Developing curl

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This is the section of the website devoted to the development of curl and libcurl. If you are just a "user" of curl or libcurl, this may not be where you want to hang out.

There is always development going on in the curl project. To help out the development team, we provide these services:

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 will be 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 2025-02-05.
• RELEASE-NOTES is the current work in progress document for the next release.
• DEPRECATE - the plan for upcoming removals of features.
• 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 will become is discussed there.
• A few devs and users hang out on IRC, in the #curl channel on irc.libera.chat
• We also get pull requests filed at github.

Developer Documentation

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

• 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.
• Internals describes how things work internally in curl, for code hackers, bug fixers and generally interested parties.
• Learn how to write a Security Advisory for curl.
• The KNOWN_BUGS list.
• Thanks to these people, curl exists as it is today!