Ran all the tests, looks good.

On Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/06/2025 17:08, Ryan Schmitt wrote:
> > I'd prefer a GA release this month.
> >
>
> Please test [1] and [2]. Once you confirm everything works as expected,
> I will put HttpCore 5.4 GA and HttpClient 5.6 GA on vote.
>
> Oleg
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/tree/5.4.x
> [2] https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/tree/5.6.x
>
>
>
> > On Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Ryan
> >>
> >> We can branch out at 5.6-alpha1, cherry-pick bug fixes and release it as
> >> 5.6 GA this month or we can do 5.6-alpha2 this month and release 5.6 GA
> >> in January.
> >>
> >> Let me know what you would prefer.
> >>
> >> Oleg
> >>
> >> On 12/05/2025 19:41, Ryan Schmitt wrote:
> >>> I can do the same thing with basically arbitrary commits. I'll test the
> >>> current master branches presently.
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM Gary Gregory <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I could test a new alpha or beta in a branch in our CI at work as a
> >>>> sanity check.
> >>>>
> >>>> Gary
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2025, 23:40 Ryan Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> There are some changes merged in since the alpha release, including a
> >> new
> >>>>> optional dependency in the client (caffeine). I think we can either
> >>>> release
> >>>>> the current alphas as stable versions, or do new beta releases off of
> >> the
> >>>>> current master branches. I'm leaning towards the latter, since it
> >> brings
> >>>> in
> >>>>> some bug fixes, the heavily revised RouteSegmentedConnPool, RFC6874
> >> zone
> >>>>> identifiers, and a few other things.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Tue, 2025-12-02 at 18:10 -0800, Ryan Schmitt wrote:
> >>>>>>> The need for a 5.6 release is starting to become more urgent on my
> >>>>>>> end.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 1. The AWS Java SDK has added preview support for Apache 5.x that
> >>>>>>> they want
> >>>>>>> to release soon, and I want them to have idle timeout support from
> >>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>> start. I'm also a little concerned about some of the changes in TLS
> >>>>>>> configuration behavior and I don't want them to have to straddle
> both
> >>>>>>> 5.5
> >>>>>>> and 5.6.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 2. I recently had to make an emergency patch for a team that was
> >>>>>>> having
> >>>>>>> latency issues that would have been fixed by the changes in 5.6--
> >>>>>>> mainly
> >>>>>>> idle timeout support, which makes it safe to raise the connection
> >>>>>>> TTL.
> >>>>>>> (Currently the only alternative is `pool.closeIdle()`, which we
> >>>>>>> stopped
> >>>>>>> using years ago because of performance issues, particularly with
> >>>>>>> strict
> >>>>>>> pools. Off-lock disposal might also help with this.)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Everything looked good when I tested 5.6-alpha1, and we haven't
> >>>>>>> merged many
> >>>>>>> changes since then. Should we set an approximate date to release
> Core
> >>>>>>> 5.4
> >>>>>>> and Client 5.6? Are there any unmerged PRs or additional features
> >>>>>>> that we
> >>>>>>> are definitely targeting for 5.6?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ryan
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Just say when you need it and I will put it no vote and vote in
> favor.
> >>>>>> If there is enough time we can also do one BETA in between.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Oleg
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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