curl and libcurl 8.1.2

 Public curl releases:         219
 Command line options:         251
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   302
 Public functions in libcurl:  91
 Contributors:                 2888

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o configure: quote the assignments for run-compiler [1]
 o configure: without pkg-config and no custom path, use -lnghttp2 [8]
 o curl: cache the --trace-time value for a second [9]
 o http2: fix EOF handling on uploads with auth negotiation [7]
 o http3: send EOF indicator early as possible [11]
 o lib1560: verify more scheme guessing [5]
 o lib: remove unused functions, make single-use static [3]
 o libcurl.m4: remove trailing 'dnl' that causes this to break autoconf [10]
 o libssh: when keyboard-interactive auth fails, try password [4]
 o misc: fix spelling mistakes [2]
 o page-header: mention curl version and how to figure out current release [13]
 o page-header: minor wording polish in the URL segment [12]
 o scripts/singleuse.pl: add more API calls
 o urlapi: remove superfluous host name check [6]

This release includes the following known bugs:

 o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (https://curl.se/docs/knownbugs.html)

Planned upcoming removals include:

 o gskit
 o NSS
 o support for space-separated NOPROXY patterns
 o support for the original legacy mingw version 1

 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:

  Aleksander Mazur, Christian Hesse, correctmost on github, Dan Fandrich,
  Daniel Stenberg, Emanuele Torre, Gisle Vanem, Kev Jackson,
  musvaage on github, Sergey Fionov, Stefan Eissing, Viktor Szakats, 左潇峰
  (13 contributors)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11179
 [2] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11171
 [3] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11174
 [4] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11196
 [5] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11219
 [6] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11195
 [7] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11194
 [8] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11186
 [9] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11211
 [10] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11212
 [11] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11205
 [12] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11217
 [13] = https://curl.se/bug/?i=11216