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Daniel Stenberg 115ea7633e
DEPRECATE: remove msh3 in six months 
The msh3 backed for QUIC and HTTP/3 was introduced in April 2022 but has
never been made to work properly. It has seen no visible traction or
developer activity from the msh3 main author (or anyone else seemingly
interested) in two years. As a non-functional backend, it only adds
friction and "weight" to the development and maintenance.

Meanwhile, we have a fully working backend in the ngtcp2 one and we have
two fully working backends in OpenSSL-QUIC and quiche well on their way
of ending their experimental status in a future.

We remove msh3 support from the curl source tree in July 2025.

Closes #15931
2025-01-08 23:57:36 +01:00

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Items to be removed from future curl releases

If any of these deprecated features is a cause for concern for you, please email the curl-library mailing list as soon as possible and explain to us why this is a problem for you and how your use case cannot be satisfied properly using a workaround.

TLS libraries without 1.3 support

curl drops support for TLS libraries without TLS 1.3 capability after May 2025.

It requires that a curl build using the library should be able to negotiate and use TLS 1.3, or else it is not good enough.

As of May 2024, the libraries that need to get fixed to remain supported after May 2025 are: BearSSL and Secure Transport.

msh3 support

The msh3 backed for QUIC and HTTP/3 was introduced in April 2022 but has never been made to work properly. It has seen no visible traction or developer activity from the msh3 main author (or anyone else seemingly interested) in two years. As a non-functional backend, it only adds friction and "weight" to the development and maintenance.

Meanwhile, we have a fully working backend in the ngtcp2 one and we have two fully working backends in OpenSSL-QUIC and quiche well on their way of ending their experimental status in a future.

We remove msh3 support from the curl source tree in July 2025.

Past removals

  • Pipelining
  • axTLS
  • PolarSSL
  • NPN
  • Support for systems without 64-bit data types
  • NSS
  • gskit
  • MinGW v1
  • NTLM_WB
  • space-separated NOPROXY patterns
  • hyper