[ANNOUNCEMENT] HttpComponents Core 5.2 GA released

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

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

This is the first GA release in the 5.2 release series. This release
finalizes the 5.2 APIs and also corrects a number of defects discovered
since the previous release.

Please note that 5.2 upgrades the 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 connection listeners (async).

* Improved parsing and formatting of URI components.

* Use of Java 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