Exactly eighteen years ago today, on October 30 2006, we shipped curl 7.16.0 that among a whole slew of new features and set of bugfixes bumped the libcurl SONAME number from 3 to 4. ABI breakage This bump meant that libcurl 7.16.0 was not binary compatible with the previous releases. Users could not just easily and transparently bump up to this version from the previous, but they had to check their use of libcurl and in some cases adjust source code. This was not the first ABI breakage in the c...