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Curl and libcurl 7.12.0.

 Public curl release number:               81
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 108
 Available command line options:           95
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     113
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    35

This release includes the following changes:

 o curl --proxy-digest is a new command line option
 o the Windows version of libcurl can use wldap32.dll for LDAP
 o curl_easy_strerror(), curl_multi_strerror() and curl_share_strerror()
 o IPv6-enabled Windows hosts now resolves names threaded/asynch as well
 o configure --with-libidn can be used to point out the root dir of a libidn
   installation for curl to use, then libcurl can resolve and use IDNA names
   (domain names with "international" letters)

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o general HTTP authentication improvements
 o HTTP Digest authentication with the proxy works
 o mulipart formposting with -F and file names with spaces work again
 o curl_easy_duphandle() now works when ares-enabled
 o HTTP Digest authentication works a lot more like the RFC says
 o curl works with telnet and stdin properly on Windows
 o configure --without-ssl works even when pkg-config has OpenSSL details
 o src/hugehelp.c builds correct again in non-configure build environments

Other curl-related news since the previous public release:

 o PycURL 7.11.2 was released: http://pycurl.sourceforge.net

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

 Gisle Vanem, Tommy Tam, Luca Altea, James Bursa, Mihai Ionescu

        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)