<commit_before>Release 4.1 ALPHA2
-------------------

HttpClient 4.1 ALPHA2 fixes a number of non-severe bugs discovered since 
the last release and introduces support for two frequently requested features:

* a mechanism to bypass the standard certificate trust verification 
(useful when dealing with self-signed certificates)

* HTTP/1.1 response caching.

Compatibility notes
-------------------
(1) Please note the HTTP caching module is still considered experimental and 
its API may change significantly in the future releases.

(2) This release eliminates Mime4J as a dependency for the HttpMime module. 
HttpMime is no longer binary compatible with the previous releases. 
Full API and binary compatibility between minor versions of HttpMime will be
maintained as of 4.1 GA release.

Changelog
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-936] Fixed bug causing NPE or an infinite loop in 
  the authentication code in case of a SPNEGO authentication failure. 
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-427] HTTP caching support
  Contributed by <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>

* Dropped dependency on Mime4j for HttpMime.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Extended SSLSocketFactory with a mechanism to bypass the standard certificate
  trust verification (primarily to simplify dealing with self-signed
  certificates)
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-916] UsernamePasswordCredentials, NTUserPrincipal,
  BasicClientCookie, BasicClientCookie2 and BasicCookieStore made Serializable.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-914] Upgraded Commons Codec dependency to version 1.4
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-903] Use ConcurrentHashMap instead of [Linked]HashMap for
  thread-safety. Improve performance of AuthSchemeRegistry, CookieSpecRegistry
  and SchemeRegistry classes.
  Contributed by <NAME> <sebb at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-902] HttpRequestRetryHandler not called on I/O exceptions
  thrown when opening a new connection.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olamy at apache.org> and
  <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

Release 4.1 ALPHA1
-------------------

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.

* 5 to 10% performance increase due to elimination of unnecessary Log object
  lookups by short-lived components.

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.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-862] Extended client's redirect handling interface to allow
  control of the content of the redirect.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-872] HttpClient can now persist authentication data between request
  executions as long as they share the same execution context. It has also become
  much easier to make HttpClient authenticate preemptively by pre-populating
  authentication data cache.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-883] SO_TIMEOUT is not reset on persistent (re-used) connections.
  Contributed by <NAME> <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.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-523] Support for SPNEGO authentication scheme.
  Contributed by <NAME> <mavricknzwork at yahoo.com>

* Simplified configuration of connection managers. Total connection maximum
  and maximum connection per route limits can be set using methods of
  the class instead of HTTP parameters.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Added parameters to define the order of preference for supported auth
  schemes for target host and proxy authentication.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-875] DefaultClientConnectionOperator#openConnection doesn't
  update the connection state if the connection socket changed after
  the call to SocketFactory#connectSocket().
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-834] Transparent content encoding support.
  Contributed by <NAME> <james.abley at g<EMAIL>>

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.

This release is also expected to improve performance by 5 to 10% due to
elimination of unnecessary Log object lookups by short-lived components.

Changelog
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-895] Eliminated Log lookups in short lived objects impairing
  performance.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-885] URLEncodedUtils now correctly parses form-url-encoded
  entities that specify a charset.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-884] UrlEncodedFormEntity now sets charset on the Content-Type
  header.
  Contributed by <NAME> <jmjacobs at cs.stanford.edu>

* [HTTPCLIENT-883] SO_TIMEOUT is not reset on persistent (re-used) connections.
  Contributed by <NAME> <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 <NAME> <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 <NAME> <tboemker at elynx.com> and
  <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-866] Removed dependency on jcip-annotations.jar.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>
  and <NAME> <sebb at apache.org>


Release 4.0
-------------------

HttpClient 4.0 represents a complete, ground-up redesign and almost a complete
rewrite of the HttpClient 3.x codeline. This release finally addresses several
design flaws that existed since the 1.0 release and could not be fixed without
a major code overhaul and breaking API compatibility.


Architectural changes
---------------------

* Redesign of the HttpClient internals addressing all known major
  architectural shortcomings of the 3.x codeline.

* Cleaner, more flexible and expressive API.

* More modular structure.

* Better performance and smaller memory footprint due to a more efficient HTTP
  transport based on HttpCore.

* Implementation of cross-cutting HTTP protocol aspects through protocol
  interceptors.

* Improved connection management, better handling of persistent connections,
  support for stateful connections

* Pluggable redirect and authentication handlers.

* Improved support for sending requests via a proxy or a chain of proxies

* More flexible SSL context customization

* Reduced intermediate garbage in the process of generating HTTP requests
  and parsing HTTP responses


Important notes
-------------------

* Future releases of HttpMime module may be binary incompatible with this
  release due to possible API changes in Apache Mime4J. Apache Mime4J is
  still being actively developed and its API is considered unstable.

