curl / Development

Developing curl

This is the section of the website devoted to the development of curl and libcurl. There is always development going on in the curl project.

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Generated contents

Build and source information that is updated all the time:

• Automatic Builds - We build curl automatically non-stop to verify that it builds and works. Learn how to autobuild and read the autobuild stats.
• Test Clutch - the curl test run aggregation and analysis system.
• Daily Snapshot - The latest version of curl, packaged and provided daily.
• git stats, updated daily
• dashboard - daily updated graphs showing current project status

Broadcasted commit info

Each push to the git repository is announced over various systems.

• Mail is sent to the curl-commits mailing list
• Via an RSS feed

Work in progress

Stuff being worked on for the next release.

• Next release is scheduled to ship on 2026-09-02.
• RELEASE-NOTES is the current work in progress document for the next release.
• Deprecate - the plan for upcoming removals of features.
• Experimental - new features that are on their way in.
• Source code - check out the latest code directly from git
• Release calendar, pick your format: ICAL, HTML

Bugs and discussions

• Bug tracker [github] - submit problems there. See also the KNOWN_BUGS document.
• libcurl mailing list - Development talk and thoughts about how the future may become is discussed there.
• A few devs and users hang out on IRC, in the #curl channel on irc.libera.chat - or on Matrix.
• We also get pull requests filed at github.

Developer Documentation

Most of these are documents from the source archive converted to webpages here for your convenience.

• Dependency versions - minimum supported versions for curl's dependencies
• TODO - we try to maintain lists of what things you could help us with and features a future curl release might get.
• Contribute explains about a few things to consider when you contribute with patches and source code to the curl project.
• Learn how to write a Security Advisory for curl.
• The KNOWN_BUGS list.
• Thanks to these people, curl exists as it is today!