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diff --git a/docs/HISTORY.md b/docs/HISTORY.md index 30249071a..c5ed13846 100644 --- a/docs/HISTORY.md +++ b/docs/HISTORY.md @@ -7,9 +7,12 @@ currency-exchange calculations available to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) users. All the necessary data were published on the Web; he just needed to automate their retrieval. -Daniel simply adopted an existing command-line open-source tool, httpget, that -Brazilian Rafael Sagula had written and recently released version 0.1 of. After -a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed. +1996 +---- + +Daniel adopted an existing command-line open-source tool, httpget, that +Brazilian Rafael Sagula had written and recently released version 0.1 +of. After a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed. 1997 ---- @@ -58,7 +61,7 @@ OpenSSL took over and SSLeay was abandoned. May: first Debian package. -August: LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300 visits +August: LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl website gets 1300 visits weekly. Moved site to curl.haxx.nu. September: Released curl 6.0. 15000 lines of code. @@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ other software and programs to be based on and powered by libcurl. Almost June: the curl site moves to "curl.haxx.se" -August, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly. +August, the curl website gets 4000 visits weekly. The PHP guys adopted libcurl already the same month, when the first ever third party libcurl binding showed up. CURL has been a supported module in PHP since @@ -106,7 +109,7 @@ The first experimental ftps:// support was added. August: curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more and more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD -ports collections. The curl web site gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation +ports collections. The curl website gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation contacted Daniel to discuss "the name issue". After Daniel's reply, they have never since got back in touch again. @@ -117,7 +120,7 @@ without many whistles. 2002 ---- -June: the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is +June: the curl website gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is 35000 lines of code. Reported successful compiles on more than 40 combinations of CPUs and operating systems. @@ -126,9 +129,11 @@ impossible. Around 5000 downloaded packages each week from the main site gives a hint, but the packages are mirrored extensively, bundled with numerous OS distributions and otherwise retrieved as part of other software. -September: with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT license +October 1: with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT license only. +Starting with 7.10, curl verifies SSL server certificates by default. + 2003 ---- @@ -162,7 +167,7 @@ August: Curl and libcurl 7.12.1 Available command line options: 96 Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 120 Number of public functions in libcurl: 36 - Amount of public web site mirrors: 12 + Amount of public website mirrors: 12 Number of known libcurl bindings: 26 2005 @@ -175,7 +180,7 @@ April: Added the multi_socket() API September: TFTP support was added. -More than 100,000 unique visitors of the curl web site. 25 mirrors. +More than 100,000 unique visitors of the curl website. 25 mirrors. December: security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow @@ -218,6 +223,8 @@ November: March: security vulnerability: libcurl Arbitrary File Access +April: added CMake support + August: security vulnerability: libcurl embedded zero in cert name December: Added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP @@ -281,7 +288,9 @@ April: added the cyassl backend (later renamed to WolfSSL) March: first real release supporting HTTP/2 - September: Web site had 245,000 unique visitors and served 236GB data + September: Website had 245,000 unique visitors and served 236GB data + + SMB and SMBS support 2015 ---- @@ -304,9 +313,11 @@ April: added the cyassl backend (later renamed to WolfSSL) 2017 ---- + July: OSS-Fuzz started fuzzing libcurl + September: Added Multi-SSL support - The web site serves 3100 GB/month + The website serves 3100 GB/month Public curl releases: 169 Command line options: 211 @@ -316,6 +327,8 @@ April: added the cyassl backend (later renamed to WolfSSL) October: SSLKEYLOGFILE support, new MIME API + October: Daniel received the Polhem Prize for his work on curl + November: brotli 2018 @@ -344,3 +357,28 @@ April: added the cyassl backend (later renamed to WolfSSL) curl_easy_setopt() options: 261 Public functions in libcurl: 80 Contributors: 1808 + + December: removed axTLS support + +2019 +---- + + March: added experimental alt-svc support + + August: the first HTTP/3 requests with curl. + + September: 7.66.0 is released and the tool offers parallel downloads + +2020 +---- + + curl and libcurl are installed in an estimated 10 *billion* instances + world-wide. + + January: added BearSSL support + + March: removed support for PolarSSL, added wolfSSH support + + April: experimental MQTT support + + August: zstd support |