* HttpClient 4.0 is not fully binary compatible with 4.0 BETA1 release.
  Some protected variables in connection management class have been
  made final in order to help ensure their thread safety:

    org.apache.http.conn.BasicEofSensorWatcher#attemptReuse
    org.apache.http.conn.BasicEofSensorWatcher#managedConn
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator#schemeRegistry
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpRoutePlanner#schemeRegistry
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.ProxySelectorRoutePlanner#schemeRegistry
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager#alwaysShutDown
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager#connOperator
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager#schemeRegistry
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager#connOperator
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager#schemeRegistry


Bug fixes since 4.0 BETA2 release
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-861] URIUtils#resolve is now compatible with all examples given
  in RFC 3986.
  Contributed by <NAME> <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de>

* [HTTPCLIENT-860] HttpClient no longer converts redirects of PUT/POST to GET
  for status codes 301, 302, 307, as required by the HTTP spec.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-859] CookieIdentityComparator now takes path attribute into
  consideration when comparing cookies.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* HttpClient will no longer send expired cookies back to the origin server.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-856] Proxy NTLM authentication no longer fails on a redirect to
  a different host.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-841] Removed automatic connection release using garbage collection
  due to a memory leak.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-853] Fixed bug causing invalid cookie origin port to be selected
  when the target is accessed on the default port and the connection is
  established via a proxy.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-852] Fixed bug causing automatically retried redirects fail with
  CircularRedirectException.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Fixed problem with the default HTTP response parser failing to handle garbage
  preceding a valid HTTP response.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* NonRepeatableRequestExceptions now include the cause that the original
  request failed.
  Contributed by <NAME> <sberlin at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-837] Fixed problem with the wire log skipping zero byte values
  if read one byte at a time.
  Contributed by <NAME> <ksafonov at swiftteams.com>

* [HTTPCLIENT-823] 'http.conn-manager.max-total' parameter can be adjusted
  dynamically. However, the size of existing connection pools per route,
  once allocated, will not be adjusted.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-822] Default socket factories to rethrow SocketTimeoutException
  as ConnectTimeoutException in case of connect failure due to a time out.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-813] Fixed default port resolution. Invalid ports no longer
  get replaced with the default port value.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

Release 4.0 beta 2
-------------------

BETA2 is a maintenance release, which addresses a number of issues
discovered since the previous release.

The only significant new feature is an addition of an OSGi compliant
bundle combining HttpClient and HttpMime jars.

All upstream projects are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

* Fixed NPE in DefaultRequestDirector thrown when retrying a failed
  request over a proxied connection.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-803] Fixed bug in SSL host verifier implementations
  causing the SSL certificate to be rejected as invalid if the connection
  is established using an IP address.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-806] DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler will no longer retry
  on ConnectExceptions.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* DigestScheme can use an arbitrary digest algorithm requested by the
  target server (such as SHA) as long as this algorithm is supported by
  the Java runtime.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Fixed parsing and validation of RFC2109 compliant Set-Cookie headers
  by the Best-Match cookie spec.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Fixed bug that can cause a managed connection to be returned from the
  pool in an inconsistent state.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>


4.0 Beta 1
-------------------

BETA1 release brings yet another round of API enhancements and
improvements in the area of connection management. Among the most notable
ones is the capability to handle stateful connections such as persistent
NTLM connections and private key authenticated SSL connections.

This is the first API stable release of HttpClient 4.0. All further
releases in the 4.0 code line will maintain API compatibility with this
release.

There has been a number of important bug fixes since ALPHA4. All upstream
projects are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release.

Please note HttpClient currently provides only limited support for NTLM
authentication. For details please see NTLM_SUPPORT.txt.

-------------------

Changelog:
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-790] Protocol interceptors are now correctly invoked when
  executing CONNECT methods.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-668] Do not use static loggers.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-781] Respect Keep-Alive header's timeout value.
  Contributed by <NAME> <sberlin at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-779] Top-level classes (HttpClient, and HttpGet, HttpPut
  and similar HttpMethods) throw fewer checked exceptions.
  Contributed by <NAME> <sberlin at apache.org>

* HttpClient will throw an exception if an attempt is made to retry
  a request with a non-repeatable request entity.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Fixed request re-generation logic when retrying a failed request.
  Auto-generated headers will no accumulate.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-424] Preemptive authentication no longer limited to BASIC
  scheme only. HttpClient can be customized to authenticate preemptively
  with DIGEST scheme.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-670] Pluggable hostname resolver.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-719] Clone support for HTTP request and cookie objects.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-776] Fixed concurrency issues with AbstractPoolEntry.
  Contributed by <NAME> <<EMAIL> at g<EMAIL>.com>

