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Apache Axis2/C Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Axis2/C
version 2.0.0.

You can download this release from https://github.com/apache/axis-axis2-c-core

Key Features
============

   1. Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and
      request response messaging (In-Out)

   2. Client APIs: Easy to use service client API and
      more advanced operation client API

   3. Transports supported: HTTP
          * Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server
          * Apache2 httpd module called mod_axis2 for server side
          * Client transport with ability to enable SSL support
          * Basic HTTP Authentication
          * Digest HTTP Authentication

   4. Transports supported: HTTPS
          * HTTPS Transport implementation using OpenSSL
          * SNI (Server Name Indication) support

   5. Transports supported: HTTP/2 (NEW in 2.0.0)
          * HTTP/2 transport for JSON requests via Apache mod_http2
          * Stream multiplexing and header compression
          * Large payload support (50MB+)

   6. Transport proxy support (HTTP)
          * Proxy Authentication (Basic/Digest)

   7. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model.

   8. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and
      final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module.

   9. MTOM/XOP support.

  10. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages;
      This has complete XML infoset support.

  11. XPath support for Axiom XML Object model

  12. XML parser abstraction
          * Libxml2 wrapper
          * Guththila pull parser support

  13. JSON support (NEW in 2.0.0)
          * JSON message processing via json-c library
          * JSON-RPC message receiver

  14. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying
      services and modules

  15. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime
      (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages)

  16. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic
      Axis2/C runtime information (corresponding contexts to map to
      each level of description hierarchy)

  17. Message receiver abstraction
          * Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
          * JSON-RPC message receiver (NEW in 2.0.0)

  18. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given
      WSDL (based on Java tool)
          * Axis Data Binding (ADB) support

  19. Native C WSDL2C code generator (NEW in 2.0.0)
          * Pure C implementation with libxml2 dependency only
          * Fast, reliable WSDL to C code generation

  20. REST support (more POX like) using HTTP POST, GET, HEAD, PUT and DELETE
          * Support for RESTful Services

  21. Comprehensive documentation
          * Axis2/C Manual
          * MkDocs-based documentation site

  22. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension

  23. HTTP KeepAlive support.

  24. HTTP session handling.

  25. Security hardening (NEW in 2.0.0)
          * SSL/TLS peer name validation enabled by default
          * JSON payload size and depth limits


Major Changes Since Last Release
================================

Version 2.0.0 includes 17 years of accumulated fixes and improvements since
version 1.6.0 (2009). This release resolves over 115 issues from the Jira
issue tracker.

New Features:
   * HTTP/2 transport support for JSON requests (AXIS2C-1707)
   * JSON support for Axis2/C (AXIS2C-1645)
   * SNI (Server Name Indication) support (AXIS2C-1706)
   * Clone method for axiom_node (AXIS2C-677)
   * MTOM support for code generation with adb (AXIS2C-1181)
   * Server bind to custom address (AXIS2C-1383, AXIS2C-1484)

Improvements:
   * Modern security hardening (AXIS2C-1708)
   * Enhanced REST support (AXIS2C-1636)
   * HTTP header reading performance (AXIS2C-1480)
   * Custom HTTP User-Agent header (AXIS2C-1612)
   * Base64 whitespace handling (AXIS2C-1666)
   * Multi-threading client transport optimization (AXIS2C-1328)
   * Prevention of name clashes with multiple services (AXIS2C-1330)

Bug Fixes (115 issues resolved):
   * Numerous memory leak fixes throughout the codebase
   * SSL/TLS connection handling improvements
   * WSDL2C code generation fixes
   * HTTP transport reliability improvements
   * XML serialization/deserialization fixes
   * Cookie handling fixes
   * Proxy authentication fixes
   * macOS and FreeBSD build fixes

Removed:
   * TCP transport (unmaintained, use HTTP/2 instead)
   * libcurl-based client transport (replaced by native HTTP client)
   * CGI interface (unmaintained)
   * IIS/ISAPI integration (unmaintained since 2009, use WSL2 instead)
   * AMQP transport (experimental, unmaintained)

For the complete list of resolved issues, see:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/AXIS2C/versions/12315139


We welcome your feedback on this implementation.

Thanks for your interest in Axis2/C!

-- Apache Axis2/C Team --