What’s New in curl 8.13.0? Over 300 Fixes and Major Feature Additions
curl 8.13.0 shatters previous records with more than 300 bug fixes, 501 new commits, and a host of new features such as TLS early data support, enhanced URL handling, and expanded rustls capabilities, all detailed in its comprehensive changelog.
Explanation
curl 8.13.0 breaks previous project records. This is the first release since the last version to include over 300 bug fixes, so many that the author stopped listing favorite fixes in blog posts.
It also broke the record for the number of commits merged into the repository since the last release: 501 commits.
curl Major Changelog
New write variable ‘tls_earlydata’
--url supports files with URLs
Added “64dec” function for base64 decoding
IMAP: added CURLOPT_UPLOAD_FLAGS and --upload-flags
Added CURLFOLLOW_OBEYCODE and CURLFOLLOW_FIRSTONLY
gnutls: set priority via --ciphers
OpenSSL/quictls: support TLSv1.3 early data
wolfSSL: support TLSv1.3 early data
rustls: added support for CERTINFO
rustls: added support for SSLKEYLOGFILE
rustls: support ECH and DoH lookup configuration
rustls: support native platform verifier
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