The Jakarta Commons HttpClient development team is pleased to announce the release of HttpClient 2.0 RC2. This release consists primarily of bug fixes and will hopefully be the last RC release. Please visit the HttpClient website <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/> and download this latest release.


The following changes have been made since Release Candidate 1:


* 23708 - Added try/catch blocks around calls to System.getProperty().

* 23431 - Added support for disabling transfer-encoding and content-type headers in
multi-part posts.


* 23663 - Changed HttpMethodBase to release its HttpConnection when a recoverable
exception occurs.


* Javadoc enhancements.

* 23284 - Fixed bug with URI.isIPv4address().

* 22969 - PostMethod#setParameter fixed to correctly overwrite existing parameters.

* 22970 - Fixed bug with PostMethod#removeParameter return value.

* Improved compliance to RFC 2617

* 22926 - Added support for digest auth MD5-sess.

* 22655 - Added support for stale digest nonce values.

* 22968 - HttpConnection.isResponseAvailable() made a little more robust, particularly when
used by HeadMethod.


* 22941 - Switched the order in which socket streams are closed: output stream closed first,
followed by input stream.


* Added debugging for connection reclaiming.

* Removed JCE initialization code specific to the Sun's implementation.

* Fixed problem of Basic, Digest & NTLM authentication schemes under certain circumstances
leaking passwords in clear text to the DEBUG log.


* Fixed the problem with incorrect selection of the proxy authentication realm.

* Changed URI.normalize() to ignore relative path normalization.


Thank you,


Commons HttpClient Development Team


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