-+ Added HTTP 'protocol' version request option. (Ilia)
-+ Added optional class_name param to HttpMessage::fromString()
-+ Added HttpMessage::toMessageTypeObject(), HttpMessage::detach(), HttpMessage::prepend()
-+ Added Iterator interface to HttpMessage
-+ Added http_get_request_body_stream()
-
-- Don't pretend anylonger to understand 'compress' Content-Encoding.
-- Changed http_redirect() to PHPs behaviour by default.
-- Sending an User-Agent can now be prevented by setting 'useragent' to NULL or empty string. (Ilia)
-- Enable curl and zlib functionality by default in configure
-
-* Decreased the per-request calls to curl_easy_setopt()
-* Fixed gnutls ZTS build
-* Fixed some issues with http_get_request_body()
+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;
+ 0 means every handle is destroyed after usage (i.e. disabled),
+ -1 means virtually unlimited maximum amount of idle handles (default)