diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 25aa7db5d6..feddf127ba 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "18">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "19">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "10">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2013">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "October 18th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "October 19th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
 <!ENTITY lfs-version  "development">          <!-- version|testing|unstable|development] -->
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ export -f as_root</userinput></screen>
 <!ENTITY wicd-major-version           "1.7">
 
 <!-- Chapter 17 -->
-<!ENTITY curl-version                 "7.32.0">
+<!ENTITY curl-version                 "7.33.0">
 <!ENTITY geoclue-version              "0.12.0">
 <!ENTITY glib-networking-version      "2.38.0">
 <!ENTITY ldns-version                 "1.6.16">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index bc584d62fa..470c9dc3b6 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,16 @@
     </listitem>
 
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>October 19th, 2013</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[igor] - Update to curl-7.33.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;4180">#4180</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>October 18th, 2013</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/networking/netlibs/curl.xml b/networking/netlibs/curl.xml
index 28c1db53e6..98a9c58cee 100644
--- a/networking/netlibs/curl.xml
+++ b/networking/netlibs/curl.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY curl-download-http "http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-&curl-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY curl-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY curl-md5sum        "30d04b0a8c43c6770039d1bf033dfe79">
-  <!ENTITY curl-size          "2.6 MB">
-  <!ENTITY curl-buildsize     "29 MB (additional 7 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY curl-md5sum        "57409d6bf0bd97053b8378dbe0cadcef">
+  <!ENTITY curl-size          "2.7 MB">
+  <!ENTITY curl-buildsize     "31 MB (additional 7 MB for tests)">
   <!ENTITY curl-time          "0.5 SBU (additional 2.9 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional">
       <ulink url="http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/">c-ares</ulink>,
-      <ulink url="http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/">krb4</ulink>,
       <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
       <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/libmetalink/">libmetalink</ulink>,
       <ulink url="http://www.libssh2.org">libssh2</ulink>,
@@ -115,8 +114,7 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr              \
             --disable-static           \
-            --enable-threaded-resolver \
-            --with-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs &amp;&amp;
+            --enable-threaded-resolver &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>
@@ -145,14 +143,6 @@ cp -v -R docs/*     /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version;</userinput></screen>
       <application>cURL</application>'s builtin threaded DNS resolver.
     </para>
 
-    <para>
-      <parameter>--with-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs</parameter>: This parameter
-      sets the directory to use as the path to the SSL certificates.
-      If you've not installed <xref linkend="openssl"/> or
-      <xref linkend="gnutls"/> and the <xref linkend="cacerts"/> you can
-      remove this option.
-    </para>
-
     <para>
       <option>--with-gssapi</option>: This parameter adds
       <application>Kerberos 5</application> support to