The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 4.4.5 GA release of HttpComponents Core. This is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues discovered since 4.4.4. Please note that as of 4.4 HttpCore requires Java 1.6 or newer. Download - <http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi> Release notes - <http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES.txt> HttpComponents site - <http://hc.apache.org/> About HttpComponents Core HttpCore is a set of low level HTTP transport components that can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint. HttpCore supports two I/O models: a blocking I/O model based on the classic Java I/O and a non-blocking, event driven I/O model based on Java NIO.