* Resolved a long standing problem with HttpClient not taking into account
  the user context when pooling / re-using connections. HttpClient now
  correctly handles stateful / user specific connections such as persistent
  NTLM connections and SSL connections with client side authentication.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-773] Improved handling of the 'expires' attribute by the
  'Best Match' cookie spec.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Partial NTLM support (requires an external NTLM engine). For details see
  NTLM_SUPPORT.txt
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Redesigned local execution context management.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

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Release 4.0 Alpha 4
-------------------

ALPHA4 marks the completion of the overhaul of the connection management
code in HttpClient. All known shortcomings of the old HttpClient 3.x
connection management API have been addressed.

NTLM authentication remains the only missing major feature in the new
codeline that prevents us from moving awards the API freeze.

There has been a number of important bug fixes since ALPHA3. All upstream
projects are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release.

-------------------

HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported:
-------------------

* NTLM authentication scheme

-------------------

Changelog:
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-765] String.toLowerCase() / toUpperCase() should specify
  Locale.ENGLISH
  Contributed by <NAME> <sebb at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-769] Do not pool connection marked non-reusable.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-763] Fixed problem with AbstractClientConnAdapter#abortConnection()
  not releasing the connection if called from the main execution thread while
  there is no blocking I/O operation.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-652] Added optional state attribute to managed client connections.
  This enables connection managers to correctly handle stateful connections.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-673] Revised max connections per route configuration
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-753] Class Scheme and related classes moved to a separate package
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-757] Improved request wrapping in the DefaultClientRequestDirector.
  This also fixed the problem with the default proxy set at the client level
  having no effect.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-734] Request abort will unblock the thread waiting for a connection
  Contributed by <NAME> <sberlin at gmail.com>

* [HTTPCLIENT-759] Ensure release of connections back to the connection manager
  on exceptions.
  Contributed by <NAME> <s<EMAIL>lin at gmail.<EMAIL>>

* [HTTPCLIENT-758] Fixed the use of generics in AbstractHttpClient
  #removeRequestInterceptorByClass and #removeResponseInterceptorByClass
  Contributed by <NAME> <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de>

* [HTTPCLIENT-749] HttpParams beans
  Contributed by <NAME> <sdmiski at yahoo.it>

* [HTTPCLIENT-755] Workaround for known bugs in java.net.URI.resolve()
  Bug ID: 4708535
  Contributed by <NAME> <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de>

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Release 4.0 Alpha 3
-------------------

ALPHA3 release brings another round of API refinements and improvements in
functionality. As of this release HttpClient requires Java 5 compatible
runtime environment and takes full advantage of generics and new concurrency
primitives.

This release also introduces new default cookie policy that selects a cookie
specification depending on the format of cookies sent by the target host.
It is no longer necessary to know beforehand what kind of HTTP cookie support
the target host provides. HttpClient is now able to pick up either a lenient
or a strict cookie policy depending on the compliance level of the target host.

Another notable improvement is a completely reworked support for multipart
entities based on Apache mime4j library.

-------------------

HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported:
-------------------

* NTLM authentication scheme

-------------------

Changelog:
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-742] common interface for HttpRoute and RouteTracker
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-741] Fixed concurrency issues in AbstractClientConnAdapter.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-726] testcase for spurious wakeups in ThreadSafeClientConnManager
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-643] Automatic connect fail-over for multi-home remote servers.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-735] unsetting of DEFAULT_PROXY and FORCED_ROUTE in hierarchies
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-723] route planner based on java.net.ProxySelector
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-740] don't start connection GC thread in pool constructor
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-736] route planners use SchemeRegistry instead of ConnManager
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-730] Fixed rewriting of URIs containing escaped characters
  Contributed by <NAME> <sberlin at gmail.com> and
  <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-667] Added 'Meta' cookie policy that selects a cookie
  specification depending on the format of the cookie(s).
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-729] Move HttpRoute and related classes to routing package.
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-725] Use TimeUnit arguments for timeouts in connection manager.
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-677] Connection manager no longer uses Thread.interrupt().
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-716] Allow application-defined routes.
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-712] Improve HttpRoute API
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-711] Bad route computed for redirected requests
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-715] Remove RoutedRequest from API
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-705] Fixed incorrect handling of URIs with null path component.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-688] HttpOptions#getAllowedMethods can now handle multiple
  Allow headers.
  Contributed by <NAME> <sel<EMAIL> at g<EMAIL>>

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Release 4.0 Alpha 2
-------------------

ALPHA2 release is another milestone in the redesign of HttpClient. It includes
a number of improvements since ALPHA1, among which are improved connection
pooling, support for proxy chains, redesigned HTTP state and authentication
credentials management API, improved RFC 2965 cookie specification.

