upgrading cURL version

[tweedyjm]

Before I run an upgrade on curl, I wanted to poke in and ask if any admins had issue?
Doing my due diligence before testing then breaking.

Nagios XI Installed Version: 5.5.9

[mbellerue]

cURL is such a mature project at this point, I can't imagine that an update would break existing functionality. But it wouldn't be a bad idea to upgrade it in a test environment first, just to be on the safe side. But at this point there aren't any known problems with upgrading cURL.

[tweedyjm]

cURL is such a mature project at this point, I can't imagine that an update would break existing functionality. But it wouldn't be a bad idea to upgrade it in a test environment first, just to be on the safe side. But at this point there aren't any known problems with upgrading cURL.

Cool. My colleague and I discussed as such, but 'no need to brick someone's playstation trying to upgrade' etc. etc. Thanks releasing on a test-instance first.

[benjaminsmith]

Hi @tweedyjm,

Which version of curl are your trying to upgrade to? Also, just wondering, why are you wanting to upgrade curl on the XI server?

We develop and test for the base packages provided by the operating system, and my CentOS 7 is running 7.29.0, and Ubuntu 18 is running 7.58.0.

Thanks.

[tweedyjm]

Hi @tweedyjm,

Which version of curl are your trying to upgrade to? Also, just wondering, why are you wanting to upgrade curl on the XI server?

We develop and test for the base packages provided by the operating system, and my CentOS 7 is running 7.29.0, and Ubuntu 18 is running 7.58.0.

Thanks.

Installed Packages
Name : curl
Arch : x86_64
Version : 7.65.3
Release : 3.0.cf.rhel7
Size : 682 k
Repo : installed

A SysAdmin is managing some proxies; he's trying to improve the health checking Nagios does on the proxies, but needs cURL to support a switch that wasn't added until 7.52. His script works on his machine, but wants to be sure it works on our nagios too.

[ssax]

Yeah, it's safe, and recommended depending on how old of a version and what it supports:

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[root@ls1 panels]# curl -V
curl 7.29.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.29.0 NSS/3.34 zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.28 libssh2/1.4.3
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz unix-sockets