Netty 4.1.0.Beta2 released

by trustin
on 14-Aug-2014

Here's another beta release of Netty 4.1. This second beta version is packed with exciting features and improvements, as well as bug fixes. Please check out the list below; you might find something useful to you. :-)

New Features

#2757 - SOCKS protocol version 4a codec, by @bk1te
#2755 #2739 #2654 #2610 - Add more compression codecs: FastLZ, LZ4, LZF, and bzip2, by @idelpivnitskiy
#2741 #2763 - Enable transfer progress notification with ChannelProgressiveFutureListener for ChunkedInput, by @plucury
#2649 #2745 - Add TextHeaders.getAndRemove() methods for efficiency, by @plucury

Notable changes

#2758 - TextHeaders do not raise an exception anymore when no header is found but returns null.
#2766 - Rename SnappyFramedEncoder and SnappyFramedDecoder to SnappyFrameEncoder and SnappyFrameDecoder
#2688 - Improve the type safety of the DNS messages by using value types instead of pritimive values, by @timboudreau

Bug fixes

#2708 #2686 #2679 - Fix bugs in the DNS codec
#2354 - Fix a bug where AbstractConstant.compareTo() can return zero for two different constants
#2706 - Fix a bug where the PID detection fails when the current PID is greater than 65535

This release also includes all the improvements and bug fixes in 4.0.22.Final, of course.

Please visit our wiki page for the summary of all the changes since 4.0. You can also browse our issue tracker for the gory detail.

As always, please let us know if you find something to fix, improve, discuss, or even criticize. We love your feedback!

Thank You

Every idea and bug-report counts and so we thought it is worth mentioning those who helped in this area. Please report an unintended omission.