-------------------

HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported
-------------------
* NTLM authentication scheme

* Support for multipart MIME coded entities

-------------------

Changelog
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-698] Resolve non-absolute redirect URIs relative to
  the request URI
  Contributed by <NAME> <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de>

* [HTTPCLIENT-697] Throw a more intelligible exception when connection
  to a remote host cannot be established.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-689] Caching of SimpleDateFormat in DateUtils
  Contributed by <NAME> <strider at digitalstrider.com>

* [HTTPCLIENT-689] stackable parameters in AbstractHttpClient
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-477] Use distinct instances of the authentication handler
  interface for authentication with target and proxy hosts
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-690] ManagedClientConnection provides access to SSLSession
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-692] ClientConnectionManager throws InterruptedException
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-116] moved parameter names to interfaces
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-649] support for proxy chains in HttpConn
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-636] refactor ThreadSafeClientConnManager in separate package
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-669] new HttpRoutePlanner interface and implementation
  Contributed by <NAME> <selva.andre at gmail.com>

* [HTTPCLIENT-653] detached connection wrapper no longer prevents
  garbage collection of ThreadSafeClientConnManager
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-674] use org.apache.http.util.VersionInfo instead of a local one
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-666] Replaced HttpState with CredentialsProvier and CookieStore interfaces
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-100] revised HttpContext hierarchy
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-618] eliminate class HostConfiguration
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-672] re-sync with API changes in core alpha6-SNAPSHOT
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

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Release 4.0 Alpha 1
-------------------

HttpClient 4.0 represents a complete, ground-up redesign and almost a complete
rewrite of the HttpClient 3.x codeline. This release finally addresses several
design flaws that existed since the 1.0 release and could not be fixed without
a major code overhaul and breaking API compatibility.

The HttpClient 4.0 API is still very experimental and is bound to change
during the course of the ALPHA development phase. Several important features
have not yet been ported to the new API.

Architectural changes
---------------------

* Redesign of the HttpClient internals addressing all known
  major architectural shortcomings of the 3.x codeline

* Cleaner, more flexible and expressive API

* Better performance and smaller memory footprint due to a more
  efficient HTTP transport based on HttpCore. HttpClient 4.0 is
  expected to be 10% to 25% faster than HttpClient 3.x codeline

* More modular structure

* Pluggable redirect and authentication handlers

* Support for protocol incerceptors

* Improved connection management

* Improved support for sending requests via a proxy or a chain of
  proxies

* Improved handling redirects of entity enclosing requests

* More flexible SSL context customization

* Reduced intermediate garbage in the process of
  generating HTTP requests and parsing HTTP responses

-------------------

HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported
-------------------
* NTLM authentication scheme

* RFC2965 cookie policy (Cookie2)

* Support for multipart MIME coded entities

-------------------

Changelog
-------------------

The following is a list of contributions tracked in JIRA.
Note that this is not a complete list of contributions or changes.
Since the API was redesigned completely, tracking everything outside
of the source code repository would have been too burdensome.

* [HTTPCLIENT-655] User-Agent string no longer violates RFC
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-541] Virtual host API redesign
  Contributed by O<NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-614] Allow for different strategies when checking
  CN of x509 certificates
  Contributed by <NAME> <<EMAIL> at g<EMAIL>>

* [HTTPCLIENT-136] Fixed inadequate proxy support
  Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 19/Dec/2002.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-63] Support for pluggable redirect and authentication handlers
  Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 15/Jul/2002.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-245] Fixed redirect handling. HttpClient can now automatically
  handle redirects of entity enclosing requests.
  Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 14/Jul/2003.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-613] HTTPS connections now verify CN of x509 certificates
  Contributed by <NAME> <<EMAIL> at g<EMAIL>>

* [HTTPCLIENT-497] Wire/header logger names consistent with class loggers
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-484] AuthSSLProtocolSocketFactory in the main distribution
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-589] Do not consume the remaining response content if
  the connection is to be closed
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-475] Support for unconnected sockets. HTTP requests can now be
  aborted while network socket is still being connected.
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

<commit_msg>Updated release notes: added entry on host multihoming<commit_after>Release 4.1 ALPHA2
-------------------

HttpClient 4.1 ALPHA2 fixes a number of non-severe bugs discovered since 
the last release and introduces support for two frequently requested features:

* HTTP/1.1 response caching

* transparent support for host multihoming

* a mechanism to bypass the standard certificate trust verification 
(useful when dealing with self-signed certificates)

Compatibility notes
-------------------
(1) Please note the HTTP caching module is still considered experimental and 
its API may change significantly in the future releases.

