# curl Maintainers Report on a Month-Long Pause in Vulnerability Reporting

DevFeed: [curl Maintainers Report on a Month-Long Pause in Vulnerability Reporting](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-the-bliss-taught-us-18901.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/08/03/what-the-bliss-taught-us/>)

Author: Daniel Stenberg

Published: 2026-08-03T06:42:19Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Daniel Stenberg](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/daniel-stenberg.md>)

Topics: [cURL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/curl.md>), [Maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainers.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>)

Tags: [curl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/curl.md>), [curl-and-libcurl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/curl-and-libcurl.md>), [maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintainers.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [vulnerability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerability.md>)

## AI overview

curl maintainers describe the results of pausing vulnerability reporting for the month of July 2026. They report receiving no actionable vulnerability reports during the pause, feeling relief, and using the time to review pull requests, improve documentation, and recharge.

## Source excerpt

At this exact moment curl's summer of bliss 2026 ends. We (the maintainers of curl) took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting and in this post I will try to explain how this went. (If you feel like skipping the wordy blab below, the single word answer is: fine) This was possibly ... Continue reading What the bliss taught us ->