Release 4.0 Beta 3
-------------------

The third BETA version of HttpComponents Core has been released. This 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 HttpCore and HttpCore NIO jars.

* [HTTPCORE-173] Tolerate missing closing chunk if the chunk coded content 
  is terminated by the end of stream (EOF) condition.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* [HTTPCORE-174] Position is incremented twice in ContentLengthInputStream#skip(long) 
  Contributed by Ildar Safarov <ildar.safarov at gmail.com> 

* [HTTPCORE-125] OSGi bundle containing HttpCore & HttpCore NIO jars. 
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* CancelledKeyException thrown in BaseIOReactor#validate() no longer causes 
  a premature I/O reactor shutdown. 
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* [HTTPCORE-172] Added #close() method to SharedInputBuffer and 
  SharedOutputBuffer. The purpose of the new method is to close the buffer 
  in case of normal / orderly termination of the underlying HTTP connection. 
  Use #shutdown() method to force-close the buffer in case of abnormal / 
  exceptional termination of the underlying connection.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* [HTTPCORE-170] Fixed race condition in SharedOutputBuffer.
  Contributed by Jason Walton <Jason.Walton at alcatel-lucent.com>

* [HTTPCORE-169] Fixed bug causing connecting I/O reactors to shut down due to
  ClosedChannelException if a pending session request is cancelled before the new
  channel has been registered with the selector.
  Contributed by Anders Wallgren <anders_wallgren at alum.mit.edu>

* [HTTPCORE-167] Fixed handling the end of stream (EOF) condition in the #isStale() 
  check of blocking HTTP connections.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* [HTTPCORE-166] NIO reactors now maintain an audit log of fatal exceptions,
  which can be used to examine the cause and problems experienced during 
  the shutdown process.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* [HTTPCORE-165] Improved handling of CancelledKeyException in I/O reactors
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

HttpCore API changes (generated by JarDiff 0.2)
--------------------------------------

Class added: 
  public abstract org.apache.http.io.EofSensor extends java.lang.Object
Class changed: org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection
  Methods added:
    protected boolean isEof();

Class changed: org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpServerConnection
  Methods added:
    protected boolean isEof();

Class changed: org.apache.http.impl.SocketHttpServerConnection
  Methods added:
    protected org.apache.http.io.SessionInputBuffer createSessionInputBuffer(java.net.Socket, int, org.apache.http.params.HttpParams) throws java.io.IOException;
    protected org.apache.http.io.SessionOutputBuffer createSessionOutputBuffer(java.net.Socket, int, org.apache.http.params.HttpParams) throws java.io.IOException;

  Method changed:
  old:
    protected org.apache.http.io.SessionInputBuffer createHttpDataReceiver(java.net.Socket, int, org.apache.http.params.HttpParams) throws java.io.IOException;

  new:
    deprecated: protected org.apache.http.io.SessionInputBuffer createHttpDataReceiver(java.net.Socket, int, org.apache.http.params.HttpParams) throws java.io.IOException;

  Method changed:
  old:
    protected org.apache.http.io.SessionOutputBuffer createHttpDataTransmitter(java.net.Socket, int, org.apache.http.params.HttpParams) throws java.io.IOException;

  new:
    deprecated: protected org.apache.http.io.SessionOutputBuffer createHttpDataTransmitter(java.net.Socket, int, org.apache.http.params.HttpParams) throws java.io.IOException;

Class changed: org.apache.http.impl.io.SocketInputBuffer
  Methods added:
    protected int fillBuffer() throws java.io.IOException;
    public boolean isEof();

  Class descriptor changed:
  old:
    public org.apache.http.impl.io.SocketInputBuffer extends org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer
  new:
    public org.apache.http.impl.io.SocketInputBuffer extends org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer implements org.apache.http.io.EofSensor
Class changed: org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair
  Class descriptor changed:
  old:
    public org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair extends java.lang.Object implements org.apache.http.NameValuePair, java.lang.Cloneable
  new:
    public org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair extends java.lang.Object implements org.apache.http.NameValuePair, java.lang.Cloneable, java.io.Serializable
API diff generated by JarDiff http://www.osjava.org/jardiff/

HttpCore NIO API changes (generated by JarDiff 0.2)
--------------------------------------

