cURL 8.8.0 Release: New Features, Changes, and Project Overview
The article introduces the cURL project and its command‑line tool, explains that curl 8.8.0 has been officially released without known security issues, and lists the eight notable changes including libcurl enhancements, protocol support, macOS/iOS AppleIDN integration, and experimental Encrypted Client Hello.
cURL is a network data transfer project; the term usually refers to the curl command‑line tool, which supports protocols such as DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet, and TFTP. The underlying library is libcurl, and together they constitute the cURL project.
curl 8.8.0 has been officially released; this version contains no reported security vulnerabilities. It is the 257th release, includes eight new changes, fixes 220 bugs, and comprises 348 commits.
Changes
curl_version_info() now provides the librtmp version.
Support for directory listings with the file:// scheme.
AppleIDN support added for macOS/iOS.
Added curl_multi_waitfds function.
mbedTLS now supports CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST .
Dropped support for NTLM_WB .
Experimental Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support.
Added CURLU_GET_EMPTY for empty queries and fragments.
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