HttpComponents Project Status

HttpComponents HttpCore 5.1.x

HttpCore 5.1.x branch is the current feature development branch. The 5.x release series is expected to provide conditional conformance to RFC 3986 as well as a number of incremental functional enhancements and performance improvements.

This is likely to be the last release series with Java 1.7 support.

HttpComponents HttpCore 5.1.x

HttpCore 5.1.x branch is the current feature development branch. The 5.x release series is expected to provide conditional conformance to RFC 3986 as well as a number of incremental functional enhancements and performance improvements.

This is likely to be the last release series with Java 1.7 support.

HttpComponents HttpCore 5.0.x

HttpCore 5.0.x branch is considered stable and production ready. It is being actively maintained and supported. The 5.x release series provides comprehensive support for HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 protocol and full conformance with mandatory requirements of RFC 7230, RFC 7231, RFC 7540 and RFC 7541

HttpComponents HttpClient 5.0.x

HttpClient 5.0.x branch is considered stable and production ready. It is being actively maintained and supported. The 5.x release series provides comprehensive support for HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 protocol and full conformance with mandatory requirements of RFC 7230, RFC 7231, RFC 7540 and RFC 7541

HttpComponents HttpCore 4.4.x

HttpCore 4.4.x branch is considered stable and production ready. While being actively maintained and supported, the 4.x release series will be receiving fixes for major defects and security issues only.

Users of HttpCore 4.x are strongly encouraged to migrate to HttpCore 5.x

HttpComponents HttpClient 4.5.x

HttpClient 4.5.x branch is considered stable and production ready. While being actively maintained and supported, the 4.x release series will be receiving fixes for major defects and security issues only.

HttpComponents HttpAsyncClient 4.1.x

HttpAsyncClient 4.1.x branch is considered stable and production ready. While being actively maintained and supported, the 4.x release series will be receiving fixes for major defects and security issues only.

Users of HttpAsyncClient 4.x are strongly encouraged to migrate to HttpClient 5.x

Commons HttpClient 3.1.x

The 3.1 branch of Commons HttpClient is at the end of life. No more public releases are expected.