<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-jive-rendered-content"><p>Back at the end of July I mentioned that the team would have focussed on <a class="gmail-jive-link-external-small" href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=370" rel="nofollow">JSR-370</a>... and here I am few months later, happy to announce that the <em>first Beta release of RESTEasy 4</em> has been tagged over the weekend and it features <a class="gmail-jive-link-external-small" href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY-1679" rel="nofollow">JAX-RS 2.1 implementation</a>.</p><p>However
this beta comes with more additions... besides for the implementation
of the latest specification for RESTful webservices in Java, here is a
brief list of what's new:</p><ul><li><a class="gmail-jive-link-external-small" href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY-1025" rel="nofollow">New async / NIO http client engine</a> based on Apache HttpAsynchClient</li><li><a class="gmail-jive-link-external-small" href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY-1701" rel="nofollow">Extended server side async support and RxJava(2) integration</a></li><li><a class="gmail-jive-link-external-small" href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RESTEASY-1075" rel="nofollow">Support for redirect in JAX-RS client</a></li><li>JDK 9 GA compatibility</li></ul><p>The full release notes are <a class="gmail-jive-link-external-small" href="https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12335265&styleName=Text&projectId=12310560&Create=Create" rel="nofollow">available on jira</a>, the artifacts are built and published on <a class="gmail-jive-link-external-small" href="http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jboss/resteasy/resteasy-jaxrs-all/4.0.0.Beta1/" rel="nofollow">Maven repositories</a> and the sources are on <a class="gmail-jive-link-external-small" href="https://github.com/resteasy/Resteasy/tree/4.0.0.Beta1" rel="nofollow">GitHub</a> as usual ;-)</p><p>Please consider trying the latest release and providing feedback!</p><p>Thanks</p></div></div>