`certdata` dependency requires accessing api.github.com for
a reproducible timestamp, which in turn requires a GitHub token to avoid
errors due to rate limiting. Avoid all this by omitting this dependency,
which isn't necessary for these build tests anyway.
The `zero` job already did not use `certdata`, but disable explicitly
anyway just in case.
Reported-by: James Fuller
Follow-up to 9514184977
Follow-up to 128c252975#21105Closes#21241
via env `CURL_TEST_SSH_KEYALGO`, `rsa` (default), `ecdsa`, `ed25519`.
To ease debugging and testing and to make these code paths more
universal.
Closes#21223
libssh 0.12.0 on Windows 64-bit Intel fails to connect to sshd (with SSH
state 30) when using the mlkem768x25519-sha256 KEX. (32-bit Intel, ARM64
and tested non-Windows platforms work fine.) Fix by disabling this KEX
for the libssh job.
I do not recommend libssh on Windows due to bugs an insecure behavior.
Also:
- fix libssh TFLAGS condition for mingw-w64.
Follow-up to e127f8ce84#21204
Follow-up to fcf946e846#21195Closes#21199
- use it in a mingw-w64 job.
- add support for native ARM64 binaries.
- add ability to use built-in OpenSSH server in mingw-w64 jobs.
Cherry-picked from #21199Closes#21219
Bumping `msys2/setup-msys2` from 2.30.0 to 2.31.0 also brought libssh
0.12.0 (after 0.11.3). libssh has been long known for loading OpenSSH
configuration from disk insecurely on Windows. 0.12.0 brings some fixes
to this (CVE-2025-14821), which in turn may be changing its behavior on
the default GH Windows runner to fail all curl SCP/SFTP tests.
Detecting what is the exact root cause, then defining exact runtime
conditions for it is difficult and fragile. Same for changing these
libssh defaults (if at all possible.)
But, since configuration loading remains insecure and broken on Windows
even after the mitigations made by 0.12.0 [0], this patch removes libssh
from the Windows CI job using it previously.
If someone figures out how to run in CI, it can be readded, though in
general, using libssh on Windows seems to be less than ideal.
[0] 0e4bd38a5b/libssh.sh (L11-L94)
Refs:
https://www.libssh.org/2026/02/10/libssh-0-12-0-and-0-11-4-security-releases/91382507d5#21199 (unsuccessful fix attempts)
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/21195#issuecomment-4173085194
Follow-up to fcf946e846#21195Closes#21204
- update `actions/cache` from 5.0.3 to 5.0.4
- update `actions/download-artifact` from 7.0.0 to 8.0.1
- update `actions/upload-artifact` from 6.0.0 to 7.0.0
- update `msys2/setup-msys2` from 2.30.0 to 2.31.0
- update pip `ruff` from 0.15.7 to 0.15.8
Closes#21195Closes#21197
- fail if all retries failed.
- run `dpkg --configure -a` after an aborted slow attempt.
```
Selecting previously unselected package libsys-hostname-long-perl.
Error: slow server, retry
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
[...]
```
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/21107#issuecomment-4163506100
Follow-up to 5172ba5475#21107Closes#21181
- update `filelock` from 3.24.3 to 3.25.2
- update `ruff` from 0.15.2 to 0.15.7
- update `cryptography` from 46.0.5 to 46.0.6 (CVE-2026-34073)
Closes#21138
It's been going on for almost a year, chances seem slim to have this
fixed upstream.
The observed issue is that on GitHub-supplied CI runner images,
sometimes, `apt-get install` using the stock distro server
`http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu` sees extreme slowness while
downloading data, then reaching the job timeout and aborting, making CI
red and necessitating a manual restart of the failed job(s).
In majority of cases the install step takes no longer than 8-40 seconds
(download + install), while in the failing case it takes 10-20+ minutes
just to download.
Earlier I slimmed down installs to avoid unnecessary packages, which
mitigated, but did not completely fix the issue.
Example:
https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/23599596928/job/68725576899?pr=21105
Follow-up to 0455d8772a#18509Closes#21107
To avoid rate limits when accessing GH APIs during the build.
