curl and libcurl 8.12.2

 Public curl releases:         266
 Command line options:         267
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   306
 Public functions in libcurl:  96
 Contributors:                 3344

This release includes the following changes:


This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o addrinfo: add curl macro to avoid redefining foreign symbols [29]
 o asyn-thread: avoid the separate 'struct resdata' alloc [20]
 o asyn-thread: avoid the separate curl_mutex_t alloc [6]
 o asyn-thread: do not allocate thread_data separately [21]
 o build: set `HAVE_WRITABLE_ARGV` for Apple cross-builds [8]
 o cmake: drop `HAVE_IN_ADDR_T` from pre-fill too
 o cmake: drop two stray TLS feature checks for wolfSSL [9]
 o cmake: fix `HAVE_ATOMIC`/`HAVE_STDATOMIC` pre-fill for clang-cl [28]
 o cmake: mention 'insecure' in the debug build warning [15]
 o cookie: simplify invalid_octets() [24]
 o docs: add FD_ZERO to curl_multi_fdset example [19]
 o docs: correct argument names & URL redirection [4]
 o HTTP3.md: only speak about minimal versions [18]
 o http: fix NTLM info message typo [22]
 o lib: better optimized casecompare() and ncasecompare() [3]
 o lib: strtoofft.h header cleanup [17]
 o lib: use Curl_str_number() for parsing decimal numbers [13]
 o managen: correct the warning for un-escaped '<' and '>' [1]
 o strparse: make Curl_str_number() return error for no digits [14]
 o strparse: switch the API to work on 'const char *' [2]
 o strparse: switch to curl_off_t as base data type [7]
 o tests: fix enum/int confusion (Intel C), fix autotools `CFLAGS` for `servers` [27]
 o tidy-up: delete, comment or scope C macros reported unused [16]
 o tidy-up: drop unused `CURL_INADDR_NONE` macro and `in_addr_t` type [26]
 o timediff: fix comment for curlx_mstotv() [25]
 o urlapi: simplify junkscan [23]
 o wolfssh: retrieve the error using wolfSSH_get_error [5]
 o wolfssl: when using PQ KEM, use ML-KEM, not Kyber [10]

This release includes the following known bugs:

 See https://curl.se/docs/knownbugs.html

For all changes ever done in curl:

 See https://curl.se/changes.html

Planned upcoming removals include:

 o Support for the msh3 HTTP/3 backend
 o The winbuild build system
 o TLS libraries not supporting TLS 1.3

 See https://curl.se/dev/deprecate.html

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:

  Anthony Hu, Daniel Stenberg, Harry Sintonen, Joseph Chen, kriztalz, Sergey,
  Stefan Eissing, Viktor Szakats
  (8 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16315
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16316
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16311
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16334
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16335
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16323
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16336
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16338
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16339
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16337
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16319
 [14] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16319
 [15] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16327
 [16] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16279
 [17] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16331
 [18] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16320
 [19] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16325
 [20] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16321
 [21] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16241
 [22] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16305
 [23] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16307
 [24] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16306
 [25] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16310
 [26] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16318
 [27] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16314
 [28] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16313
 [29] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16274