On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 12:36 -0700, Noah Levitt wrote: > The timeline for 4.4 might have some bearing on this. Do we have an > idea approximately when to expect 4.4 final? > > Noah >
No time line yet. However given a fairly small set of features planned for 4.4 (Integrated Windows Auth and the latest cookie spec) 4.4 development is likely to take about 3 to 6 months. Oleg > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Java 1.5 compatibility has become increasing difficult to maintain and > > increasing pointless on top of that. We, as a project, have been > > thinking about upgrading minimal JRE level requirement for the > > HttpClient 4.4 branch to something newer. While Java 1.6 might be a > > reasonable and a conservative choice in terms of stability and adoption, > > it actually brings little in terms of new features we could make use of > > in HttpClient. Besides, Java 1.6 is officially end of life. So, we might > > as well consider upgrading to Java 1.7 which would give us NIO2, full > > support for 'try with resources', and probably some other features. > > > > Please let us know what you think and respond to this poll. > > > > All users of HttpClient are encouraged to participate. Every vote will > > count. > > > > ------------------- > > [ ] keep Java 1.5 compatibility: no good reason to upgrade. > > [ ] upgrade to Java 1.6: one step at a time. > > [ ] upgrade to Java 1.7: new features are more important. > > ------------------- > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org