{"id":12518,"date":"2023-03-22T14:02:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=12518"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:16:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:16:18","slug":"happy-25th-curl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=12518","title":{"rendered":"Happy 25th, curl!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Version 8 of the curl<\/em> command line too has been released, German It news website reports. This coincides with the software’s 25th birthday.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The release of a new major version (8.0O of curl (Client for URLs) has been released just in time for the software’s 25th birthday. The data transfer command line<\/a> tool has barely changed. The new release has far more to do with publicising the birthday of the software and its libcurl<\/em> program library. This was explained by curl’s initiator and maintainer Daniel Stenberg when announcing the release. In moving to a version 8Stenberg also wanted to avoid ending up with a curl version seven with point releases running to three figures (7.xxx).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Little has changed within curl itself with this release: 8.0 is just the first release of curl that no longer runs on systems without working 64-bit data types, as can be gathered from the release notes<\/a>. Otherwise, the new version contains 130 bug fixes, including six vulnerabilities of which Stenberg classifies five as “low<\/em>” and one as “medium<\/em>“. Furthermore, there are rewards ranging from $480 to $2,400 for those who successfully squash curl’s bugs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n