From 0b124640dd6dd318f28dd2a88e230cc0ac4a844d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Kalnichevski Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:25:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated HttpClient 4.4 release notes git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk@1653043 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- RELEASE_NOTES.txt | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt index 67aa9a213..571fe5ff5 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt @@ -1,6 +1,56 @@ -Release 4.4-BETA2 +Release 4.4 Final ------------------- +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 + + +* 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: +------------------- + +* Support for the latest HTTP state management specification (RFC 6265). + Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski + +* [HTTPCLIENT-1515] Caching of responses to HEAD requests + Contributed by Tyrone Cutajar and + Francois-Xavier Bonnet + +* [HTTPCLIENT-1560] Native Windows auth improvements + Contributed by Michael Osipov + * Update Apache Commons Logging version from 1.1.3 to 1.2. Contributed by Gary Gregory @@ -20,6 +70,9 @@ Release 4.4-BETA2 Contributed by Gary Gregory + + + Release 4.4 BETA1 -------------------