[REPORT] HttpComponents

["Asankha C. Perera" <as...@apache.org>]

Status report for the Apache HttpComponents project - February 2012

The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and
maintaining a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP
and associated protocols.

Status

Overall the project remains active.

Releases

- HttpCore 4.1.4 was released on the 22nd of December 2011

- HttpCore 4.2-beta1 was released on the 28th of January 2012. The 4.2
branch of HttpCore includes a number of enhancements including a more
flexible asynchronous HTTP protocol handler API (client and server side)
and is expected to become stable within three to four months.

- HttpClient 4.1.3 was released on the 6th of February 2012. This bugfix
release included hardening of the httpclient-cache module, particularly
the memcached storage backend, as well as addressing some corner cases
that led to infinite loops or deadlocks.

- A release vote for HttpClient 4.2-beta1 is in progress

Community

The community remains small but active. There is good user interaction on
the mailing lists.

-- 
Asankha C. Perera
AdroitLogic, http://adroitlogic.org

http://esbmagic.blogspot.com





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