From 75e959dc59371fc32f8377a913635a0fd1826305 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Kalnichevski Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:43:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated HttpClient 4.3 release notes git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk@1518783 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- RELEASE_NOTES.txt | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt index 2ce38bff7..5fb871e84 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt @@ -1,5 +1,38 @@ +Release 4.3 Final +------------------- -Changes since release 4.3 BETA2 +This is the first stable (GA) release of HttpClient 4.3. The most notable enhancements included +in this release are: + +* Support for Java 7 try-with-resources for resource management (connection release.) + +* Added fluent Builder classes for HttpEntity, HttpRequest, HttpClient and SSLContext instances. + +* Deprecation of preference and configuration API based on HttpParams interface in favor of +constructor injection and plain configuration objects. + +* Reliance on object immutability instead of access synchronization for thread safety. +Several old classes whose instances can be shared by multiple request exchanges have +been replaced by immutable equivalents. + +* DefaultHttpClient, DecompressingHttpClient, CachingHttpClient and similar classes are +deprecated in favor of builder classes that produce immutable HttpClient instances. + +* HttpClient builders now dynamically construct a request execution pipeline tailored +specifically to the user configuration by physically excluding unnecessary protocol components. + +* There is now an option to construct a minimal HttpClient implementation that can only execute +basic HTTP message exchanges without redirects, authentication, state management or proxy support. +This feature might be of particular use in web crawler development. + +* There is now option to avoid strict URI syntax for request URIs by executing HTTP requests +with an explicitly specified target host. HttpClient will no longer attempt to parse the request +URI if it does not need to extract the target host from it. + +This release also includes all fixes from the stable 4.2.x release branch. + + +Changelog ------------------- * [HTTPCLIENT-1384] Expose CacheInvalidator interface. @@ -37,35 +70,17 @@ Release 4.3 BETA2 ------------------- This is the second BETA release of HttpClient 4.3. The most notable features and improvements -in the 4.3 branch are: - -* Support for Java 7 try-with-resources for resource management (connection release.) - -* Added fluent Builder classes for HttpEntity, HttpRequest, HttpClient and SSLContext instances. - -* Deprecation of preference and configuration API based on HttpParams interface in favor of -constructor injection and plain configuration objects. - -* Reliance on object immutability instead of access synchronization for thread safety. -Several old classes whose instances can be shared by multiple request exchanges have -been replaced by immutable equivalents. - -* DefaultHttpClient, DecompressingHttpClient, CachingHttpClient and similar classes are -deprecated in favor of builder classes that produce immutable HttpClient instances. - -* HttpClient builders now dynamically construct a request execution pipeline tailored -specifically to the user configuration by physically excluding unnecessary protocol components. - -* There is now an option to construct a minimal HttpClient implementation that can only execute -basic HTTP message exchanges without redirects, authentication, state management or proxy support. -This feature might be of particular use in web crawler development. - -* There is now option to avoid strict URI syntax for request URIs by executing HTTP requests -with an explicitly specified target host. HttpClient will no longer attempt to parse the request -URI if it does not need to extract the target host from it. +in the 4.3 branch are: Support for Java 7 try-with-resources for resource management (connection +release); fluent Builder classes for HttpEntity, HttpRequest and HttpClient instances, deprecation +of preference and configuration API based on HttpParams interface in favor of constructor injection +and plain configuration objects, reliance on object immutability instead of access synchronization +for thread safety. This release also includes all fixes from the stable 4.2.x release branch. +Changelog +------------------- + * [HTTPCLIENT-1366] org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils should parse the semicolon as a query parameter separator. Contributed by Gary Gregory