External Libraries: Update the Requests library to version 1.8.1.

This is a minor update, with the most important change being that the version constant in the `Requests` class is now correct.

Release notes: https://github.com/WordPress/Requests/releases/tag/v1.8.1

For a full list of changes in this update, see the Requests GitHub:
https://github.com/WordPress/Requests/compare/v1.8.0...v1.8.1

Follow-up to [50842].

Props kapilpaul, jrf, schlessera, mbabker.
Fixes #53334.
Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@51078


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@50687 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd

wp-includes/class-requests.php

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ class Requests {
 	 *
 	 * @var string
 	 */
-	const VERSION = '1.7';
+	const VERSION = '1.8.1';
 
 	/**
 	 * Registered transport classes

wp-includes/version.php

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '5.8-alpha-51077';
+$wp_version = '5.8-alpha-51078';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.