Netty 3.2.0.BETA1 released: zero-copy file transfer

["Trustin Lee (이희승)"]

Hi folks,

Netty 3.2.0.BETA1, the first beta release in 3.2 branch, has been
released after long awaits.

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 Related Project: Ning's Asynchronous HTTP Client
====================================================
Ning, one of the largest social platform provider, open-sourced their
asynchronous HTTP client which uses Netty (and its HTTP codec) as its
primary transport.  If you were using Netty directly to write an HTTP
client, you might want to give this library a try because its API is
very clean, simple and more HTTP-centric.

  * announcement: http://is.gd/9ImoW
  *  github repo: http://github.com/ning/async-http-client
  * google group: http://groups.google.com/group/asynchttpclient

Notable changes since 3.2.0.ALPHA4
==================================

  * Zero-copy file transfer: http://is.gd/8Z7dI
  * The number of I/O threads has been doubled for better out-of-
    the-box performance.
  * Fixed performance regression in the NIO transport
  * SslHandler became more secure by disabling renegotiation by default.

For the complete list of resolved issues, visit the issue tracker:

  * http://is.gd/9InDn

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
    * 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
=================
Since the HTTP tunneling transport has been rescheduled to the next
major feature release (3.3), all planned features have been implemented.
 Unless there is a critical issue, I will proceed to release candidate
phase.

Although 3.2 has been feature-frozen, the road map for 3.3 release is
wide open.  Please keep posting new ideas so that we can pick them up
for 3.3.

Cheers,
Trustin

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