On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 20:23 +0530, Kaluva S wrote: > 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* >
Both branches will continue to be supported, especially 5.1 and 5.2. The reason for last releases being so far in the past is simply we have not been getting that many bug reports and there have been no major bug fixes that would warrant an immediate release. 5.1 and 5.2 releases though can be expected soon. > 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. We are all volunteers here. No one is gets paid for providing HttpClient support. We can all go away any time. That is the whole support plan. One thing I can guarantee however that there will be no feature development for 4.5 any more. We will likely be doing fixes for severe and security issues in 4.5 going forward. Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org
