[ANNOUNCEMENT] HttpComponents HttpAsyncClient 4.1-beta1 Released

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

The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 4.1-beta1
release of HttpComponents HttpAsyncClient. Notable features and
enhancements included in 4.1 series are:

* Support for pipelined request execution 

* Enhanced redesigned and rewritten default SSL hostname verifier with
improved RFC 2818 compliance

* Default SSL hostname verifier and default cookie policy now validate
certificate identity and cookie domain of origin against the public
suffix list maintained by Mozilla.org <https://publicsuffix.org/list>

* Authentication cache thread-safety: authentication caches used by
HttpAsyncClient is now thread-safe and can be shared by multiple
contexts in order to re-use authentication state for subsequent requests

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Download - 
<http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi>

Release notes -
<http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpasyncclient/RELEASE_NOTES-4.1.x.txt>

HttpComponents site -
<http://hc.apache.org/>

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About Apache HttpAsyncClient

Although the java.net package provides basic functionality for accessing
resources via HTTP, it doesn't provide the full flexibility or
functionality needed by many applications. HttpAsyncClient seeks to fill
this void by providing an efficient, up-to-date, and feature-rich
package with an event-driven programming interface based on a
non-blocking I/O model.