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 managen: correct the warning for un-escaped '<' and '>' [1]
 o strparse: switch the API to work on 'const char *' [2]
 o lib: better optimized casecompare() and ncasecompare() [3]

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:

  Daniel Stenberg, Sergey
  (2 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