Skip to content

Conversation

@renovate
Copy link
Contributor

@renovate renovate bot commented Jan 16, 2026

This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Confidence
org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 (source) 5.4.15.6 age confidence

Release Notes

apache/httpcomponents-client (org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5)

v5.6

This is the first ALPHA release in the 5.6 release series. It adds several features
such as transport content decompression and content compression for the async transport,
support for Unix sockets, experimental support for SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication scheme,
and Micrometer/OTel observations & metrics.

Commons Compress, Brotli codec, and ZStd codec are optional dependencies and get
wired into the execution pipeline only if present on the classpath.

Notable changes and features included in the 5.6 series:

  • Unix domain socket support.

  • Support for pluggable content codecs via Commons-Compress in the classic transport.
    (optional).

  • Support for transparent content decompression and content compression with deflate,
    gzip, zstd (optional), and brotli (optional) codecs in the async transport.

  • Micrometer/OTel observations & metrics (optinal).

  • Off-lock connection disposal by the classic pooling connection manager. Experimental.

  • SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication scheme (RFC 7804). Experimental.

  • Request Priority support (RFC 9218). Experimental.

Compatibility notes:

  • As of this version, HttpClient uses BUILTIN HostnameVerificationPolicy by default, delegating
    host verification to JSSE security manager. One must explicitly configure the TLS strategy
    to continue using the hostname verifier shipped with HttpClient.

  • Five-second TCP keep-alive is now enabled by default.

v5.5

This is the first GA release in the 5.5 release series. This release finalizes the 5.5
APIs and adds several experimental features and improvements, such as request multiplexing
over a shared HTTP/2 connection and the Classic API facade acting as a compatibility
bridge between classic I/O client services and the asynchronous message transport used
internally.

Notable changes and features included in the 5.5 series:

  • Improved conformance to RFC 7616 (HTTP Digest Access Authentication).

  • The connection pool implementation acts as a caching facade in front of a standard
    managed connection pool and shares already leased connections to multiplex message
    exchanges over active HTTP/2 connections. Experimental.

  • Extended Auth API and improved authentication protocol logic to support mutual
    authentication.

  • The Classic API facade now acts as a compatibility bridge between the classic I/O client
    services (based on the standard InputStream / OutputStream model) and the asynchronous
    message transport used internally. This is experimental.

  • HTTP/2 support for the Fluent Facade (via Classic API facade). This is experimental.

Compatibility notes:

  • As of this release, HttpClient does not automatically execute redirects if the original
    request manually added headers that are considered sensitive.

Configuration

📅 Schedule: Branch creation - Between 04:00 PM and 07:59 PM, Monday through Friday ( * 16-19 * * 1-5 ) in timezone Europe/London, Automerge - Between 02:00 PM and 06:59 PM, Monday through Thursday ( * 14-18 * * 1-4 ) in timezone Europe/London.

🚦 Automerge: Enabled.

Rebasing: Whenever PR is behind base branch, or you tick the rebase/retry checkbox.

🔕 Ignore: Close this PR and you won't be reminded about this update again.


  • If you want to rebase/retry this PR, check this box

This PR was generated by Mend Renovate. View the repository job log.

@renovate renovate bot enabled auto-merge (squash) January 16, 2026 17:03
@renovate renovate bot force-pushed the renovate/org.apache.httpcomponents.client5-httpclient5-5.x branch 11 times, most recently from b3f46fb to 00c69f0 Compare January 20, 2026 20:18
@JamesCollettCGI JamesCollettCGI changed the title fix(deps): update dependency org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 to v5.6 fix(deps): Update dependency org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 to v5.6 Jan 21, 2026
@renovate renovate bot force-pushed the renovate/org.apache.httpcomponents.client5-httpclient5-5.x branch from 00c69f0 to c77dc33 Compare January 21, 2026 17:33
@renovate renovate bot force-pushed the renovate/org.apache.httpcomponents.client5-httpclient5-5.x branch from c77dc33 to cd98e04 Compare January 21, 2026 22:32
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

0 participants