Class added: 
  public org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.ExceptionEvent extends java.lang.Object
Class changed: org.apache.http.impl.nio.DefaultNHttpClientConnection
  Fields added:
    protected final org.apache.http.nio.NHttpMessageWriter requestWriter;
    protected final org.apache.http.nio.NHttpMessageParser responseParser;

Class changed: org.apache.http.impl.nio.DefaultNHttpServerConnection
  Fields added:
    protected final org.apache.http.nio.NHttpMessageParser requestParser;
    protected final org.apache.http.nio.NHttpMessageWriter responseWriter;

Class changed: org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor
  Methods removed:
    protected abstract org.apache.http.nio.reactor.IOSession keyCancelled(java.nio.channels.SelectionKey);
    protected abstract void keyCreated(java.nio.channels.SelectionKey, org.apache.http.nio.reactor.IOSession);

  Methods added:
    protected abstract org.apache.http.nio.reactor.IOSession getSession(java.nio.channels.SelectionKey);
    protected void queueClosedSession(org.apache.http.nio.reactor.IOSession);
    protected abstract void sessionCreated(java.nio.channels.SelectionKey, org.apache.http.nio.reactor.IOSession);

Class changed: org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor
  Methods added:
    protected void addExceptionEvent(java.lang.Throwable);
    protected synchronized void addExceptionEvent(java.lang.Throwable, java.util.Date);
    public synchronized java.util.List getAuditLog();

  Fields added:
    protected java.util.List auditLog;

  Method changed:
  old:
    protected void doShutdown() throws java.io.IOException;

  new:
    protected void doShutdown() throws java.io.InterruptedIOException;

Class changed: org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.BaseIOReactor
  Methods removed:
    protected org.apache.http.nio.reactor.IOSession keyCancelled(java.nio.channels.SelectionKey);
    protected void keyCreated(java.nio.channels.SelectionKey, org.apache.http.nio.reactor.IOSession);

  Methods added:
    protected org.apache.http.nio.reactor.IOSession getSession(java.nio.channels.SelectionKey);
    protected void sessionCreated(java.nio.channels.SelectionKey, org.apache.http.nio.reactor.IOSession);

Class changed: org.apache.http.nio.util.SharedInputBuffer
  Methods added:
    public void close();

Class changed: org.apache.http.nio.util.SharedOutputBuffer
  Methods added:
    public void close();

API diff generated by JarDiff http://www.osjava.org/jardiff/


Release 4.0 Beta 2
-------------------

The second BETA version of HttpComponents Core has been released. This release 
adds a number of improvements to the NIO components, most notable being improved 
asynchronous client side and server side protocol handlers.

There has been a number of important bug fixes in HttpCore NIO module, whereas 
HttpCore base module has had very few changes.

All upstream projects dependent on HttpCore NIO are strongly advised to upgrade.

* [HTTPCORE-163] Fixed AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor#execute() to correctly 
  propagate the original I/O exception in case of an abnormal termination. 
  Contributed by Patrick Moore <patmoore at ieee.org> 

* Changed behavior of IdentityDecoder & LengthDelimitedDecoder to throw
  an IOException if data is attempted to be written beyond the length
  of a FileChannel.  Previously would write nothing.
  Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at apache.org>

* Fixed bug in LengthDelimitedDecoder & IdentityDecoder that caused transfers
  to a FileChannel to overwrite arbitrary parts of the file, if data was
  buffered in SessionInputBuffer.
  Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at apache.org>

* Fixed concurrency bug in the ThrottlingHttpServerHandler protocol handler.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* Fixed bug in SharedInputBuffer that caused input events to be
  incorrectly suspended.
  Contributed by Asankha C. Perera <asankha at wso2.com>

* [HTTPCORE-150] Entity implementation that serializes a Java object
  Contributed by Andrea Selva <selva.andrea at gmail.com>

* [HTTPCORE-157] ChunkedOutputStream#flush() now behaves consistently with the 
  specification of OutputStream#flush().
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* [HTTPCORE-147] Fixed handling of requests with partially consumed content
  in ThrottlingHttpServiceHandler.
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* [HTTPCORE-92] ChunkEncoder splits input data larger than available space 
  in the session output buffer into smaller chunks instead of expanding 
  the buffer. 
  Contributed by Andrea Selva <selva.andrea at gmail.com> and 
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* [HTTPCORE-149] I/O reactors now count period of inactivity since the
  time of the last read or write operation. Previously only read 
  operations resulted in timeout counter reset.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* [HTTPCORE-148] Improved asynchronous server and client HTTP protocol 
  handler implementations.
  Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at gmail.com> 

