contributor re-count (we'll break the 600 limit very very soon now) and I made all the numericals at the top phrased "shorter" and I cut out the "number of releases since the very beginning" since that's just the number curl releases + 26 and not a very interesting number anyway. 
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 7d74e87..40ae749 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES 
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@  Curl and libcurl 7.17.2   - Public curl release number: 103 - Releases counted from the very beginning: 129 - Available command line options: 121 - Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 147 - Number of public functions in libcurl: 55 - Amount of public web site mirrors: 43 - Number of known libcurl bindings: 36 - Number of contributors: 588 + Public curl releases: 103 + Command line options: 121 + curl_easy_setopt() options: 147 + Public functions in libcurl: 55 + Public web site mirrors: 43 + Known libcurl bindings: 36 + Contributors: 597    This release includes the following changes: