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diff --git a/docs/HISTORY b/docs/HISTORY deleted file mode 100644 index f878ee105..000000000 --- a/docs/HISTORY +++ /dev/null @@ -1,284 +0,0 @@ - _ _ ____ _ - ___| | | | _ \| | - / __| | | | |_) | | - | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ - \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| - -How cURL Became Like This -========================= - -Towards the end of 1996, Daniel Stenberg was spending time writing an IRC bot -for an Amiga related channel on EFnet. He then came up with the idea to make -currency-exchange calculations available to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) -users. All the necessary data are published on the Web; he just needed to -automate their retrieval. - -Daniel simply adopted an existing command-line open-source tool, httpget, that -Brazilian Rafael Sagula had written and recently release version 0.1 of. After -a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed. - -1997 ----- - -HttpGet 1.0 was released on April 8th 1997 with brand new HTTP proxy support. - -We soon found and fixed support for getting currencies over GOPHER. Once FTP -download support was added, the name of the project was changed and urlget 2.0 -was released in August 1997. The http-only days were already passed. - -1998 ----- - -The project slowly grew bigger. When upload capabilities were added and the -name once again was misleading, a second name change was made and on March 20, -1998 curl 4 was released. (The version numbering from the previous names was -kept.) - -(Unrelated to this project a company called Curl Corporation registered a US -trademark on the name "CURL" on May 18 1998. That company had then already -registered the curl.com domain back in November of the previous year. All this -was revealed to us much later.) - -SSL support was added, powered by the SSLeay library. - -August, first announcement of curl on freshmeat.net. - -October, with the curl 4.9 release and the introduction of cookie support, -curl was no longer released under the GPL license. Now we're at 4000 lines of -code, we switched over to the MPL license to restrict the effects of -"copyleft". - -November, configure script and reported successful compiles on several -major operating systems. The never-quite-understood -F option was added and -curl could now simulate quite a lot of a browser. TELNET support was added. - -Curl 5 was released in December 1998 and introduced the first ever curl man -page. People started making Linux RPM packages out of it. - -1999 ----- - -January, DICT support added. - -OpenSSL took over where SSLeay was abandoned. - -May, first Debian package. - -August, LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300 visits -weekly. Moved site to curl.haxx.nu. - -Released curl 6.0 in September. 15000 lines of code. - -December 28, added the project on Sourceforge and started using its services -for managing the project. - -2000 ----- - -Spring 2000, major internal overhaul to provide a suitable library interface. -The first non-beta release was named 7.1 and arrived in August. This offered -the easy interface and turned out to be the beginning of actually getting -other software and programs to get based on and powered by libcurl. Almost -20000 lines of code. - -June 2000: the curl site moves to "curl.haxx.se" - -August, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly. - -The PHP guys adopted libcurl already the same month, when the first ever third -party libcurl binding showed up. CURL has been a supported module in PHP since -the release of PHP 4.0.2. This would soon get followers. More than 16 -different bindings exist at the time of this writing. - -September, kerberos4 support was added. - -In November started the work on a test suite for curl. It was later re-written -from scratch again. The libcurl major SONAME number was set to 1. - -2001 ----- - -January, Daniel released curl 7.5.2 under a new license again: MIT (or -MPL). The MIT license is extremely liberal and can be used combined with GPL -in other projects. This would finally put an end to the "complaints" from -people involved in GPLed projects that previously were prohibited from using -libcurl while it was released under MPL only. (Due to the fact that MPL is -deemed "GPL incompatible".) - -curl supports HTTP 1.1 starting with the release of 7.7, March 22 2001. This -also introduced libcurl's ability to do persistent connections. 