(2) This release eliminates Mime4J as a dependency for the HttpMime module. 
HttpMime is no longer binary compatible with the previous releases. 
Full API and binary compatibility between minor versions of HttpMime will be
maintained as of 4.1 GA release.

Changelog
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-936] Fixed bug causing NPE or an infinite loop in 
  the authentication code in case of a SPNEGO authentication failure. 
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-427] HTTP caching support
  Contributed by <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>

* Dropped dependency on Mime4j for HttpMime.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Extended SSLSocketFactory with a mechanism to bypass the standard certificate
  trust verification (primarily to simplify dealing with self-signed
  certificates)
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-898] Improved support for host multihoming
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-916] UsernamePasswordCredentials, NTUserPrincipal,
  BasicClientCookie, BasicClientCookie2 and BasicCookieStore made Serializable.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-914] Upgraded Commons Codec dependency to version 1.4
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-903] Use ConcurrentHashMap instead of [Linked]HashMap for
  thread-safety. Improve performance of AuthSchemeRegistry, CookieSpecRegistry
  and SchemeRegistry classes.
  Contributed by <NAME> <sebb at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-902] HttpRequestRetryHandler not called on I/O exceptions
  thrown when opening a new connection.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olamy at apache.org> and
  <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

Release 4.1 ALPHA1
-------------------

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.

* 5 to 10% performance increase due to elimination of unnecessary Log object
  lookups by short-lived components.

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.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-862] Extended client's redirect handling interface to allow
  control of the content of the redirect.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-872] HttpClient can now persist authentication data between request
  executions as long as they share the same execution context. It has also become
  much easier to make HttpClient authenticate preemptively by pre-populating
  authentication data cache.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-883] SO_TIMEOUT is not reset on persistent (re-used) connections.
  Contributed by <NAME> <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.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-523] Support for SPNEGO authentication scheme.
  Contributed by <NAME> <mavricknzwork at yahoo.com>

* Simplified configuration of connection managers. Total connection maximum
  and maximum connection per route limits can be set using methods of
  the class instead of HTTP parameters.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Added parameters to define the order of preference for supported auth
  schemes for target host and proxy authentication.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-875] DefaultClientConnectionOperator#openConnection doesn't
  update the connection state if the connection socket changed after
  the call to SocketFactory#connectSocket().
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-834] Transparent content encoding support.
  Contributed by <NAME> <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.

This release is also expected to improve performance by 5 to 10% due to
elimination of unnecessary Log object lookups by short-lived components.

Changelog
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-895] Eliminated Log lookups in short lived objects impairing
  performance.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-885] URLEncodedUtils now correctly parses form-url-encoded
  entities that specify a charset.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-884] UrlEncodedFormEntity now sets charset on the Content-Type
  header.
  Contributed by <NAME> <jmjacobs at cs.stanford.edu>

* [HTTPCLIENT-883] SO_TIMEOUT is not reset on persistent (re-used) connections.
  Contributed by <NAME> <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 <NAME> <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 <NAME> <tboemker at elynx.com> and
  <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-866] Removed dependency on jcip-annotations.jar.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>
  and <NAME> <sebb at apache.org>


Release 4.0
-------------------

HttpClient 4.0 represents a complete, ground-up redesign and almost a complete
rewrite of the HttpClient 3.x codeline. This release finally addresses several
design flaws that existed since the 1.0 release and could not be fixed without
a major code overhaul and breaking API compatibility.


Architectural changes
---------------------

* Redesign of the HttpClient internals addressing all known major
  architectural shortcomings of the 3.x codeline.

* Cleaner, more flexible and expressive API.

* More modular structure.

* Better performance and smaller memory footprint due to a more efficient HTTP
  transport based on HttpCore.

* Implementation of cross-cutting HTTP protocol aspects through protocol
  interceptors.

* Improved connection management, better handling of persistent connections,
  support for stateful connections

* Pluggable redirect and authentication handlers.

* Improved support for sending requests via a proxy or a chain of proxies

* More flexible SSL context customization

* Reduced intermediate garbage in the process of generating HTTP requests
  and parsing HTTP responses


Important notes
-------------------

* Future releases of HttpMime module may be binary incompatible with this
  release due to possible API changes in Apache Mime4J. Apache Mime4J is
  still being actively developed and its API is considered unstable.

