All usages of Apache HTTP Components 4.x (org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient and org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore) have been removed from core and Blueprint sources. The Apache HTTP client implementations has been replaced with Spring’s RestTemplate.

Please note that the HTTP client implementation of the RestTemplate depends on the presence of HTTP client implementations in the application’s class path. For further information see the API documentation of ClientHttpRequestFactories#get(ClientHttpRequestFactorySettings).

Although the HTTP Components 4.x are not directly used by CMCC 12 code anymore, their dependency versions are still managed in the project, because they are still required by a number of frameworks that are used by the CoreMedia CMS implementations.