[ANNOUNCEMENT] HttpComponents Core 5.2-beta1 released

[Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>]

The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 5.2-beta1
release of HttpComponents Core.

This is the first BETA release in the 5.2 release series that marks the
completion of major API changes and starts the transition toward a GA
phase.

This release also includes all fixes from the 5.1 (stable) branch.

Please note that 5.2 upgrades minimal JRE level to version 8 (8u251 is
required).

Notable changes and features included in the 5.2 series:

* Upgrade to Java 8.
* Improved support for TLS upgrade and HTTP protocol upgrade (async).
* Improved HTTP protocol negotiation.
* Improved customization of HTTP listeners (async).
* Improved parsing and formatting of URI components.
* Use of Java 1.8 date / time APIs

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