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15 February 2004 - HttpClient 2.0 Final released

At last 2.0 final is upon us. This release represents a great deal of work by quite a number of people. We would like to thank all of those who contributed to this release.

Please download and enjoy.

16 January 2004 - HttpClient 2.0 Release Candidate 3 released

While a final 2.0 release still eludes us, we have continued to make good progress. This release fixes some significant bugs that crept into RC2. Assuming that there are no major bugs found in this release a final release should follow shortly.

13 October 2003 - HttpClient 2.0 Release Candidate 2 released

Releasing a final version of HttpClient 2.0 by the end of Summer 2003, as originally planned, was not possible. There were a significant number of minor bugs reported against RC1. None of them were major, but verifying, fixing, and testing simply took time more time than anticipated. We are pleased to announce the second release candidate of HttpClient 2.0 and hope to follow up with a final release shortly.

At the same time we have been busy working on our next release, currently designated as 2.1. It it shaping up quite well. We already have a new preferences architecture in place that will help us provide greater control over HttpClient without polluting its API with too many options. We have also completely reworked redirect/authentication/retry logic and can now support cross-host redirects, a much complained about limitation of HttpClient 2.0.

1 August 2003 - HttpClient 2.0 Release Candidate 1 released

The HttpClient 2.0 BETA development phase has been concluded. The number of bugs discovered in the course of the BETA development was surprisingly low. We are confident that HttpClient 2.0 has reached the required level of maturity, and we hope to have a final 2.0 release by the end of the Summer.

02 July 2003 - HttpClient 2.0 Beta 2 released

This release contains some minor bug fixes and documentation enhancements. Most likely this will be the final beta release before 2.0 Release Candidate 1. As always thank you to the HttpClient users and developers for their efforts. Please download HttpClient 2.0 Beta 2 and enjoy.

25 May 2003 - HttpClient 2.0 Beta 1 released

This is the first feature-complete release of HttpClient 2.0. A lot of effort has been put into making this release functional, stable and reliable. Many thanks to everyone who contributed code, time and testing. Please download HttpClient 2.0 Beta 1 and enjoy.

Note: The binary distributions were updated on 2 June, 2003 to fix a problem with the original jar's MANIFEST.MF. Using the original HttpClient jar from within a servlet container or J2EE managed environment may have caused some problems.

25 February 2003 - HttpClient 2.0 Alpha 3 released

This is an intermediate alpha release. The build process used in the previous Alpha 2 changed from generating 4 build artifacts to a single distribution. This one zip contains everything: all the source, the binary jar, the logging dependancy, generated javadoc and required build files for Ant builds and JUnit tests.

"On e zip to rule them all, one zip to find them, one zip to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"

19 February, 2003 - Welcome new committer Michael Becke

Mike been an active contributor for many months. He has worked on a diverse range of problems with high quality results. In particular he is known for the massive HttpClient/HttpMultiClient merger that took place in December.

Welcome to Middle Earth Mike!

26 January 2003 - new mailing list archives

There are two new mailing list archives of the commons-httpclient-dev mailing list. It looks like someone up there is starting to like us!

25 January 2003 - HttpClient 2.0 Alpha 2 released

After many months and a great resurgence of developers, the new build of HttpClient is finally here. The new group of developers has done extensive refactoring to move the project along the new vision. The code base has reached a significant level of maturity and we expect that the beta builds will come quickly and that the final release of 2.0 is not far away!

Also check out the new HttpClient logo!

21 December, 2002 - Welcome new committer Oleg Kalnichevski

Oleg is the first committer to be voted in on the dedicated httpclient mailing list. Welcome to the fellowship Olegolas!

3 December, 2002 - HttpClient/HttpMultiClient merger

The initial merger of the top level classes HttpClient and HttpMultiClient is complete. Thanks for the patches and hard work from everyone particularly to Michale Becke for supplying the primary patch.

3 October, 2002 - commons-httpclient-dev mailing list

The mailing list was renamed to be commons-httpclient-dev . Sorry for the confusion.

If you wish to subscribe to this new mailing list, you can send mail to commons-httpclient-dev-subscribe@jakarta.apache.org

12 July, 2002 - HttpClient 2.0 Release Planning

The HttpClient project has go through some very active development leading up to Alpha 1 last year, but unfortunately lost momentum shortly after that. There is now renewed interest and greatly increased activity on the dev-commons mailing list. The committers and contributors are working on a new release plan for 2.0.

The 2.0 release plan is expected to be posted to the mailing list for review by July 22, 2002.