* HttpClient 4.0 is not fully binary compatible with 4.0 BETA1 release.
  Some protected variables in connection management class have been
  made final in order to help ensure their thread safety:

    org.apache.http.conn.BasicEofSensorWatcher#attemptReuse
    org.apache.http.conn.BasicEofSensorWatcher#managedConn
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator#schemeRegistry
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpRoutePlanner#schemeRegistry
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.ProxySelectorRoutePlanner#schemeRegistry
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager#alwaysShutDown
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager#connOperator
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager#schemeRegistry
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager#connOperator
    org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager#schemeRegistry


Bug fixes since 4.0 BETA2 release
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-861] URIUtils#resolve is now compatible with all examples given
  in RFC 3986.
  Contributed by <NAME> <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de>

* [HTTPCLIENT-860] HttpClient no longer converts redirects of PUT/POST to GET
  for status codes 301, 302, 307, as required by the HTTP spec.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-859] CookieIdentityComparator now takes path attribute into
  consideration when comparing cookies.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* HttpClient will no longer send expired cookies back to the origin server.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-856] Proxy NTLM authentication no longer fails on a redirect to
  a different host.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-841] Removed automatic connection release using garbage collection
  due to a memory leak.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-853] Fixed bug causing invalid cookie origin port to be selected
  when the target is accessed on the default port and the connection is
  established via a proxy.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-852] Fixed bug causing automatically retried redirects fail with
  CircularRedirectException.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Fixed problem with the default HTTP response parser failing to handle garbage
  preceding a valid HTTP response.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* NonRepeatableRequestExceptions now include the cause that the original
  request failed.
  Contributed by <NAME> <sberlin at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-837] Fixed problem with the wire log skipping zero byte values
  if read one byte at a time.
  Contributed by <NAME> <ksafonov at swiftteams.com>

* [HTTPCLIENT-823] 'http.conn-manager.max-total' parameter can be adjusted
  dynamically. However, the size of existing connection pools per route,
  once allocated, will not be adjusted.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-822] Default socket factories to rethrow SocketTimeoutException
  as ConnectTimeoutException in case of connect failure due to a time out.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-813] Fixed default port resolution. Invalid ports no longer
  get replaced with the default port value.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

Release 4.0 beta 2
-------------------

BETA2 is a maintenance release, which addresses a number of issues
discovered since the previous release.

The only significant new feature is an addition of an OSGi compliant
bundle combining HttpClient and HttpMime jars.

All upstream projects are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

* Fixed NPE in DefaultRequestDirector thrown when retrying a failed
  request over a proxied connection.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-803] Fixed bug in SSL host verifier implementations
  causing the SSL certificate to be rejected as invalid if the connection
  is established using an IP address.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-806] DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler will no longer retry
  on ConnectExceptions.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* DigestScheme can use an arbitrary digest algorithm requested by the
  target server (such as SHA) as long as this algorithm is supported by
  the Java runtime.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Fixed parsing and validation of RFC2109 compliant Set-Cookie headers
  by the Best-Match cookie spec.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Fixed bug that can cause a managed connection to be returned from the
  pool in an inconsistent state.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>


4.0 Beta 1
-------------------

BETA1 release brings yet another round of API enhancements and
improvements in the area of connection management. Among the most notable
ones is the capability to handle stateful connections such as persistent
NTLM connections and private key authenticated SSL connections.

This is the first API stable release of HttpClient 4.0. All further
releases in the 4.0 code line will maintain API compatibility with this
release.

There has been a number of important bug fixes since ALPHA4. All upstream
projects are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release.

Please note HttpClient currently provides only limited support for NTLM
authentication. For details please see NTLM_SUPPORT.txt.

-------------------

Changelog:
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-790] Protocol interceptors are now correctly invoked when
  executing CONNECT methods.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-668] Do not use static loggers.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-781] Respect Keep-Alive header's timeout value.
  Contributed by <NAME> <sberlin at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-779] Top-level classes (HttpClient, and HttpGet, HttpPut
  and similar HttpMethods) throw fewer checked exceptions.
  Contributed by <NAME> <sberlin at apache.org>

* HttpClient will throw an exception if an attempt is made to retry
  a request with a non-repeatable request entity.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Fixed request re-generation logic when retrying a failed request.
  Auto-generated headers will no accumulate.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-424] Preemptive authentication no longer limited to BASIC
  scheme only. HttpClient can be customized to authenticate preemptively
  with DIGEST scheme.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-670] Pluggable hostname resolver.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-719] Clone support for HTTP request and cookie objects.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-776] Fixed concurrency issues with AbstractPoolEntry.
  Contributed by <NAME> <sberlin at gmail.com>

