The sooner the better for a 4.x cut off IMO. There is a lot of complex code in total for versions 3, 4, 5, and very limited human resources.
Gary On Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 15:50 Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote: > 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. > > M > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org > >
