25 curl distro discussion 2026
Daniel Stenberg edited this page 2026-03-26 22:08:49 +01:00

What?

A video meeting/discussion/event talking curl and distro related topics.

Objective

To make curl better in distros. To make distros do better curl. To improve curl.

Discuss

On the curl-distros mailing list

we will use a new one next year!

Invited

Everyone!

Plans to join

  • Daniel Stenberg, curl developer
  • Achill Gilgenast <achill@achill.org>, Alpine Linux developer & maintainer of the curl-package
  • Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org>, Alpine Linux developer
  • John Chittum <john.chittum@canonical.com>, Canonical Engineering Manager, Ubuntu Developer
  • Ural Tunaboyu <ural.tunaboyu@canonical.com>, Ubuntu Core Developer
  • Dan Fandrich @dfandrich, curl developer, Mageia developer & curl package maintainer
  • Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org>, Debian Developer & co-maintainer of the curl-package
  • James Fuller <jfuller@redhat.com>, Red Hat
  • Carlos Henrique Lima Melara (charles) <charles@debian.org>, Debian Developer & co-maintainer of the curl-package
  • Matt Jolly <kangie@gentoo.org>, Gentoo Developer, maintainer of net-misc/curl
  • Viktor Szakats, curl & curl-for-win contributor
  • Stefan Eissing, curl developer

When

March 26 2026 at 17:00 UTC (local time)

Agenda

(last year)

Feel free to add topics or questions you want to ask, bring up or otherwise discuss.

Topic Description
Welcome Join, take it easy, let's do this
Introductions Who we are
Status Updates about where we are in the project, and a poll of how distros feel about the state of curl in their ends
Upstream Are there problems detected in the distros we should take care of better upstream? What can the curl project do to help distributors more? Build system, third party libraries, documentation, tests, API/ABI etc.
Patches Can the curl project do anything to help unload distributors from some of their locally maintained patches?
Security/advisories Can the curl project do anything to better streamline the work when we release security advisories for new releases?
Testing Can we improve the testing situation upstream/downstream? Anyone verifies the reproducibility of the tarballs?
HTTP/3 OpenSSL-QUIC is gone, does it matter?
NTLM and SMB go opt-in
trurl status
wcurl status
pending DEPRECATE items RTMP, old c-ares, old cmake
curl up 2026 everyone is welcome