* Resolved a long standing problem with HttpClient not taking into account
  the user context when pooling / re-using connections. HttpClient now
  correctly handles stateful / user specific connections such as persistent
  NTLM connections and SSL connections with client side authentication.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-773] Improved handling of the 'expires' attribute by the
  'Best Match' cookie spec.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Partial NTLM support (requires an external NTLM engine). For details see
  NTLM_SUPPORT.txt
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* Redesigned local execution context management.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

--------------------------------------

Release 4.0 Alpha 4
-------------------

ALPHA4 marks the completion of the overhaul of the connection management
code in HttpClient. All known shortcomings of the old HttpClient 3.x
connection management API have been addressed.

NTLM authentication remains the only missing major feature in the new
codeline that prevents us from moving awards the API freeze.

There has been a number of important bug fixes since ALPHA3. All upstream
projects are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release.

-------------------

HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported:
-------------------

* NTLM authentication scheme

-------------------

Changelog:
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-765] String.toLowerCase() / toUpperCase() should specify
  Locale.ENGLISH
  Contributed by <NAME> <sebb at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-769] Do not pool connection marked non-reusable.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-763] Fixed problem with AbstractClientConnAdapter#abortConnection()
  not releasing the connection if called from the main execution thread while
  there is no blocking I/O operation.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-652] Added optional state attribute to managed client connections.
  This enables connection managers to correctly handle stateful connections.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-673] Revised max connections per route configuration
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-753] Class Scheme and related classes moved to a separate package
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-757] Improved request wrapping in the DefaultClientRequestDirector.
  This also fixed the problem with the default proxy set at the client level
  having no effect.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-734] Request abort will unblock the thread waiting for a connection
  Contributed by <NAME> <s<EMAIL>lin at gmail.com>

* [HTTPCLIENT-759] Ensure release of connections back to the connection manager
  on exceptions.
  Contributed by <NAME> <<EMAIL> at g<EMAIL>>

* [HTTPCLIENT-758] Fixed the use of generics in AbstractHttpClient
  #removeRequestInterceptorByClass and #removeResponseInterceptorByClass
  Contributed by <NAME> <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de>

* [HTTPCLIENT-749] HttpParams beans
  Contributed by <NAME> <sdmiski at yahoo.it>

* [HTTPCLIENT-755] Workaround for known bugs in java.net.URI.resolve()
  Bug ID: 4708535
  Contributed by <NAME> <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de>

--------------------------------------

Release 4.0 Alpha 3
-------------------

ALPHA3 release brings another round of API refinements and improvements in
functionality. As of this release HttpClient requires Java 5 compatible
runtime environment and takes full advantage of generics and new concurrency
primitives.

This release also introduces new default cookie policy that selects a cookie
specification depending on the format of cookies sent by the target host.
It is no longer necessary to know beforehand what kind of HTTP cookie support
the target host provides. HttpClient is now able to pick up either a lenient
or a strict cookie policy depending on the compliance level of the target host.

Another notable improvement is a completely reworked support for multipart
entities based on Apache mime4j library.

-------------------

HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported:
-------------------

* NTLM authentication scheme

-------------------

Changelog:
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-742] common interface for HttpRoute and RouteTracker
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-741] Fixed concurrency issues in AbstractClientConnAdapter.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-726] testcase for spurious wakeups in ThreadSafeClientConnManager
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-643] Automatic connect fail-over for multi-home remote servers.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-735] unsetting of DEFAULT_PROXY and FORCED_ROUTE in hierarchies
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-723] route planner based on java.net.ProxySelector
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-740] don't start connection GC thread in pool constructor
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-736] route planners use SchemeRegistry instead of ConnManager
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-730] Fixed rewriting of URIs containing escaped characters
  Contributed by <NAME> <sberlin at gmail.com> and
  <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-667] Added 'Meta' cookie policy that selects a cookie
  specification depending on the format of the cookie(s).
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-729] Move HttpRoute and related classes to routing package.
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-725] Use TimeUnit arguments for timeouts in connection manager.
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-677] Connection manager no longer uses Thread.interrupt().
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-716] Allow application-defined routes.
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-712] Improve HttpRoute API
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-711] Bad route computed for redirected requests
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-715] Remove RoutedRequest from API
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-705] Fixed incorrect handling of URIs with null path component.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-688] HttpOptions#getAllowedMethods can now handle multiple
  Allow headers.
  Contributed by <NAME> <selva.andre at gmail.com>

--------------------------------------

Release 4.0 Alpha 2
-------------------

ALPHA2 release is another milestone in the redesign of HttpClient. It includes
a number of improvements since ALPHA1, among which are improved connection
pooling, support for proxy chains, redesigned HTTP state and authentication
credentials management API, improved RFC 2965 cookie specification.

