@ChrisPirillo I remember when some #TechYoutuber showcased one.
Propably Soon: another #DDoS #botnet made out of them , cuz even the most butchered #linux-based #firmware can run a statically-linked version of #curl.
It would certainly make sense IMHO! I just don't do it as a matter of principle!
![I ran strace on curl and noticed that it is doing a lot of very short reads, of exactly 5 bytes, followed by a larger read.
strace Before
recvfrom(4, "\27\3\3@\30", 5, 0, NULL, NULL) = 5
...](https://files.shakedown.social/cache/preview_cards/images/010/539/229/original/c3ca4c6d1b1be86a.png "I ran strace on curl and noticed that it is doing a lot of very short reads, of exactly 5 bytes, followed by a larger read.
strace Before
recvfrom(4, "\27\3\3@\30", 5, 0, NULL, NULL) = 5
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oldest #curl version in a bug report filed today, and we're not even at 9am yet: 7.4 years
How does #curl connect to which host when doing HTTP? First draft.
The new #curl CVE-2025-5399 is an infinite loop in the WebSocket code: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-5399.html
#curl 8.14.1 is out
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/06/04/curl-8-14-1/
Thanks to Calvin Ruocco, Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, denandz on github, Ethan Everett, Jacob Mealey, Jeremy Drake, Jeroen Ooms, John Bampton, Kadambini Nema, Michael Kaufmann, Rasmus Melchior Jacobsen, Ray Satiro, Samuel Henrique, Stefan Eissing, Viktor Szakats, x-xiang on github, Yedaya Katsman, Yuyi Wang, z2_
Welcome Jeremy Drake as #curl commit author 1376: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17528
daily updated git stats for #curl: https://curl.se/gitstats/authors.html
24 hours to next #curl release: 8.14.1
In today's #curl git stats, we can spot that @icing has climbed to all-time committer number seven based on number of commits (665).
Number three based on number of added lines (116,415).
And yet his first commit was merged as late as November 2021. It's never too late to make an impact.
Thanks Stefan! 
There is apparently a #curl version you can install with winget on Windows.
But who makes it and who decides how to build it? I don't know. And it isn't easy to figure that out either.
Are you interested in helping out to make a Network.framework SSL backend for #curl?
The Secure Transport one is going away and this could be a new way to use the native Apple system.
But code does not write itself. There is an embryo started, but it needs love.
From the department of useless numbers:
Since the year 2000, I have committed to the #curl source git repository on 5,400 individual dates. 58% of all days since.
Did my duty for the pending #curl patch release on Wednesday. The photo.
assessing #curl security reports on a Saturday while my freshly baked rhubarb crumble pie is cooling off
