Netty 3.2.1.Final released: onward to 4!

[jfarcand]

Salut,

congratulation! I've just released Async Http Client 1.0.0 based that 
that release!

Great work as usual!

-- Jeanfrancois

On 10-06-23 3:04 AM, "이희승 (Trustin Lee)" wrote:
> Hi community,
>
> Netty 3.2.1.Final, the first official stable release in 3.2 branch, has
> been released.  (3.2.0.Final was tagged but not announced.)
>
> The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous, event-driven
> network application framework and tools for rapid development of
> maintainable, high-performance, high-scalability protocol servers and
> clients.
>
> In other words, Netty is an NIO client server framework that enables
> quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol
> servers and clients. It simplifies and streamlines network programming
> such as TCP and UDP socket servers
>
> Please visit our web site to get more information and download it.  Your
> feed back is more than appreciated - please visit the discussion forum
> and leave some comments and questions:
>
>    * http://www.jboss.org/netty/
>
> New Testimonial: Greg Haines from Ned Davis Research, Inc.
> ==========================================================
>> "Netty proved instrumental in the architecture of a replacement of an
>> existing high-speed server that parses and caches live streaming
>> quotes.  Under stress tests, the new server could parse and store in
>> excess of 260,000 quotes/sec, a figure not remotely possible with
>> blocking I/O.  Netty's well-documented API, excellent examples and
>> first-class support made development a pleasure and unlocked the
>> power of Java NIO.  It is, hands-down, my first choice for a
>> networking library."
>
> Read more at: http://jboss.org/netty/testimonials.html
>
> Notable changes since 3.1.5.GA
> ==============================
>
>    * Overall performance improvement in NIO transport
>
>    * @ChannelPipelineCoverage annotation has been deprecated by the
>      @Sharable annotation to reduce beginner confusion
>
>    * ChannelBuffer improvements
>      * New access methods for float, double, and char
>      * New method: ensureWritableBytes(int)
>      * New method: bytesBefore() for easier variable length string decode
>      * All string conversion methods now use Charset instead of String.
>
>    * Channel API improvements
>      * Zero-copy file transfer in NIO transport: http://is.gd/8Z7dI
>      * StaticChannelPipeline: an alternative pipeline implementation
>
>    * HTTP codec improvements
>      * WebSocket support (both version 75 and 76)
>      * Complete trailing header support
>      * More robust CookieDecoder
>      * More convenience methods in HttpMessage
>
>    * Zlib-based compression handlers
>    * RTSP codec
>
> For the full changelog, please visit the issue tracker:
>
>    * http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/NETTY
>
> Upcoming Releases
> =================
> I am thinking of beginning Netty 4.0 which addresses the fundamental
> issues such as:
>
>    * upstream/downstream naming confusion
>    * OutOfMemoryError caused by too fast writes
>    * incomplete custom thread naming
>    * incomplete HTTP tunneling transport
>
> along with the following new features:
>
>    * IP-level firewall
>    * traffic counter / shaper
>    * JMX integration
>    * HTTP and SOCKS proxy support on the client side
>
> Please feel free to join the community and enrich this list to let us
> make Netty even better network application framework!
>
>    * http://jboss.org/netty/community.html
>
> Cheers,
> Trustin
>