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Dropping Heimdal?

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 11:52:53 +0200 (CEST)

Hello,

We currently support GSS-API with libcurl using three different libraries.

As I just added a test case that runs code not previously run in the test
suite, I spot what looks like a memory leak in Heimdal.

The Heimdal project looks rather abandoned when I look at their GitHub
repository. (Not a commit in six months and all builds reported failing.)

In order to protect our users against leaks and a stale third party
dependency, I want to drop support for Heimdal and focus users toward MIT krb5
or GNU GSS instead.

Thoughts? Objections?

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18928

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Received on 2025-10-08