v1.9.0

🚀 New features and improvements

• Provide an ability to specify proxy authentication (#46) @shchukax
• Allow payload body in GET requests (#55) @Wonno
• Add support for NTLM authorization (#48) @torrescd
• JENKINS-65458 - Add descriptions to HTTP Request Plugin arguments (#56) @Onyimatics

🐛 Bug fixes

• Store response headers in TreeMap with case insensitive comparator (#54) @Pawel-Cieslak

👻 Maintenance

• Enable Dependabot in the repository (#58) @oleg-nenashev
• Enable Release Drafter for changelog automation (#57) @oleg-nenashev
• Bump bom-2.204.x from 16 to 18 (#60) @dependabot

v1.8.27

• JENKINS-64054 Fix the configuration layout on Jenkins 2.264 and above
  • Thanks to Tim Jacomb for the pull request
• Refresh the plugin codebase, require Jenkins 2.204.6 or above
  • Thanks to Tim Jacomb for the pull request
• Migrate plugin documentation from Wiki to GitHub
  • Thanks to Brian Thompson for the pull requests (1, 2)
• Use GitHub as a source of documentation on the Jenkins plugin site
  • Thanks to Zbynek Konecny for the pull request
• Add GitHub Sponsors link

v1.8.26

• JENKINS-61863 Fixed backward compatibility, Job were not using default for wrapAsMultipart (true)

v1.8.25 (backward compatibility problem, see 1.8.26)

• Upload without multipart/form-data wrapping
  • Thanks to lyca for the pull request

v1.8.24

• Allow to use PUT for uploadFile
  • Thanks to Alexander Evseev for the pull request
• support for client-cert authentication
  • Thanks to Andrei Maus for the pull request
• Use HTTPS URLs in pom.xml
  • Thanks to daniel-beck for the pull request
• Thanks to René Scheibe
  • Code improvements, pull request
  • Upgrade minimum Jenkins & use Java 8, pull request

v1.8.23

• Add option to use system properties, default false
  • Break old jobs will be deserialized as true(as it was before), new jobs will use as false, workflow jobs(old and new) will use default as false
  • Thanks to Tomas Bezdek for the pull request
• JENKINS-55977 Check for null entity
• Make ResponseContentSupplier public #37
• JENKINS-57318 fix for null value in validResponseCodes #38
• Support file uploads
  • Thanks to Christian Pönisch for the pull request

v1.8.21

• JENKINS-44439 - Add a "quiet mode"
  • Thanks to llamahunter for the pull request
• Add support for http proxy
  • Thanks to benjaminrene for the pull request
• Added support for OPTIONS Http method
  • Thanks to clausfod for the pull request

v1.8.20

• JENKINS-44727 - Ignore ssl check with Java8
  • Thanks to nrayapati for the pull request

v1.8.18

• JENKINS-36486 - Support to execution in slave node
• JENKINS-43147 - Added support to send body in DELETE method
• JENKINS-36760 - Supported Jenkins credentials as basic credential
  • Deprecated basic credentials in global configuration
• JENKINS-37627 - Added parameter 'outputFile' to save response
  • Added access to InputStream in response.getContentStream()
  • Added ResponseHandle to better control how response is interpreted
    • STRING(default to keep compatibility) will transform the response in string
    • NONE will not read the response content and will close the response after the job execution
    • LEAVE_OPEN will not read the response content but leaves an open inputStream to be read outside the job execution. Using LEAVE_OPEN it is your responsibility to close it after use. 'response.close();'
• JENKINS-43273 - Error using script generator

v1.8.17

• JENKINS-42303 - handshake error with aws
  • HTTPCLIENT-1726 Fixed with an upgrade of httpclient from 4.5.1 to 4.5.3
• JENKINS-41934 Invalid certificate doesn't fail job
  • Added parameter 'ignoreSslErrors' to ignore certificate errors, default false but when it deserialize old jobs it uses true to keep compatibility. Breaks default for pipeline, should add ignoreSslErrors:true on invalid certificates requests or import into a keystore
• Fixed warns and deprecateds