We are planning to migrate our old legacy code which uses *commons-httpclient-3.x* to *httpclient5.x* . But found that its going to be complete rewrite as lot of classes/packages removed.
Tried migrating to *httpclient4.x* , seems to be having lesser changes compared to *5.x* migration. But want to know the support plan for 4.x and 5.x from apache/community. As per maven repo, last release on 4.x was on *Oct - 2020* where as 5.x was *Jan - 2022* Can i expect fixes/code changes in 4.x for the next 4/5 years atleast if i use it instead of 5.x? Please share if anyone has idea on this.
