Am 2022-10-18 um 17:27 schrieb Oleg Kalnichevski:
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.
At some point in time we need to decide when to cut off 4.x. I don't see
a reason to keep this branch alive for the next five years. Given that
very little work on this project it would make sense to reduce the
amount of supported branches.
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