* [HTTPCORE-143] Ensure the underlying channel is closed if the session 
  request is canceled or times out.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 

* [HTTPCORE-140] Fixed timeout handling in ThrottlingHttpServiceHandler.
  Contributed by Lorenzo Moretti <moznerol at hotmail.com> and 
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> 



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

The first BETA version of HttpComponents Core has been released. This release 
can be considered a major milestone, as it marks the end of API instability 
in HttpCore. As of this release the API compatibility between minor releases
in 4.x codeline will be maintained.

This release includes several major improvements such as enhanced HTTP message 
parsing API and optimized parser implementations, Java 5.0 compatibility
for HttpCore NIO extensions. Upstream projects are strongly encouraged to
upgrade to the latest release.

The focus of the development efforts will be gradually shifting towards
providing better test coverage, documentation and performance optimizations. 

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

* [HTTPCORE-141] Session request timeout in DefaultConnectingIOReactor
  invalidates the request.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-137] DefaultHttpRequestFactory extended to support all methods 
  specified in RFC 2616 (except CONNECT).
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* Replaced HTTP parameter linking with a simple child/parent stack.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-134] all serialVersionUID attributes are private
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-133] Clone support for basic HTTP message elements and 
  non-streaming entities.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-127] Improved API for lifecycle management of listening I/O
  reactors. One can now suspend and resume listener endpoints.
  Contributed by Asankha C. Perera <asankha at wso2.com>

* [HTTPCORE-112] DefaultConnectionReuseStrategy interprets token sequences
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-122] new interface TokenIterator and basic implementation
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* HttpCore NIOSSL classes moved to HttpCore NIO.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* HttpCore NIO ported to Java 1.5.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-130] Fixed over-synchronization bug leading to a thread deadlock 
  condition in SSL IOEventDispatch implementations.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-37] HttpParams beans
  Contributed by Stojce Dimski <sdmiski at yahoo.it>

* [HTTPCORE-128] Simplified injection of custom NIO connection implementations.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-126] Improved HTTP message parsing API and optimized parser
  implementations. 
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* Do not include "Connection: close" to 500 responses per default. 
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-121] new interface HeaderElementIterator
  Contributed by Andrea Selva <selva.andrea at gmail.com>

* [HTTPCORE-123] Fixed problem with SSLSession losing buffered data, if the 
  connection has been closed by the peer.
  Contributed by Risto Reinpõld <risto.reinpold at gmail.com>



Release 4.0 Alpha 6
-------------------

The sixth ALPHA version of HttpComponents Core has been released. This release
sports an improved message parsing and formatting API in the base module and
lots of incremental improvements and bug fixes in the NIO and NIOSSL modules.
Based on the improved API, it is now possible to send and receive SIP messages
with HttpComponents Core.

HttpCore is now feature complete and we are planning to freeze the public APIs
as of next release (BETA1). 

* [HTTPCORE-120] new interface HeaderIterator, available from HttpMessage
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-118] Purge closed sessions prior to opening new ones. This should
  reduce chances of running out of memory when opening and closing lots of
  NIO connections in a tight loop. 
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-117] Fixed bug preventing protocol handlers from closing timed out
  NIO connection when pending output (output session buffer is not empty). 
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-86] Allow for optional handling of runtime exceptions
  thrown by protocol handlers to ensure the I/O dispatch thread
  remains running.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

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

* [HTTPCORE-109] Improved shutdown process of the I/O reactors in NIO modules.
  I/O reactors now attempt to terminate connections gracefully before shutting
  down the underlying socket channels.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-107] allow sending and receiving of SIP messages
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-114]: Fixed incorrect handling of the end-of-stream condition
  in SSLIOSession. 
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-110] refactored message parsing and formatting logic
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-113] Removed unnecessary target hostname resolution from
  non-blocking client protocol handlers.
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-108] Close all channels registered with the I/O reactor during 
  shutdown. Fixed the problem with DefaultListeningIOReactor not releasing
  socket ports until JVM is restarted.
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-106] Pluggable HTTP message parsers and message writers
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-105] Consistent class names in base and NIO modules
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

