diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index d5e02a1f33..fcdda0389d 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -38,6 +38,16 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
     -->
+   <listitem>
+     <para>July 26th, 2023</para>
+     <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[renodr] - Update to curl-8.2.1 (Security Update). Fixes
+         <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18315">#18315</ulink>.</para>
+       </listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+
    <listitem>
      <para>July 25th, 2023</para>
      <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/networking/netlibs/curl.xml b/networking/netlibs/curl.xml
index b95942b6ac..313fc38e74 100644
--- a/networking/netlibs/curl.xml
+++ b/networking/netlibs/curl.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY curl-download-http "https://curl.se/download/curl-&curl-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY curl-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY curl-md5sum        "1f7f6678b1342ad78f30e1dedd015fe2">
+  <!ENTITY curl-md5sum        "556576a795bdd2c7d10de6886480065f">
   <!ENTITY curl-size          "2.5 MB">
-  <!ENTITY curl-buildsize     "39 MB (add 19 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY curl-time          "0.1 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 16 SBU for tests (without valgrind, add 35 SBU with valgrind)">
+  <!ENTITY curl-buildsize     "42 MB (add 23 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY curl-time          "0.1 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 15 SBU for tests (without valgrind, add 36 SBU with valgrind)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="curl" xreflabel="cURL-&curl-version;">
@@ -369,6 +369,11 @@ Note that if I move /usr/bin/valgrind to a place where it can't be found, I get
 TESTDONE: 1593 tests were considered during 595 seconds.
 TESTDONE: 1356 tests out of 1356 reported OK: 100%
 It appears that every test is now run under valgrind.
+
+[renodr] - Test results for 8.2.1 (2023-07-26)
+TESTDONE: 1611 tests were considered during 2129 seconds.
+TESTDONE: 1369 tests out of 1369 reported OK: 100%
+All BLFS dependencies installed, and run under valgrind.
 -->
 
     <para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 39e19bd76c..aa1a11064a 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 
 <!-- Chapter 17 -->
 <!ENTITY c-ares-version               "1.19.1">
-<!ENTITY curl-version                 "8.1.2">
+<!ENTITY curl-version                 "8.2.1">
 <!ENTITY geoclue2-version             "2.7.0">
 <!ENTITY glib-networking-minor        "2.76">
 <!ENTITY glib-networking-version      "&glib-networking-minor;.1">