Also fix fallouts found.
Windows clang-tidy CI job is a little pickier than I'd prefer due to the
`_CURL_TESTS_CONCAT=ON` option used there, and all macros considered
local, thus checked by the compiler. Upside: it revealed macro usage
dynamics in tests. If too annoying, `first.h` may be opted-out from the
concat logic. Some macros may also be deleted instead of `#if 0`-ing.
Follow-up to e0e56e9ae4#21550
Follow-up to 5fa5cb3825#20593Closes#21554
Fixing this with zizmor v1.25.0:
```
error[unpinned-images]: unpinned image references
--> .github/workflows/linux-old.yml:59:5
59 | container: 'debian:stretch'
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ container image is not pinned to a SHA256 hash
= help: audit documentation -> https://docs.zizmor.sh/audits/#unpinned-images
[...]
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/25890035949/job/76090925291?pr=21618
Sadly there is no automatic mechanism to bump them..
Also:
- replace `debian-stretch` with its slim variant.
- bump one of the two Alpine jobs from 3.20 to 3.23.4.
Closes#21619
Fixing:
```
==> Installing openssl@3 dependency: ca-certificates
==> Pouring ca-certificates--2026-05-14.all.bottle.tar.gz
Error: undefined method '[]' for nil
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/bottles.rb:127:in 'Utils::Bottles.load_tab'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:1507:in 'FormulaInstaller#pour'
[...]
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:114:in '<main>'
You have disabled automatic updates and have not updated today.
Do not report this issue until you've run `brew update` and tried again.
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/25859030402/job/75984082148?pr=21607
Dropping `HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` was not enough to fix it.
Closes#21608
- disable DES with nettle 4. It no longer supports it.
```
lib/curl_ntlm_core.c:67:12: fatal error: 'nettle/des.h' file not found
67 | # include <nettle/des.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
```
- fix MD4 support with nettle 4.
```
lib/md4.c:178:36: error: too many arguments to function call, expected 2, have 3
178 | md4_digest(ctx, MD4_DIGEST_SIZE, digest);
| ~~~~~~~~~~ ^~~~~~
```
- fix unused argument compiler warning:
```
lib/vtls/gtls.c:2267:39: error: unused parameter 'sha256len' [clang-diagnostic-unused-parameter,-warnings-as-errors]
2267 | size_t sha256len)
| ^
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/25710321195/job/75488970143?pr=21557
- GHA/macos: stop enabling NTLM in the GnuTLS job.
It no longer builds due to missing DES support in nettle 4.
```
lib/curl_ntlm_core.c:90:4: error: "cannot compile NTLM support without a crypto library with DES."
90 | # error "cannot compile NTLM support without a crypto library with DES."
| ^
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/25710321195/job/75488970170?pr=21557
Follow-up to cfadbaa133#21169Closes#21557
No production code function is allowed to be longer than 500 lines.
The lib/setopt.c:setopt_cptr function is currently exempt, as a single
exception until we make it smaller.
Closes#21492
- update action `actions/cache` from 5.0.4 to 5.0.5
- update action `actions/upload-artifact` from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1
- update action `github/codeql-action` from 4.32.4 to 4.35.2
- update action `msys2/setup-msys2` from 2.31.0 to 2.31.1
- update pip `filelock` from 3.25.2 to 3.29.0
- update pip `impacket` to 0.13.0
- update pip `ruff` from 0.15.10 to 0.15.12
Closes#21483Closes#21482
- sha256: fix backend priority in comment.
- URLs: link to IETF URLs to the HTML document, to match others.
- VERSIONS.md: use unified date format for recent entries too.
Ref: ce5d32032f
- GHA/labeler.yml: alpha-sort file masks in a label block.
- tests/server/mqttd: fix call arg list in a disabled function.
- tests/server/mqttd: fix comment.
Closes#21473
```
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
[...]
E: Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting assignments:
1. musl-dev:amd64=1.2.5-3+b1 is selected for install
2. musl-dev:amd64 is not selected for install because:
1. musl-dev:riscv64=1.2.5-3 is selected for install
2. musl-dev:amd64 Breaks musl-dev:riscv64 (!= 1.2.5-3+b1)
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/25168601672/job/73785600341#step:3:154Closes#21475
- prefer `--branch` over `-b`, where missing.
- add `--depth 1` where missing.
- sync option order between docs and GHA.
- bump quiche and rustls-ffi versions in documentation.
- ECH.md: update for OpenSSL 4.
Closes#21447
Necessary when the libssh2/libssh client library does not support KEX
algos offered by default by the OpenSSH server. E.g. libssh2 with WinCNG
combined with OpenSSH 10+.
Also: use this option in GHA/windows.
Follow-up to 3b8bb1a86a#21219
Follow-up to c98d0a2e9a#21220Closes#21438
Due to year-long unreliability.
The default Ubuntu mirror works as fast as the Azure one when it's
working at its normal speed. And has HTTPS.
Also:
- replac the retry hack that turn out to not solve the problem.
- add timeouts to each download step to catch slowness early.
Follow-up to a5838847c4#21181
Follow-up to 5172ba5475#21107Closes#21414
GitHub runners are getting new 3rd-party sources frequntly now, last
week `docker.list`, this week: `google-chrome.sources`. To avoid
playing catch up, allowlist the only one we use: `ubuntu.sources`. If
this is renamed, CI would break. Let's hope this happens much less
often than new sources.
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/21414#issuecomment-4297788640
Follow-up to 3e0e2cc1ab#21344Closes#21416
`ssh-keygen -t ed25519` does not support PEM key format, and it
defaults to `RFC4716` which is what we want.
It affected GHA/windows tests that explicitly used ed25519 keys.
Also:
- GHA/windows: bump minimums to hopefully catch this early next time.
1701a8319e#21353
- merge two Perl lines.
Reported-by: herbenderbler on github
Fixes#21360
Follow-up to acda4eae5e#21223Closes#21374
Seen on `ubuntu-slim` runners.
Also:
- extend to two jobs to `ls -l` package sources on both ubuntu-latest,
ubuntu-24.04-arm, and ubuntu-slim.
- drop former stray apt source `ondrej-ubuntu-php-noble.sources`.
It's no longer present on the image.
Closes#21344
- rename version env to stay compatible with Renovate `matchStrings`.
- also switch to manual bumps.
Bump rule was wrong, and deemed not worthy the complexity to fix.
Closes#21319
- examples: sync debug output printf masks.
- INSTALL-CMAKE.md: tidy up section for some options.
- curl_sha512_256: delete comment suggesting an optimization.
- vtls/keylog: scope a variable.
- vtls/openssl: make a source code URL a permalink.
- vtls/schannel: drop redundant parentheses.
- test1119.pl: robustify `$1` -> `$s`.
- sync arg names in comments to match the code.
- tidy up and minor fixes to comments.
- fix formatting/indenting/comment/newline/include nits.
- move `UNITTEST` protos next to definitions, sync their argument names.
- make variables static.
- add parentheses to Perl `open()` calls.
- drop unnecessary double quotes in Perl.
- clang-format.
Closes#21000
