#curl 8.9.0 is out: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/07/24/curl-8-9-0/

2 CVEs fixed
11 changes
260 bugfixes

by 80 contributors, out of which 47 authored commits

in 63 days since the previous release

A short story of a question turned into a new pending #curl feature:

https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/14242

How to Request rate limiting with fraction/custom time unit? · curl curl · Discussion #14242

I naively tested to rate limit curl with --rate 5/10s but complained with following message: curl: unsupported --rate unit curl: conf:1: '--rate' is badly used here curl: cannot read config from 'c...

^GitHub

On this day twenty-six years ago I released #curl 4.7

It does not make be feel old at all. 😁

https://curl.se/changes.html#4_7

Starting now: on the #curl changelog page where it lists all changes ever done to all #curl releases ever done, it now also conveniently links to the "known vulnerabilities" for each released version.

https://curl.se/changes.html

Mr @icing is now ranked as committer number ten counted by the number of authored commits merged in the #curl project. Number four by the number of added lines.

In less than three years since his first commit.

“You know what we call that, @bagder? Total World Domination.” – @jerod

Where ISN’T #curl?! 🎥 https://youtu.be/Vefr0IsPoBA

When in doubt, reach for #curl to check what’s actually happening.

I forgot this maxim and wasted an hour through misunderstanding what was going on.