[Daniel's week] September 13, 2025

[Daniel Stenberg]

Hello friends

A perhaps slightly shorter email than normally this week, but things 
happened...

## developer of the year

At the award gala yesterday that I attended because I was one of three
nominees for the "developer of the year" award 2025, it was revealed that I
was the winner [6]. It is of course awesome and I feel both humble and
grateful at receiving my second (!) award this calendar year.

Being at a gala full of developers, I ended up getting quite a few hand
shakes, doing a number of selfies with fans and I was given and offered a fair
number of beers... Thank you everyone. I feel appreciated.

## curl 8.16.0

This version boasts the largest number of documented changes in a single
release than we ever have shipped before. Of course that also relates to what
exactly that constitutes as a change and how well we documented them - and we
were more lenient in the distant past, but still; this is a feature-packed
release.

We have received a few regressions in the few days that have passed, but none
of them have so far been significant or alarming enough to trigger a patch
release. I'm crossing my fingers that this remains.

I think the most problematic regression is the one we discovered in the name
resolver thread logic as we had to completely give up on using
pthread_cancel() [7] after Stefan's struggles and thorough research. Is it bad
enough for a patch release?

## all headers

We received a feature request so I wrote up a way for curl's -w option to
output the contents of all headers using a certain name [x]. If the header is
used multiple times either in a single response or if the transfer involves
redirects. I think it was a sensible idea and a feature that can turn out
useful.

## major incident

Jim Fuller extended the curl vulnerability disclosure document with details on
how we should deal with a major incident [3].

## summit keynote

The keynote I did at Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam a few weeks ago
was put up on YouTube [1]. The LWN article [4] about it was noticed and
discussed on Hacker News [5].

## EuroBSDCon

I will be in Zagreb Croatia, and keynote on September 28 at EuroBSDCon[2].
Come say hi and get some curl stickers from me.

## Coming up

- another week of feature freeze in the curl project

## Links

[1] = https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09/08/giants-standing-on-the-shoulders-of/
[2] = https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
[3] = https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09/09/preparing-for-the-worst/
[4] = https://lwn.net/Articles/1034966/
[5] = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217858
[6] = https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09/13/developer-of-the-year/
[7] = https://eissing.org/icing/posts/rip_pthread_cancel/

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