The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 5.5-beta3 release of HttpComponents Core.
This BETA release migrates JSON bindings to Jackson 3, introduces support for Structured Field Values (RFC 9651), and improves and optimizes message parsing support methods. It is expected to be the last BETA release before 5.5 GA. This release includes all fixes from the stable 5.4 branch. Notable changes and features included in the 5.5 series: * Improved connection pool implementation. * Added HTTP message stream APIs and support for HTTP/2 message stream timeouts. * Updated SSLContexts to respect system properties by default. * Limited pending HTTP/2 request commands per connection. * Improved conformance with RFC 7540, HPACK (RFC 7541), and HTTP/2 (RFC 9113). * Building HttpCore with Maven now requires Java 17 or newer. Published artifacts remain compatible with Java 8. * Added support for the QUERY method (RFC 10008). * Added support for Structured Field Values for HTTP (RFC 9651). Compatibility notes: * HTTP requesters and servers respect SSL/TLS system properties by default. * Building HttpCore with Maven now requires Java 17 or newer. Published artifacts remain compatible with Java 8. Download - <http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi> Release notes - <http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES-5.5.x.txt HttpComponents site - <http://hc.apache.org/> About HttpComponents Core HttpCore is a set of low level HTTP transport components that can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint. HttpCore supports two I/O models: a blocking I/O model based on the classic Java I/O and a non-blocking, event driven I/O model based on Java NIO
