svn commit: r1157527 - /httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES.txt

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Author: olegk
Date: Sun Aug 14 12:55:43 2011
New Revision: 1157527

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1157527&view=rev
Log:
Updated release notes for HttpCore 4.2-alpha1 release

Modified:
    httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES.txt

Modified: httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES.txt?rev=1157527&r1=1157526&r2=1157527&view=diff
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--- httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES.txt (original)
+++ httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES.txt Sun Aug 14 12:55:43 2011
@@ -1,6 +1,22 @@
-Changes since 4.1.3
+Release 4.2-ALPHA1
 -------------------
 
+This is the first ALPHA release of 4.2. The most notable feature included in this release is 
+support for connection pools of blocking and non-blocking HTTP connections. Connection pool 
+components are based on mature code migrated from HttpClient and HttpAsyncClient modules but have 
+a slightly different API that makes a better use of Java standard concurrent primitives. 
+
+Support for connection pools in HttpCore is expected to make development of client and proxy HTTP
+services easier and less error prone.
+
+Please note that new features included in this release are still considered experimental and 
+their API may change in the future ALPHA releases. This release also marks the end of support for 
+Java 1.3. As of this release HttpCore requires Java 1.5 for all its components. Several classes and 
+methods deprecated between versions 4.0-beta1 and 4.0 GA (more than two years ago) have been 
+removed in this release.
+
+Bug fixes:
+
 * [HTTPCORE-268] Handle runtime exceptions thrown by SSLEngine.
   Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>