curl and libcurl 8.12.1

 Public curl releases:         264
 Command line options:         267
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   306
 Public functions in libcurl:  96
 Contributors:                 3336

This release includes the following changes:


This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o content_encoding: #error on too old zlib [2]
 o libssh2: raise lowest supported version to 1.2.8 [3]
 o docs: better explain multi-part byte range behavior [4]
 o SPONSORS.md: clarify that we don't promise goods or services [5]
 o libssh: silence `-Wconversion` with a cast (Windows 32-bit) [7]
 o lib: include necessary headers for `inet_ntop`/`inet_pton` [8]
 o smb: silence `-Warray-bounds` with gcc 13+ [9]
 o asyn-thread: fix HTTPS RR crash [10]

This release includes the following known bugs:

 See docs/KNOWN_BUGS (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 TLS libraries not supporting TLS 1.3
 o The winbuild build system

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

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

  CueXXIII on Github, Dan Fandrich, Daniel Stenberg, Fay Stegerman, qhill,
  Ralf A. Timmermann, Ray Satiro, Viktor Szakats
  (8 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16202
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16199
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16139
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16196
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16195
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16194
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16184
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16187
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=16169