-------------------

HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported
-------------------
* NTLM authentication scheme

* Support for multipart MIME coded entities

-------------------

Changelog
-------------------

* [HTTPCLIENT-698] Resolve non-absolute redirect URIs relative to
  the request URI
  Contributed by <NAME> <johannes.koch at fit.fraunhofer.de>

* [HTTPCLIENT-697] Throw a more intelligible exception when connection
  to a remote host cannot be established.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-689] Caching of SimpleDateFormat in DateUtils
  Contributed by <NAME> <strider at digitalstrider.com>

* [HTTPCLIENT-689] stackable parameters in AbstractHttpClient
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-477] Use distinct instances of the authentication handler
  interface for authentication with target and proxy hosts
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-690] ManagedClientConnection provides access to SSLSession
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-692] ClientConnectionManager throws InterruptedException
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-116] moved parameter names to interfaces
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-649] support for proxy chains in HttpConn
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-636] refactor ThreadSafeClientConnManager in separate package
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-669] new HttpRoutePlanner interface and implementation
  Contributed by <NAME> <selva.andre at gmail.com>

* [HTTPCLIENT-653] detached connection wrapper no longer prevents
  garbage collection of ThreadSafeClientConnManager
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-674] use org.apache.http.util.VersionInfo instead of a local one
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-666] Replaced HttpState with CredentialsProvier and CookieStore interfaces
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-100] revised HttpContext hierarchy
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-618] eliminate class HostConfiguration
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-672] re-sync with API changes in core alpha6-SNAPSHOT
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

--------------------------------------

Release 4.0 Alpha 1
-------------------

HttpClient 4.0 represents a complete, ground-up redesign and almost a complete
rewrite of the HttpClient 3.x codeline. This release finally addresses several
design flaws that existed since the 1.0 release and could not be fixed without
a major code overhaul and breaking API compatibility.

The HttpClient 4.0 API is still very experimental and is bound to change
during the course of the ALPHA development phase. Several important features
have not yet been ported to the new API.

Architectural changes
---------------------

* Redesign of the HttpClient internals addressing all known
  major architectural shortcomings of the 3.x codeline

* Cleaner, more flexible and expressive API

* Better performance and smaller memory footprint due to a more
  efficient HTTP transport based on HttpCore. HttpClient 4.0 is
  expected to be 10% to 25% faster than HttpClient 3.x codeline

* More modular structure

* Pluggable redirect and authentication handlers

* Support for protocol incerceptors

* Improved connection management

* Improved support for sending requests via a proxy or a chain of
  proxies

* Improved handling redirects of entity enclosing requests

* More flexible SSL context customization

* Reduced intermediate garbage in the process of
  generating HTTP requests and parsing HTTP responses

-------------------

HttpClient 3.x features that have NOT yet been ported
-------------------
* NTLM authentication scheme

* RFC2965 cookie policy (Cookie2)

* Support for multipart MIME coded entities

-------------------

Changelog
-------------------

The following is a list of contributions tracked in JIRA.
Note that this is not a complete list of contributions or changes.
Since the API was redesigned completely, tracking everything outside
of the source code repository would have been too burdensome.

* [HTTPCLIENT-655] User-Agent string no longer violates RFC
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-541] Virtual host API redesign
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-614] Allow for different strategies when checking
  CN of x509 certificates
  Contributed by <NAME> <<EMAIL> at g<EMAIL>>

* [HTTPCLIENT-136] Fixed inadequate proxy support
  Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 19/Dec/2002.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-63] Support for pluggable redirect and authentication handlers
  Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 15/Jul/2002.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-245] Fixed redirect handling. HttpClient can now automatically
  handle redirects of entity enclosing requests.
  Long standing architectural problem. Issue opened on 14/Jul/2003.
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-613] HTTPS connections now verify CN of x509 certificates
  Contributed by <NAME> <juliusdavies at gmail.com>

* [HTTPCLIENT-497] Wire/header logger names consistent with class loggers
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-484] AuthSSLProtocolSocketFactory in the main distribution
  Contributed by <NAME> <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-589] Do not consume the remaining response content if
  the connection is to be closed
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCLIENT-475] Support for unconnected sockets. HTTP requests can now be
  aborted while network socket is still being connected.
  Contributed by <NAME> <rolandw at apache.org>


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