[ANNOUNCEMENT] HttpComponents Core 4.4-alpha1 released

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

The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 4.4-alpha1
release of HttpComponents Core. 

This is the first ALPHA release from the 4.4.x development branch. The
most notable features included in this release are:

* Support for pipelined request processing on the server side

* Support for pipelined request execution on the client side

* Simplified bootstrapping of blocking and non-blocking (NIO) HTTP
server implementations   

Download -
<http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi>
Release notes -
<http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES.txt>
HttpComponents site - 
<http://hc.apache.org/>

About HttpComponents Core

HttpCore is a set of low level HTTP transport components that can be
used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal
footprint. HttpCore supports two I/O models: a blocking I/O model based
on the classic Java I/O and a non-blocking, event driven I/O model based
on Java NIO.