The curl project received a bunch of reports from Joshua Rogers who has a long and very detailed blog post about what he did. If you follow me on mastodon, it is hard to miss my rather negative views on the current AI offerings. The reports by Joshua were my first real life encounters with a good application of LLMs. Have I misjudged things? Separate Technology from Policy The way “AI” technology is pushed down people’s throats is really bad. This is obviously driven by people who have ...| Posts on icing's blog
Today we merged a new feature in curl: support for Apple SecTrust. This will become available in curl 8.17.0, due to be released on the 5th of November 2025. What is it and why would you care? Trusting https: connections means a client verifies that the certificates sent by a server are all cryptographic signed correctly. That chain of trust needs to start somewhere with a set of “root” certificates, or more aptly named “trust anchors”.| icing's blog
(This is the first time I was release manager (RM) for Apache httpd. It would be more aptly named release caretaker since it is mainly shuffling all the puzzle pieces around to make the stars align.) Some highlights from this release and what it brings you as a user. I can’t touch on everything since the improvements and fixes are done by many people. The complete list is, as always, available in the CHANGES 2.4.| icing's blog