Ubuntu Server 25.10 removes wget from its default installation, in favour of wcurl, a wrapper included with curl.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/ubuntu-server-25-10-replaces-wget-with-wcurl?v1
So I'm thinking of adding support for %time{} in #curl's -w function.
One reason for doing this is for users who use -w for logging and want to include the time of the event (post-transfer) in a convenient way.
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18119
Feel free to share your opinion!
Tumbleweed brought major upgrades like #hwinfo 25, #systemd‑rpm‑macros 26, & #Amarok 3.3.0 in July. Plus enhancements to #GStreamer, #curl 8.15.0 and #nvme‑cli 2.15. Tons of new features & security fixes! #openSUSE #Linux https://news.opensuse.org/2025/08/01/tw-monthly-update-july/
#curl adds parallel host control
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/01/curl-adds-parallel-host-control/
On this day 26 years ago, the #curl website premiered on the host "curl.haxx.nu", as it moved over from having been hosted on my personal [company]/~dast/curl sub page previously.
Less than a year later we switched again to curl.haxx.se. We could not use the .se domain earlier because of limits in the TLD ruleset before that point.
We would then stay on that hostname for some twenty years.
This calm and lovely night, #curl got its 271st command line option merged and we call this baby --parallel-max-host
Enjoy!
Bring us your feedback on this idea and PR: make #curl output its cheat-sheet.
Option parsing in #curl. Something we can start using in two years or so.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/31/option-parsing-in-curl/
I'm happy to report that the glitches that could happen in #curl when you did more than 2.2 billion transfers in a single invoke are now history.
The "good" people at Emerson for some reason couldn't think for themselves when I responded to them on behalf of #curl and instead continue and send the same questions to the #libssh2 project with the same "demands".
"This is a gentle reminder regarding our earlier request for your input on the cybersecurity risk assessment of the software component “libssh2” version 1.11.0, as part of our compliance efforts with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)."
Output nothing with #curl --out-null
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/30/output-nothing-with-out-null/
Adding HTTP/3 Proxy CONNECT & MASQUE (CONNECT-UDP) Support to #cURL
Carving out msh3. #curl drops an HTTP/3 backend.
--out-null is #curl's 270th command line option.
Discard all response output of a transfer silently. This is the more efficient
and portable version of
curl https://host.example -o /dev/null
The transfer is done in full, all data is received and checked, but the bytes are not written anywhere. --out-null is associated with a single URL. Use it once per URL when you use several URLs in a command line.
starting in the pending #curl 8.16.0, curl will default to TLS 1.2 as a minimum even if the TLS library can do lower versions
#Curl is being updated to include a new wcurl tool for downloading files. This sounds like, instead of dumping the file to stdout like curl normally does unless you manually redirect or pipe it to a file, this will basically be a curl based alternative to wget.
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/curl/wcurl.1.en.html
