cURL 7.50.3 is released with bug fixes and new features. Here’s how to install cURL on Ubuntu 16.04 and other Linux Ubuntu Derivatives. curl is the command line tool and library that is used for transferring data with URL syntax. curl is installed when you install the operating system. Brocade recommends that you install curl before running the controller installation script only for an offline installation.
cURL 7.50.3
- CVE-2016-7167: escape and unescape integer overflows
- mk-ca-bundle.pl: use SHA256 instead of SHA1
- checksrc: detect strtok() use
- errors: new alias CURLE_WEIRD_SERVER_REPLY
- http2: support > 64bit sized uploads
- openssl: fix bad memory free (regression)
- CMake: hide private library symbols
- http: refuse to pass on response body when NO_NODY is set
- cmake: fix curl-config –static-libs
- mbedtls: switch off NTLM in build if md4 isn’t available
- curl: –create-dirs on windows groks both forward and backward slashes
Install cURL 7.50.3 on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install curl 7.50.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives:
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.50.3.tar.gz
tar -xvf curl-7.50.3.tar.gz
cd curl-7.50.3/
./configure
make
sudo make install
Once installed, verify curl using the command given belo:
curl --version