the news. During this period there will be duplicates of each list. Please join the new lists as soon as possible. If possible, also unsubscribe from the old one(s), as it provides a visible feedback for me on how the transition is going.

Subscribe to the new mailing lists here:

curl and libcurl 7.11.0 22 January 2004
The curl project is happy to announce curl 7.11.0! Read about all the changes.
7.11.0 pre-release 1 12 January 2004
We're approaching release time for the upcoming curl 7.11.0, and in good old fashion we offer a pre-release of it.
Setting Down the Foot 7 January 2004
We have but a few final changes left to make before we can put together the upcoming 7.11.0 release: TODO-RELEASE. We have use for your help!
FTPS support 27 November 2003
We now have initial working FTPS support in libcurl. Try a CVS or daily build version!
FTPS server help? 17 November 2003
If you have a somewhat standard-compliant FTPS-server and feel like helping out the project, we could use your help!
7.10.8 1 November 2003
curl and libcurl 7.10.8 has been released!

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