Aiming to avoid (while trying to retrieve a file timestamp):
```
++ [[ 2026-02-11-1a84aee6387d2f9c9531c655edeea4a80aa0fcfa =~ (.+)-([a-f0-9]{40,}) ]]
++ ver=2026-02-11
++ commit=1a84aee6387d2f9c9531c655edeea4a80aa0fcfa
++ set +x
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403
[...]
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/23598912140/job/68723120977?pr=21104
Follow-up to:
a26898fe4817f2fb3ead6dd6e47e98b461404b5aCloses#21105
Verify if lines are not longer than 192 characters. Also verify if lines
have less than 79 repeat spaces (and fix one fallout).
To improve readability by avoiding long lines and to prevent adding
overly long lines with text that may go unnoticed in an editor or diff
viewer.
In addition to pre-existing line length limits: 79 for C, 132 for CMake
sources.
Also:
- spacecheck: fix/harden allowlist regexes.
- spacecheck: tidy-up quotes and simplify escaping.
- spacecheck: allow folding strings with repeat spaces.
- GHA: fix a suppressed shellcheck warning.
- GHA/macos: simplify by dropping brew bundle.
- test1119.pl: precompile a regex.
- FAQ.md: delete very long link to a Windows 7/2008 support article
that's lost it relevance.
Closes#21087
c-ares builds have been sped up within curl-for-win using, pre-fills. It
allows building it with acceptable performance, making it practical to
use it, alongside HTTPS-RR, in curl CI and possibly in curl-for-win. It
has been enabled in its dev branch for a while.
Ref: 61a7354120Closes#21032
After limiting `find_package()`/`find_dependency()` calls to curl local
Find modules via the `MODULES` keyword, it became possible to detect
dependencies via CMake Configs from within those local Find modules, by
calling `find_package()` again with the `CONFIG` keyword. This patch
implements this. Then maps detection results to the result variables and
curl-specific imported targets the rest of the build expects.
Also honor recently introduced `*_USE_STATIC_LIBS` (experimental) flags
to map to the static target when requested.
This adds CMake Configs as an alternative to the existing `pkg-config`
and `find_path()`/`find_library()` auto-detection methods.
Enabled by default for MSVC, outside vcpkg and when not cross-building.
To enable for other cases, or override the default, you can use
`-DCURL_USE_CMAKECONFIG=ON` or `OFF`.
When enabled, Config detection happens after `pkg-config` and before
`find_path()`/`find_library()`. Using CMake's built-in options, you may
also manually point to the absolute directory holding Config files:
`Libssh2_DIR`, `MbedTLS_DIR`, `NGHTTP2_DIR`, `NGHTTP3_DIR`,
`NGTCP2_DIR` v1.19.0+ (with non-fork OpenSSL only), `Zstd_DIR` v1.4.5+
E.g. `-DMbedTLS_DIR=/path/to/mbedtls/lib/cmake/MbedTLS`
These dependencies typically need to be built with CMake to support
this.
Tagged as experimental.
Refs:
#20013#19156#19117https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20784#issuecomment-3984318492
Depends-on: fad1ebaecc#20840
Follow-up to 91e06fde1b#20784
Follow-up to 26c39d8df1#20015Closes#20814
- librtmp has no test cases, makes no proper releases and has not had a
single commit within the last year
- librtmp parses the URL itself and requires non-compliant URLs for this
- we have no RTMP tests
- RTMP was used by 2.2% of curl users (self-identified in the 2025
survey)
Closes#20673
Require CMake 3.18 (2020-07-15) or newer, up from 3.7 (2016-11-11)
prior to this patch.
This requirement also applies to the distributed `curl-config.cmake`.
To allow dropping compatibility code maintained for old versions, and to
use features which were unpractical in separate code paths. Also to make
testing, documentation and development easier, CI builds faster due to
CMake performance improvements over time. (e.g. integration tests on
macOS run 8x faster (10 minutes is now under 1.5m) in CI, 2.5x faster on
Windows.)
