* Moving from JSON.org to Jackson for request marshallers.
* The Java SDK now supports retry throttling to limit the rate of retries during periods of reduced availability. This throttling behavior can be enabled via ClientConfiguration or via the system property "-Dcom.amazonaws.sdk.enableThrottledRetry".
* Fixed String case conversion issues when running with non English locales.
* AWS SDK for Java introduces a new dynamic endpoint system that can compute endpoints for services in new regions.
* Introducing a new AWS region, ap-northeast-2.
* Added a new metric, HttpSocketReadTime, that records socket read latency. You can enable this metric by adding enableHttpSocketReadMetric to the system property com.amazonaws.sdk.enableDefaultMetrics. For more information, see [Enabling Metrics with the AWS SDK for Java](https://java.awsblog.com/post/Tx3C0RV4NRRBKTG/Enabling-Metrics-with-the-AWS-SDK-for-Java).
* New Client Execution timeout feature to set a limit spent across retries, backoffs, ummarshalling, etc. This new timeout can be specified at the client level or per request.
Also included in this release is the ability to specify the existing HTTP Request timeout per request rather than just per client.
* Added support for RequesterPays for all operations.
* Ignore the 'Connection' header when generating S3 responses.
* Allow users to generate an AmazonS3URI from a string without using URL encoding.
* Fixed issue that prevented creating buckets when using a client configured for the s3-external-1 endpoint.
* Amazon S3 bucket lifecycle configuration supports two new features: the removal of expired object delete markers and an action to abort incomplete multipart uploads.
* Allow TransferManagerConfiguration to accept integer values for multipart upload threshold.
* Copy the list of ETags before sorting https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/pull/589.
* Option to disable chunked encoding https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/pull/586.
* Adding retry on InternalErrors in CompleteMultipartUpload operation. https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/issues/538
* Deprecated two APIs : AmazonS3#changeObjectStorageClass and AmazonS3#setObjectRedirectLocation.
* Added support for the aws-exec-read canned ACL. Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. Amazon EC2 gets READ access to GET an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) bundle from Amazon S3.
* Added support for referencing security groups in peered Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). For more information see the service announcement at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/03/announcing-support-for-security-group-references-in-a-peered-vpc/ .
* Fixed a bug in AWS SDK for Java - Amazon EC2 module that returns NPE for dry run requests.
* Regenerated client with new implementation of code generator.
* This feature enables support for DNS resolution of public hostnames to private IP addresses when queried over ClassicLink. Additionally, you can now access private hosted zones associated with your VPC from a linked EC2-Classic instance. ClassicLink DNS support makes it easier for EC2-Classic instances to communicate with VPC resources using public DNS hostnames.
* You can now use Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway, a highly available AWS managed service that makes it easy to connect to the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Previously, you needed to launch a NAT instance to enable NAT for instances in a private subnet. Amazon VPC NAT Gateway is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions. To learn more about Amazon VPC NAT, see [New - Managed NAT (Network Address Translation) Gateway for AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-managed-nat-network-address-translation-gateway-for-aws/)
* A default read timeout is now applied when querying data from EC2 metadata service.
David Pilato