cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed

Hyper had been a Rust-based HTTP back-end for cURL to provide memory safety guarantees while the rest of cURL remains in C code. While Hyper was initially written as sponsored work, there was little end-user and developer interest over the years for this experimental back-end. As such cURL lead developer Daniel Stenberg decided it best to just drop this back-end.
With today's cURL 8.12 release that Hyper code is stripped away. Plus cURL 8.12 has other improvements like OpenSSL support to use keys and certificates from PKCS#11 provider, ssls-export for SSL session import/export, build system updates, and many bug fixes.
Downloads and more details on today's cURL 8.12 release for this excellent utility and library for network transfers via curl.se.
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