CMake offers pre-built binaries for major platforms. They work without
an install step, just by unpacking and pointing the cmake command to
them. Making upgrades easy in many cases:
https://cmake.org/download/https://cmake.org/files/https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases
CMake 3.18 brings these feature as generally available when building or
consuming curl/libcurl:
LTO support, improved performance, `pkg-config` and interface target
support, `OBJECT` target (for faster libcurl builds), modern invocation
with `-S`/`-B` options, better support for custom linker options,
FetchContent, `GnuTLS::GnuTLS` target, `--verbose` and `--install`
options, `CMAKE_GENERATOR` env, last but not least unity mode and Ninja
generator.
For maximum build speed, use:
`-DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=ON -DCURL_DROP_UNUSED=ON`
As for deprecations, C++11 is required to build CMake itself, which may
be a limit on some platforms. autotools continues to cover them.
Follow-up to 9bcdfb3809#20408
Follow-up to a7c974e038#19902
Follow-up to dfbe035c8b#10161
Discussion: https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/18704Closes#20407
By generalizing Homebrew prefix in shared code paths, where missing.
No strong reason, sometimes it's useful for tests.
Follow-up to e5316069f1#18818Closes#21019
ngtcp2 1.14.0 added module dependencies to `ngtcp2_crypto_*.pc` files.
This broke certain build cases in curl, because configure was is
querying pkg-config modules by setting `PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR` to the
directory specified via `--with-*=` options, including `--with-ngtcp2=`.
Setting `PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR` tells pkg-config (and pkgconf) to ignore
system locations. This caused that `ngtcp2_crypto_gnutls.pc` could no
longer find its indirect dependencies, if those were present at system
locations (where they typically are). Another fallout was BoringSSL,
because it does not provide `openssl.pc` on its own, and successful
detection relied on finding a non-BoringSSL copy, typically at a system
location (also fixed in ngtcp2 main branch).
Fix `ngtcp2_crypto_*` detections to not touch `PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR` and
instead prepend `<path>` set via `--with-ngtcp2=` to `PKG_CONFIG_PATH`.
This ensures to pick up any dependent modules from system locations.
Note the side-effect is that potentially undesired modules may be
detected this way from system locations, i.e. it makes this particular
detection less "hermetic" than the rest used in curl configure.
(Configurations using a bare `--with-ngtcp2` with no path were not
affected, and served as a workaround before this patch. It remains a
valid way of configuration after.)
Both `pkgconf` and `pkg-config` use this logic to calculate their search
directory list:
```pseudo
search = {}
if PKG_CONFIG_PATH is set
search += PKG_CONFIG_PATH
endif
if PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR is set (even if empty)
search += PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
else
search += built-in-pkg-config-dirs
endif
```
Refs:
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18028/commits (earlier attempt. Failed due to using `PKG_CONFIG_DIR` instead of the correct `PKG_CONFIG_PATH`)
c0874ce824https://man.archlinux.org/man/pkgconf.1.enhttps://manpages.debian.org/unstable/pkgconf/pkgconf.1.en.htmlhttps://manpages.debian.org/unstable/pkg-config/pkg-config.1.en.html10e27fd63c
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18022#issuecomment-3120587041
Bug: https://github.com/ngtcp2/ngtcp2/pull/1689#issuecomment-3120593664
Follow-up to 04d90b5deb#20931
Follow-up to 3c64ffaff4#18415#18188
Follow-up to 99500660af#18028#18022Closes#20920
Configure LibreSSL autotools job with `--with-ngtcp=<path>` instead of
adding ngtcp2 to `PKG_CONFIG_PATH`. To test this way of configuration in
CI and test for the regression reported in #20889.
Turns out this way of configuration isn't affected by the detection
issue in this particular case.
It also works for other backends except for these two, subject to
separate fixes:
- BoringSSL fix: https://github.com/ngtcp2/ngtcp2/pull/2070
- GnuTLS fix and BoringSSL workaround: #20920
Follow-up to 666db80196#20891
Follow-up to 8db0e286b3#18189
Follow-up to 99500660af#18028#18022Closes#20926
