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dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Aug 20, 2026 · Backend Development

Why Did the 4‑Year Rust Rewrite of curl, 95% Complete, Suddenly Get Abandoned?

The article examines curl's long‑standing C implementation, its memory‑safety vulnerabilities, a four‑year effort to replace the libcurl backend with Rust's Hyper that reached 95% completion, and the decision to drop it because maintenance costs, a fragile C‑Rust glue layer, scarce expertise, and mismatched user demand outweighed the benefits.

HyperRustcurl
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Why Did the 4‑Year Rust Rewrite of curl, 95% Complete, Suddenly Get Abandoned?
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 13, 2025 · Backend Development

What’s New in cURL 8.16? Key Features, Security Fixes, and Performance Boosts

cURL 8.16 introduces 17 changes across 270 releases, adding new command‑line options like --follow and --out‑null, enhancing parallel connections, supporting WebSocket read functions, updating TLS defaults, fixing two low‑severity CVEs, and delivering over 250 bug fixes, making it a must‑update for developers and ops teams.

curllibcurl
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What’s New in cURL 8.16? Key Features, Security Fixes, and Performance Boosts
Open Source Tech Hub
Open Source Tech Hub
Jan 11, 2025 · Backend Development

Mastering PHP cURL: From Basics to Advanced Parallel Requests

This guide explains PHP’s cURL extension, covering installation, core concepts, step‑by‑step request setup, and practical examples for GET, POST, file download, redirect handling, error logging, and parallel requests, helping backend developers efficiently interact with external APIs and services.

APIHTTPPHP
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Mastering PHP cURL: From Basics to Advanced Parallel Requests
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
May 23, 2024 · Backend Development

cURL 8.8.0 Release: New Features, Changes, and Project Overview

The article introduces the cURL project and its command‑line tool, explains that curl 8.8.0 has been officially released without known security issues, and lists the eight notable changes including libcurl enhancements, protocol support, macOS/iOS AppleIDN integration, and experimental Encrypted Client Hello.

command-line toolcurllibcurl
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cURL 8.8.0 Release: New Features, Changes, and Project Overview
IT Services Circle
IT Services Circle
Oct 18, 2023 · Information Security

Critical libcurl Vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-38545 & CVE-2023-38546) and Upcoming curl 8.4.0 Patch

The article reports two high‑severity libcurl vulnerabilities (CVE‑2023‑38545 and CVE‑2023‑38546) disclosed by curl’s maintainer, explains the limited public information before the scheduled curl 8.4.0 release, and urges developers to upgrade promptly due to the library’s widespread use.

CVE-2023-38545CVE-2023-38546Security
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Critical libcurl Vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-38545 & CVE-2023-38546) and Upcoming curl 8.4.0 Patch
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
Jun 1, 2023 · Operations

cURL 8.1.2 Released – Bug Fixes and Improvements

cURL 8.1.2, the second patch of the 8.1.x series, introduces a range of bug fixes including corrected configure handling of $CC, improved nghttp2 linking without pkg-config, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 EOF handling enhancements, libcurl.m4 cleanup, and libssh authentication fixes.

BugFixesNetworkProtocolsSoftwareRelease
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cURL 8.1.2 Released – Bug Fixes and Improvements
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
Dec 22, 2022 · Backend Development

cURL 7.87 Release: New Features, Improvements, and Bug Fixes

cURL 7.87 has been officially released, introducing new command‑line options such as -url-query, enhancements like quick‑exit and CA cache timeout, expanded version‑info feature names, and a long list of bug fixes covering base64 handling, locale‑independent parsing, FTP, WebSocket, TLS‑proxy support, and more.

Backendcurllibcurl
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cURL 7.87 Release: New Features, Improvements, and Bug Fixes
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
Jun 28, 2022 · Backend Development

cURL 7.84 Release Notes: New Features, Deprecations, and Bug Fixes

cURL 7.84 introduces a new –rate option to limit transfer frequency, deprecates –random-file and –egd-file, adds thread‑safety indicators, expands CA path info, supports SSH host‑key callbacks, enables Unix‑socket SOCKS proxy usage, and includes various bug fixes such as improved CMake support and .netrc handling.

command-linelibcurlnetwork protocols
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cURL 7.84 Release Notes: New Features, Deprecations, and Bug Fixes