This is a minor maintenance release appropriate for all ServiceTalk users that contains several useful improvements and bug fixes. This release is expected to be a "drop-in" replacement for all prior 0.42.X releases.

Changes

New API

• https://github.com/apple/servicetalk/commit/78c3ee035cf7d0a33e8fb6818373fa9236338cf3 - Prepare for an upgrade to Netty 4.1.84 (#2392)
  • As part of this improvement, we added a new default method HttpHeadersFactory.validateNames() that tells users if the current HttpHeadersFactory is configured to validate header names or not.

Bug Fixes

• https://github.com/apple/servicetalk/commit/b6a0e6dac2d22c4222ad0e3d5b87c236283a0326 - StringIndexOutOfBoundsException while parsing cookies (#2397)
• https://github.com/apple/servicetalk/commit/6b17ccda54672e9ead7f8b37757b6bc129c162f0 - H2 TE header parsing bug fix (#2398)
• https://github.com/apple/servicetalk/commit/6e56db03543d8cea7d2dfa4f47d33d375193f434 - H2 conversion support OWS for connection header csv (#2400)
• https://github.com/apple/servicetalk/commit/17ec22dfff0499b7328b0d4adae82d495dc3bd39 - HeaderUtils: fix problems with missing space after a semicolon (#2402)
• https://github.com/apple/servicetalk/commit/5d22672b817065a3b5e76bb12e0fa8355a998319 - BeforeFinallyHttpOperator: support re-subscribe to the message body (#2409)

Improvements

• https://github.com/apple/servicetalk/commit/7fb6875bafe6437afb268b7449630f9609ac37a9 - WriteStreamSubscriber: respect termination of the publisher (#2387)"
• https://github.com/apple/servicetalk/commit/92e02c25904aec54847f762d2868fb8c334ce851 - Implement toString() for TestPublisherSubscriber#pollTerminal(...) (#2385)
• https://github.com/apple/servicetalk/commit/78c3ee035cf7d0a33e8fb6818373fa9236338cf3 - Prepare for an upgrade to Netty 4.1.84 (#2392)

Dependencies

• https://github.com/apple/servicetalk/commit/6acca41a8d2b448eccb6c3eb6a36089e9a406937 - Update Jackson 2.13.4.20221012 -> 2.13.4.20221013 (#2396)

Thank you

Every idea, review, and bug-report counts and so we thought it is worth mentioning those who helped in this area. Please report any unintended omission.

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