Updated: curl/libcurl-doc/-devel/4, mingw64-x86_64-curl 8.14.1 - multi-protocol file transfer tool
Cygwin curl Maintainer
Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Sat Jun 7 20:41:25 GMT 2025
Command line tool and Library supporting transferring files with
URL syntax, using FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT,
and FILE, SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP
form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication
(Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate...), file transfer resume, proxy
tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.
For more information see the project home page:
https://curl.se/
Upstream now includes the latest release of wCurl - a simple
download wrapper shell script that makes it easy setting output
defaults, names, timestamps, downloading in parallel, etc.
Documentation is provided as a wcurl(1) man page, under
/usr/share/doc/curl/wcurl/, and under its own project home page:
https://github.com/curl/wcurl
The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
- curl 8.14.1
- libcurl-doc 8.14.1
- libcurl-devel 8.14.1
- libcurl4 8.14.1
- mingw64-x86_64-curl 8.14.1
For information on security vulnerabilities and fixes see:
https://curl.se/docs/vuln-8.14.1.html
As there are many functions and changes each release see below,
https://curl.se/ch/8.14.1.html or /usr/share/doc/curl/RELEASE-NOTES
after installation.
2025-06-04 8.14.1
Public curl releases: 268
Command line options: 269
curl_easy_setopt() options: 308
Public functions in libcurl: 96
Contributors: 3431
Planned upcoming removals include:
- Support for the msh3 HTTP/3 backend
- Supporting curl builds using VS2008
- The Secure Transport and BearSSL TLS backends
- The winbuild build system
- Windows CE support
See https://curl.se/dev/deprecate.html
For known bugs; see:
https://curl.se/docs/knownbugs.html or
/usr/share/doc/curl/KNOWN_BUGS after installation
For all changes ever done in curl, see:
https://curl.se/changes.html
This release includes the following bugfixes:
- asyn-thrdd: fix cleanup when RR fails due to OOM
- autotools: recognize more Linux targets when setting `-D_GNU_SOURCE`
- BUG-BOUNTY.md. mention the medium bounty amount in 2025
- cmake: fix missed version number for multi-pkg-config detections
- cmdline-docs: mention HTTP resumed uploads to be shaky
- curl: make -N handled correctly
- curl: upload from '.' fix
- dllmain: exclude from Cygwin builds
- docs/tests: remove mention of hyper
- docs: fix typos
- ftp: fix teardown of DATA connection in done
- http: fail early when rewind of input failed when following redirects
- license: update some copyright links to curl.se
- memanalyze.pl: fix getaddrinfo/freeaddrinfo checks
- misc: fix spelling
- misc: we write *an* IPv6 address
- multi: fix add_handle resizing
- spelling: 'a' vs 'an'
- spelling: call it null-terminate consistently
- test1510: fix expectation
- tests: await portfile to be complete
- tests: fix checks for https-mtls proto
- tests: improve server start reliability
- tests: move test docs into /docs
- tests: re-enable 1510, document heimdal memleak
- tests: test mtls also w/ clientAuth EKU only
- tests: test mtls with --insecure
- tls BIOs: handle BIO_CTRL_EOF correctly
- tool_getparam: make --no-anyauth not be accepted
- tool_getparam: refactored, simplified
- tool_getparam: remove two nextarg NULL checks
- VULN-DISCLOSURE-POLICY.md: the distros list wants <= 7 days embargo
- wolfssl: fix sending of early data
- ws: handle blocked sends better
- ws: tests and fixes
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