Thank you so much for the clarification Oleg. I got the info I need. So I can safely migrate to 4.x without much hassle.
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 8:57 PM Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > >
