{"id":2642,"date":"2011-03-20T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2011-03-20T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:55:18","slug":"curlyears-plus-equals-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/curlyears-plus-equals-one\/","title":{"rendered":"curlyears plus equals one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-253\" title=\"Birthdaycake\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/birthdaycake.jpg\" alt=\"Birthdaycake\" width=\"220\" height=\"185\" \/>Thirteen years ago I released the first version of <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/\">curl<\/a> to the world &#8211; on March 20 1998. curl is now a teenage project and there&#8217;s no slowdown or end in sight.<\/p>\n<p>So what does a project like ours introduce after having existed for so long? The recent year has been full of\u00c2\u00a0activities\u00c2\u00a0in the project, and here&#8217;s a run down with some of the stuff that has been going on:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We <a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/curl-goes-git\/\">switched source code versioning<\/a> system from CVS to git<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/changes.html#7_21_2\">gopher support<\/a> got back into curl<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">support for <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/changes.html#7_21_0\">RTMP<\/a> was added<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Two additional SSL libraries are now supported: <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/changes.html#7_21_0\">PolarSSL<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/changes.html#7_21_4\">axTLS<\/a>, making it a total of <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/docs\/ssl-compared.html\">seven<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">70 persons provided code into the git repository, making the <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/docs\/thanks.html\">THANKS<\/a> document now list 854 names.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">About 1000 commits were made &#8211; out of a total of almost 14000 (counted from Dec 1999) so it makes this year slightly under average in terms of commit rate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">6 releases were shipped with a total of 179 bugfixes<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/docs\/security.html#20101013\">1 security flaw<\/a> was found and fixed<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">More than 4900 mails were posted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/mail\/\">curl mailing lists<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We introduced a unit test system<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Over 1400GB of data was downloaded from the curl web site<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">During the end of this period, 45% of our web visitors used Firefox, 23% used Chrome and less than 20% used IE. 75% were on Windows, 13% on Linux and 10% on Mac.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64  aligncenter\" title=\"cURL\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/curl-keywords300.jpg\" alt=\"cURL\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen years ago I released the first version of curl to the world &#8211; on March 20 1998. curl is now a teenage project and there&#8217;s no slowdown or end in sight. So what does a project like ours introduce after having existed for so long? The recent year has been full of\u00c2\u00a0activities\u00c2\u00a0in the project, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/curlyears-plus-equals-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">curlyears plus equals one<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[32,33],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curl","category-floss","tag-anniversary","tag-curl-and-libcurl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}