The need for a 5.6 release is starting to become more urgent on my end. 1. The AWS Java SDK has added preview support for Apache 5.x that they want to release soon, and I want them to have idle timeout support from the start. I'm also a little concerned about some of the changes in TLS configuration behavior and I don't want them to have to straddle both 5.5 and 5.6.
2. I recently had to make an emergency patch for a team that was having latency issues that would have been fixed by the changes in 5.6--mainly idle timeout support, which makes it safe to raise the connection TTL. (Currently the only alternative is `pool.closeIdle()`, which we stopped using years ago because of performance issues, particularly with strict pools. Off-lock disposal might also help with this.) Everything looked good when I tested 5.6-alpha1, and we haven't merged many changes since then. Should we set an approximate date to release Core 5.4 and Client 5.6? Are there any unmerged PRs or additional features that we are definitely targeting for 5.6? Also, I just saw the email about the project website, I'll try to update it this week.
