curl 8.18.0

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Release presentation

Numbers

the 272nd release
5 changes
63 days (total: 10,155)
391 bugfixes (total: 13,376)
758 commits (total: 37,486)
0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)
0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 308)
0 new curl command line option (total: 273)
69 contributors, 36 new (total: 3,571)
37 authors, 14 new (total: 1,430)
6 security fixes (total: 176)

Security

This time there is no less than six separate vulnerabilities announced.

Changes

There are a few this time, mostly around dropping support for various dependencies:

  • drop support for VS2008 (Windows)
  • drop Windows CE / CeGCC support
  • drop support for GnuTLS < 3.6.5
  • gnutls: implement CURLOPT_CAINFO_BLOB
  • openssl: bump minimum OpenSSL version to 3.0.0

Bugfixes

See the release presentation video for a walk-through of some of the most important/interesting fixes done for this release, or go check out the full list in the changelog.