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

* [HTTPCORE-103] NIO connections now attempt to consume all available session 
  data while parsing HTTP messages. This can  potentially improve performance 
  of non-blocking SSL connections.
  Contributed by Steffen Pingel <spingel at limewire.com>

* [HTTPCORE-102] Exceeding of maximum line length limit detected late
  Contributed by Steffen Pingel <spingel at limewire.com>

* [HTTPCORE-21] Transport and connection metrics
  Contributed by Andrea Selva <selva.andre at gmail.com> and 
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-91] new interceptor RequestDate, renamed constants in protocol.HTTP
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-90] Version detection based on build-time properties
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> and 
  Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-88] Added convenience methods to HttpRequestInterceptorList, 
  HttpResponseInterceptorList interfaces
  Contributed by Andrea Selva <selva.andre at gmail.com>

* [HTTPCORE-89]: Fixed bug in DefaultConnectingIOReactor causing incorrect 
  handling of local (immediate) connections on some platforms (affects Sun 
  Solaris 2.9 / Sparc and likely other Solaris 2.x platforms)
  Contributed by Sam Berlin <sberlin at gmail.com>

Release 4.0 Alpha 5
-------------------

The fifth ALPHA version of HttpComponents Core has been released. This release
delivers a number of incremental improvements across the board in all modules 
and adds several performance oriented features such as ability to transfer 
data directly between a file and a socket channels. 

HttpCore is almost fully feature complete now and we are likely to freeze 
the public APIs as of next release (BETA1). 

* [HTTPCORE-87] RuntimeExcpetions thrown in I/O worker threads are now correctly 
  propagated to the I/O reactor.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-84]: Removed DateUtils/DateParseException from core.
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-63]: Made I/O select interval configurable for all default I/O
  reactor implementations.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org> and 
  Anders Wallgren <anders_wallgren at alum.mit.edu>

* [HTTPCORE-82]: Revised linking of HttpParams to reduce potential for misuse. 
  Method #setDefaults() removed from the HttpParams interface.
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-81]: Maximum line length and maximum header counts parameters are now 
  correctly enforced in both base and NIO modules. Fixed maximum line length check
  when parsing folded header lines.
  Contributed by Steffen Pingel <spingel at limewire.com>

* Added HTTP client handler implementation that allocates fixed size content 
  buffers upon initialization and is capable of throttling the rate of I/O events 
  in order to make sure those content buffers do not get overflown.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-76]: Added IOSession#shutdown() method intended to force-close
  I/O sessions (primarily needed to terminate hung SSL connections).
  Contributed by Sandeep Tamhankar <sandman at electric-cloud.com>

* [HTTPCORE-78]: Added ByteBufferAllocator interface that can be used to apply 
  different ByteArray allocation strategies to session and content buffers.
  Use heap bound implementation for short-lived or variable in length (requiring 
  frequent content re-allocation) buffers.
  Contributed by Steffen Pingel <spingel at limewire.com>

* [HTTPCORE-77]: The result of CharsetDecoder#decode() and CharsetEncoder#encode() 
  was not checked for errors resulting in an infinite loop in 
  SessionInputBuffer#readLine() and SessionOutputBuffer#writeLine() 
  when malformed characters were processed.
  Contributed by Steffen Pingel <spingel at limewire.com>

* [HTTPCORE-71]: HttpParams can be copied.
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-75]: DefaultNHttpServerConnection and DefaultNHttpClientConnection 
  now correctly terminate the underlying I/O session when closed. 
  BufferingHttpServiceHandler now correctly applies connection keep-alive 
  strategy when sending a response with no content body.
  Contributed by Steffen Pingel <spingel at limewire.com>

* [HTTPCORE-73]: Fixed bug preventing NHttpServiceHandler#responseReady and 
  NHttpClientHandler#requestReady events from being fired if the HTTP message 
  has no content body.
  Contributed by Steffen Pingel <spingel at limewire.com>

* [HTTPCORE-67]: Improved event listener interface
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-43]: Support for FileChannel#transferFrom() and 
  FileChannel#transferTo() methods. Direct coping from and to FileChannel is 
  expected to improve performance of file bound operations
  Contributed by Andrea Selva <selva.andre at gmail.com>

