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
Native Schannel TLS stack of #Windows was so unreliable it got axed from #curl:
* Never worked reliably under real‑world loads.
* Quirky, cumbersome API/architecture that broke integrations.
* Zero developer interest—nobody tested or maintained it.
* Pure maintenance drag with no real benefit.
So #Microsoft again shipped a built‑in that nobody uses, and projects ditch it entirely in favor of better third‑party alternatives.
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
Welcome Caolán McNamara as #curl commit author 1395: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17996
Welcome Pino Toscano as #curl commit author 1394: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17975
take a guess if the same company now emailed the exact same CRA compliance questionnaire they sent to the #curl project last week, to the libssh2 project!
Correct. They did.
@bagder #curl 8.15.0 Windows binaries here: https://curl.se/windows/ Now with Control Flow Guard enabled also for x64 (ARM64 already had it).
#curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/curl_creator_mulls_nixing_bug/
I'm happy to say that we have zero #curl CVEs to announce this time.