24000 lines of -code. The libcurl major SONAME number was bumped to 2 due to this overhaul. - -The first experimental ftps:// support was added in March 2001. - -August. curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more and -more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD -ports collections. The curl web site gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation -contacted Daniel to discuss "the name issue". After Daniel's reply, they have -never since got in touch again. - -September, libcurl 7.9 introduces cookie jar and curl_formadd(). During the -forthcoming 7.9.x releases, we introduced the multi interface slowly and -without much whistles. - -2002 ----- - -June, the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is -35000 lines of code. Reported successful compiles on more than 40 combinations -of CPUs and operating systems. - -To estimate number of users of the curl tool or libcurl library is next to -impossible. Around 5000 downloaded packages each week from the main site gives -a hint, but the packages are mirrored extensively, bundled with numerous OS -distributions and otherwise retrieved as part of other software. - -September, with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT license -only. - -2003 ----- - -January. Started working on the distributed curl tests. The autobuilds. - -February, the curl site averages at 20000 visits weekly. At any given moment, -there's an average of 3 people browsing the curl.haxx.se site. - -Multiple new authentication schemes are supported: Digest (May), NTLM (June) -and Negotiate (June). - -November: curl 7.10.8 is released. 45000 lines of code. ~55000 unique visitors -to the curl.haxx.se site. Five official web mirrors. - -December, full-fledged SSL for FTP is supported. - -2004 ----- - -January: curl 7.11.0 introduced large file support. - -June: curl 7.12.0 introduced IDN support. 10 official web mirrors. - -This release bumped the major SONAME to 3 due to the removal of the -curl_formparse() function - -August: Curl and libcurl 7.12.1 - - Public curl release number: 82 - Releases counted from the very beginning: 109 - Available command line options: 96 - Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 120 - Number of public functions in libcurl: 36 - Amount of public web site mirrors: 12 - Number of known libcurl bindings: 26 - -2005 ----- - -April. GnuTLS can now optionally be used for the secure layer when curl is -built. - -September: TFTP support was added. - -More than 100,000 unique visitors of the curl web site. 25 mirrors. - -December: security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow - -2006 ----- - -January. We dropped support for Gopher. We found bugs in the implementation -that turned out having been introduced years ago, so with the conclusion that -nobody had found out in all this time we removed it instead of fixing it. - -March: security vulnerability: libcurl TFTP Packet Buffer Overflow - -April: Added the multi_socket() API - -September: The major SONAME number for libcurl was bumped to 4 due to the -removal of ftp third party transfer support. - -November: Added SCP and SFTP support - -2007 ----- - -February: Added support for the Mozilla NSS library to do the SSL/TLS stuff - -July: security vulnerability: libcurl GnuTLS insufficient cert verification - -2008 ----- - -November: - - Command line options: 128 - curl_easy_setopt() options: 158 - Public functions in libcurl: 58 - Known libcurl bindings: 37 - Contributors: 683 - - 145,000 unique visitors. >100 GB downloaded. - -2009 ----- - -March: security vulnerability: libcurl Arbitrary File Access - -August: security vulnerability: libcurl embedded zero in cert name - -December: Added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP - -2010 ----- - -January: Added support for RTSP - -February: security vulnerability: libcurl data callback excessive length - -March: The project switched over to use git (hosted by github) instead of CVS -for source code control - -May: Added support for RTMP - -Added support for PolarSSL to do the SSL/TLS stuff - -August: - - Public curl releases: 117 - Command line options: 138 - curl_easy_setopt() options: 180 - Public functions in libcurl: 58 - Known libcurl bindings: 39 - Contributors: 808 - - Gopher support added (re-added actually) - -2012 ----- - - July: Added support for Schannel (native Windows TLS backend) and Darwin SSL - (Native Mac OS X and iOS TLS backend). - - Supports metalink - - October: SSH-agent support. - -2013 ----- - - February: Cleaned up internals to always uses the "multi" non-blocking - approach internally and only expose the blocking API with a wrapper. - - September: First small steps on supporting HTTP/2 with nghttp2. - - October: Removed krb4 support. - - December: Happy eyeballs. - -2014 ----- - - March: first real release supporting HTTP/2 - - September: Web site had 245,000 unique visitors and served 236GB data |