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+=========
+
+0.4.0
+-----
+
+* Set the cowboy_listener process priority to high
+
+ As it is the central process used by all incoming requests
+ we need to set its priority to high to avoid timeouts that
+ would happen otherwise when reaching a huge number of
+ concurrent requests.
+
+* Add cowboy:child_spec/6 for embedding in other applications
+
+* Add cowboy_http_rest, an experimental REST protocol support
+
+ Based on the Webmachine diagram and documentation. It is a
+ new implementation, not a port, therefore a few changes have
+ been made. However all the callback names are the same and
+ should behave similarly to Webmachine.
+
+ There is currently no documentation other than the Webmachine
+ resource documentation and the comments found in cowboy_http_rest,
+ which itself should be fairly easy to read and understand.
+
+* Add cowboy_bstr module for binary strings related functions
+
+* Add cowboy_http module for HTTP parsing functions
+
+ This module so far contains various functions for HTTP header
+ parsing along with URL encoding and decoding.
+
+* Remove quoted from the default dependencies
+
+ This should make Cowboy much easier to compile and use by default.
+ It is of course still possible to use quoted as your URL decoding
+ library in Cowboy thanks to the newly added urldecode option.
+
+* Fix supervisor spec for non dynamic modules to allow upgrades to complete
+
+* Add cowboy:accept_ack/1 for a cleaner handling of the shoot message
+
+ Before, when the listener accepted a connection, the newly created
+ process was waiting for a message containing the atom 'shoot' before
+ proceeding. This has been replaced by the cowboy:accept_ack/1 function.
+
+ This function should be used where 'shoot' was received because the
+ contents of the message have changed (and could change again in the
+ distant future).
+
+* Update binary parsing expressions to avoid hype crashes
+
+ More specifically, /bits was replaced by /binary.
+
+* Rename the type cowboy_dispatcher:path_tokens/0 to :tokens/0
+
+* Add cacertfile configuration option to cowboy_ssl_transport
+
+* Add cowboy_protocol behaviour
+
+* Remove -Wbehaviours dialyzer option unavailable in R15B
+
+* Many tests and specs improvements
+
+### cowboy_http_req
+
+* Fix a crash when reading the request body
+
+* Add parse_header/2 and parse_header/3
+
+ The following headers can now be semantically parsed: Connection, Accept,
+ Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Content-Length,
+ Content-Type, If-Match, If-None-Match, If-Modified-Since,
+ If-Unmodified-Since, Upgrade
+
+* Add set_resp_header/3, set_resp_cookie/4 and set_resp_body/2
+
+ These functions allow handlers to set response headers and body
+ without having to reply directly.
+
+* Add peer_addr/1
+
+ This function tries to guess the real peer IP based on the HTTP
+ headers received.
+
+* Add meta/2 and meta/3 to save useful protocol information
+
+ Currently used to save the Websocket protocol version currently used,
+ and to save request information in the REST protocol handler.
+
+* Add reply/2 and reply/3 aliases to reply/4
+
+* Add a cowboy_http_req:upgrade_reply/3 function
+
+### cowboy_http_protocol
+
+* Add the {urldecode, fun urldecode/2} option
+
+ Added when quoted was removed from the default build. Can be used to
+ tell Cowboy to use quoted or any other URL decoding routine.
+
+* Add the max_keepalive option
+
+* Add the max_line_length option
+
+* Allow HTTP handlers to stop during init/3
+
+ To do so they can return {shutdown, Req, State}.
+
+* Add loops support in HTTP handlers for proper long-polling support
+
+ A loop can be entered by returning either of {loop, Req, State},
+ {loop, Req, State, hibernate}, {loop, Req, State, Timeout} or
+ {loop, Req, State, Timeout, hibernate} from init/3.
+
+ Loops are useful when we cannot reply immediately and instead
+ are waiting for an Erlang message to be able to complete the request,
+ as would typically be done for long-polling.
+
+ Loop support in the protocol means that timeouts and hibernating
+ are well tested and handled so you can use those options without
+ worrying. It is recommended to set the timeout option.
+
+ When a loop is started, handle/2 will never be called so it does
+ not need to be defined. When the request process receives an Erlang
+ message, it will call the info/3 function with the message as the
+ first argument.
+
+ Like in OTP, you do need to set timeout and hibernate again when
+ returning from info/3 to enable them until the next call.
+
+* Fix a crash when the server is sent HTTP responses
+
+* Fix HTTP timeouts handling when the Request-Line wasn't received
+
+* Fix the handling of the max number of empty lines between requests
+
+* Fix the handling of HEAD requests
+
+* Fix HTTP/1.0 Host header handling
+
+* Reply status 400 if we receive an unexpected value or error for headers
+
+* Properly close when the application sends "Connection: close" header
+
+* Close HTTP connections on all errors
+
+* Improve the error message for HTTP handlers
+
+### cowboy_http_websocket
+
+* Add websocket support for all versions up to RFC 6455
+
+ Support isn't perfect yet according to the specifications, but
+ is working against all currently known client implementations.
+
+* Allow websocket_init/3 to return with the hibernate option set
+
+* Add {shutdown, Req} return value to websocket_init/3 to fail an upgrade
+
+* Fix websocket timeout handling
+
+* Fix error messages: wrong callback name was reported on error
+
+* Fix byte-by-byte websocket handling
+
+* Fix an issue when using hixie-76 with certain proxies
+
+* Fix a crash in the hixie-76 handshake
+
+* Fix the handshake when SSL is used on port 443
+
+* Fix a crash in the handshake when cowboy_http_req:compact/1 is used
+
+* Fix handshake when a query string is present
+
+* Fix a crash when the Upgrade header contains more than one token
+
+0.2.0
+-----
+
+* Initial release.