- <state>stable</state>
- <notes>* Improved response performance
-+ Added "ipresolve" request option
-+ Added HTTP_IPRESOLVE_{ANY|V4|V6}, HttpRequest::IPRESOLVE_{ANY|V4|V6} constants
-+ Added missing HTTP_SSL_VERSION_{ANY|TLSv1|SSLv2|SSLv3}, HttpRequest::SSL_VERSION_{ANY|TLSv1|SSLv2|SSLv3} constants
-+ Added factory methods to HttpMessage, HttpQueryString, HttpRequest, HttpRequestDataShare, HttpDeflateStream, HttpInflateStream
-* Fixed aborted PUT request when empty put data was set with HttpRequest::setPutData()
-* Fixed crash when using non-associative arrays as request headers
-* Fixed crash when serializing incomplete HttpMessage objects
-* Fixed bug #9282: libcurl version error in configure (keith at iveys dot org)
-- Removed obsolete HTML function reference
+ <state>beta</state>
+ <notes>o Improved new persistent handles functionality
+ - Removed --enable-http-persistent-handles
+ + Added http.persistent.handles.limit system INI option which controls
+ the maximum amount of idle persistent handles kept around (per provider);
+ 0 means every handle is destroyed after usage (i.e. disabled),
+ -1 means virtually unlimited maximum amount of idle handles (default)