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New features:

• Add possibility to enable preemptive Basic authentication (through the new preemptiveAuth flag)
• Warn if server does not send WWW-Authenticate header in 401 response
• Log request and response headers in debug mode

Maintenance:

• Add integration tests for Gradle 7.4.1 and 7.4.2
• Update dependencies

Maintenance:

• Publish signed artifacts to Gradle plugin portal
• Update dependencies

Bug fixes:

• Fix deadlock in DownloadExtension if max-workers equals 1 (thanks to @beatbrot for spotting this, see #205)

Maintenance:

• Update dependencies

Bug fixes:

• Fix configuration cache under Java 17

Maintenance:

• Add integration tests for Gradle 7.4
• Update dependencies

Bug fixes:

• Fix artifact on Gradle plugin portal

New features:

• Download multiple files in parallel
• Enable concurrent execution with other tasks in the build
• Write to disk asynchronously (and therefore in parallel to the download)
• Display destination file name in progress message
• Log retry attempts
• Retry on any exception but UnknownHostException
• Make download and verify extensions compatible with Kotlin and Gradle 8
• Add support for lazy evaluation of Kotlin lambdas
• Add Kotlin examples

Breaking changes:

• The plugin now requires Java 8 (or higher) and Gradle 5 (or higher)
• The authScheme property has been removed. The plugin is now able to detect the required scheme itself.
• Due to incompatibility with Gradle 8, the download and verify extensions now need to be called through their run method.
• Further information can be found in the migration guide

Maintenance:

• Add integration tests for all Gradle versions up to 7.3.3
• Upgrade Gradle to 6.9.1
• Upgrade Apache HttpClient to 5.1.2
• Migrate to JUnit 5 and AssertJ
• Enable jacoco for testkit tests
• Upload junit test reports on failure
• Use build script to apply functional tests to all Gradle versions

Others:

• Improve README
• Add new screencast

New features:

• Add integration tests for Gradle 6.7 up to 7.7.1

Bug fixes:

• Fix breaking change, add back constructor with one argument (#158, thanks to @sebastianhaeni)

New features:

• Add support for Gradle configuration cache (see #156). Thanks to @eskatos for his pull request (#157)!

Maintenance:

• Add integration tests for Gradle 6.2 up to 6.5.1
• Deprecate Gradle 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x
• Deprecate Java 7

Maintenance:

• Add integration tests for Gradle 6.1.1

Bug fixes:

• Allow files to be moved from one file system to another (see #146)