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Updated HttpClient 4.4 release notes 

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Release 4.4-BETA2
Release 4.4 Final
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This is the first stable (GA) release of HttpClient 4.4. Notable features and enhancements included
in 4.4 series are:
* Support for the latest HTTP state management specification (RFC 6265). Please note that the old
cookie policy is still used by default for compatibility reasons. RFC 6265 compliant cookie
policies need to be explicitly configured by the user. Please also note that as of next feature
release support for Netscape draft, RFC 2109 and RFC 2965 cookie policies will be deprecated
and disabled by default. It is recommended to use RFC 6265 compliant policies for new applications
unless compatibility with RFC 2109 and RFC 2965 is required and to migrate existing applications
to the default cookie policy.
* Enhanced redesigned and rewritten default SSL hostname verifier with improved RFC 2818
compliance
* Default SSL hostname verifier and default cookie policy now validate certificate identity
and cookie domain of origin against the public suffix list maintained by Mozilla.org
<https://publicsuffix.org/list>
* More efficient stale connection checking: indiscriminate connection checking which results
in approximately 20 to 50 ms overhead per request has been deprecated in favor of conditional
connection state validation (persistent connections are to be re-validated only if a specified
period inactivity has elapsed)
* Authentication cache thread-safety: authentication caches used by HttpClient is now thread-safe
and can be shared by multiple threads in order to re-use authentication state for subsequent
requests
* Native windows Negotiate/NTLM via JNA: when running on Windows OS HttpClient configured to use
native NTLM or SPNEGO authentication schemes can make use of platform specific functionality
via JNA and current user system credentials. This functionality is still considered experimental
and is known to have compatibility issues. Use at your discretion.
This release also includes all fixes from the stable 4.3.x release branch.
Please note that as of 4.4 HttpClient requires Java 1.6 or newer.
Changelog:
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* Support for the latest HTTP state management specification (RFC 6265).
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-1515] Caching of responses to HEAD requests
Contributed by Tyrone Cutajar <tj.cutajar at gmail.com> and
Francois-Xavier Bonnet <fx at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-1560] Native Windows auth improvements
Contributed by Michael Osipov <michaelo at apache.org>
* Update Apache Commons Logging version from 1.1.3 to 1.2.
Contributed by Gary Gregory <ggregory at apache.org>
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Contributed by Gary Gregory <ggregory at apache.org>
Release 4.4 BETA1
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