The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 5.2-alpha1
release of HttpComponents Core.
This is the first ALPHA release in the 5.2 release series that upgrades
minimal JRE level to version 1.8 (8u251 is required) and includes
several protocol level and API improvements. It also includes all bug
fixes from the 5.1 branch.
Notable changes and features included in the 5.2 series:
* Upgrade to Java 1.8.
* Improved support for TLS upgrade and HTTP protocol upgrade (async).
* Improved customization of HTTP listeners (async).
* Improved parsing and formatting of URI components.
Download - <http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi>
Release notes -
<http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES-5.2.x.txt
HttpComponents site - <http://hc.apache.org/>
About HttpComponents Core
HttpCore is a set of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 transport components that can
be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a
minimal footprint