* [HTTPCORE-66]: Fixed handling of HTTP HEAD methods
  Contributed by Steffen Pingel <spingel at limewire.com> and 
  Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-58]: NIO HTTP connections changed to throw checked 
  ConnectionClosedException instead of unchecked IllegalStateException when 
  an attempt is made to perform an I/O operation on a closed conection
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-56]: DefaultConnectingIOReactor no longer terminates due to a
  CancelledKeyException, if a session request gets canceled before selection
  key is fully initialized. 
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

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

The forth ALPHA version of HttpComponents Core has been released. 
The ALPHA4 release fixes a number of bugs and adds a number of 
improvements to HttpCore base and HttpCore NIO extensions. 
HttpCore NIO can be used to build HTTP services intended to handle 
thousands of simultaneous connections with a small number of I/O 
threads. This release also introduces NIOSSL extensions that can be 
used to extend HttpCore non-blocking transport components with 
ability to transparently encrypt data in transit using SSL/TLS protocol.

* [HTTPCORE-49]: DefaultConnectingIOReactor can now correctly handle 
  unresolved socket addresses. It no longer terminates with the 
  UnresolvedAddressException runtime exception.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-42]: Added server side API for the expectation verification. 
  Improved support for the 'expect: continue' handshake in HttpCore and 
  HttpCore NIO.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-26]: Added SSL support for HttpCore NIO.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-40]: API classes no longer reference impl classes in module-main.
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-39]: Refactored HttpStatus, spun off [English]ReasonPhraseFactory.
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-32]: HttpRequestInterceptorList, HttpResponseInterceptorList
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-38]: Packages nio.impl.* are now impl.nio.*, same for examples.
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-27]: I/O reactors can now accept a thread factory as an optional
  parameter.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-36]: Fixed #setHandlers() method and matching of request URIs 
  with a query part in HttpRequestHandlerRegistry
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-28]: DefaultConnectingIOReactor now maintains a queue of connect 
  requests and registers new sessions with the selector on the I/O thread.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-29] DefaultConnectingIOReactor changed to ensure IOExceptions 
  are correctly propagated to the caller, if an exception is thrown while 
  initializing a newly connected socket.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-24] Fixed bug in non-blocking connection implementations, which 
  prevented the session buffer from being correctly flushed when the content 
  coding process has been completed.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-23] Fixed threading bug in DefaultConnectingIOReactor.
  Contributed by Asankha C. Perera <asankha at wso2.com>

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

The third ALPHA version of HttpCore has been released. The ALPHA3 release 
includes a number of API optimizations and improvements and introduces a set 
of NIO extensions to the HttpCore API. NIO extensions can be used to build 
HTTP services intended to handle thousands of simultaneous connections with 
a small number of I/O threads.

* [HTTPCORE-15] Provided a interafce to access IP address of the local and 
  remote end points.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [ HTTPCORE-14] Scheme, SocketFactory and SecureSocketFactory moved to 
  HttpClient. Decoupled HttpHost and Scheme.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-13] Refactored HttpProcessor interface and related impl classes 
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-11] Client connection interface no longer defines a specific
  method to open a connection. HTTP connections can now represent any 
  abstract I/O transport such as those based on NIO API. 
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-10] Non-blocking (async) client side I/O transport based on NIO.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-9] Non-blocking (async) server side I/O transport based on NIO.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-7] ConnectionReuseStrategy interface changed to allow access 
  to the HTTP execution context.
  Contributed by Roland Weber <rolandw at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-6] Header implementation allowing for performance short-cuts 
  when serializing and deserializing HTTP headers.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

* [HTTPCORE-5] Header, HeaderElement, NameValuePair, RequestLine, StatusLine, 
  HttpVersion changed to interfaces. API no longer contains any parsing and 
  formatting code and does not imply any specific physical representation of 
  HTTP messages and their elements.
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

Release 4.0 Alpha 2
-------------------
This is a maintenance release that mostly fixes minor problems found since the 
previous release. The upstream projects are strongly encouraged use this 
release as a dependency while HttpCore undergoes another round of reviews
and optimization in the SVN trunk

Changelog: 
---------
* [HTTPCORE-4] optional header and line length limits to contain OOME risks
  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>

Release 4.0 Alpha 1
-------------------
This release represents a complete redesign of the Jakarta Commons HttpClient
3.x API and a significant rewrite of the core HTTP components derived from 
HttpClient 3.0 code base.

These components will form the foundation of the future releases of Jakarta
HttpClient and can also be used separately to build custom client- and 
server-side HTTP services.