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Updated release notes for 4.1-alpha1 release 

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Changes since 4.0
Release 4.1
-------------------
HttpClient 4.1 ALPHA1 builds on the stable 4.0 release and adds several
functionality improvements and new features.
* Simplified configuration of connection managers.
* Persistence of authentication data between request executions within
the same execution context.
* Support for SPNEGO/Kerberos authentication scheme
* Support for transparent content encoding. Please note transparent content
encoding is not enabled per default in order to avoid conflicts with
already existing custom content encoding solutions.
Please note all methods and classes added in this release and marked as
4.1 are API unstable and can change in the future 4.1 ALPHA releases.
Changelog
-------------------
* [HTTPCLIENT-889] 'expect: continue' handshake disabled per default.
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authentication data cache.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-885] URLEncodedUtils now correctly parses form-url-encoded
entities that specify a charset.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-883] SO_TIMEOUT is not reset on persistent (re-used) connections.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-882] Auth state is not correctly updated if a successful NTLM
authentication results in a redirect. This is a minor bug as HttpClient
manages to recover from the problem automatically.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-881] Fixed race condition in AbstractClientConnAdapter that makes
it possible for an aborted connection to be returned to the pool.
Contributed by Tim Boemker <tboemker at elynx.com> and
Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-832] Distinguish cookie format errors from violations of
restrictions imposed by a cookie specification. In the latter case
CookieRestrictionViolationException will be thrown.
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* [HTTPCLIENT-834] Transparent content encoding support.
Contributed by James Abley <james.abley at gmail.com>
Release 4.0.1
-------------------
This is a bug fix release that addresses a number of issues discovered since
the previous stable release. None of the fixed bugs is considered critical.
Most notably this release eliminates eliminates dependency on JCIP annotations.
Changelog
-------------------
* [HTTPCLIENT-885] URLEncodedUtils now correctly parses form-url-encoded
entities that specify a charset.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-883] SO_TIMEOUT is not reset on persistent (re-used) connections.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-882] Auth state is now correctly updated if a successful NTLM
authentication results in a redirect. This is a minor bug as HttpClient
manages to recover from the problem automatically.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-881] Fixed race condition in AbstractClientConnAdapter that makes
it possible for an aborted connection to be returned to the pool.
Contributed by Tim Boemker <tboemker at elynx.com> and
Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
* [HTTPCLIENT-866] Removed dependency on jcip-annotations.jar.
Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
and Sebastian Bazley <sebb at apache.org>
Release 4.0
-------------------