## 4.4.0
  - Adding a new option `http_compression` for sending compressed payload with the `Content-Encoding: gzip` header to the configured http endpoint #66

## 4.3.4
 - Docs fixes

## 4.3.3
 - Docs: Add plugin description.

## 4.3.2
 - Docs: Update plugin title.

## 4.3.1
 - Fix deadlock that could occur in certain situations. All users should upgrade to the latest version.
   This deadlock was caused by certain async HTTP APIs being called out of order thus creating a race.

## 4.3.0
 - Add `user` and `password` options to support HTTP basic auth
 
## 4.2.0
 - Allow nested array in field definition, See https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-http/pull/53

## 4.1.0
 - Allow nested field definitions in `mappings`

## 4.0.0
 - Major overhaul of internals, adds new retry options
 - Allow users to specify non-standard response codes as ignorable
 - Set concurrency level to shared allowing for greater efficiency across threads
 
## 3.1.1
  - Relax constraint on logstash-core-plugin-api to >= 1.60 <= 2.99

## 3.1.0
 - breaking,config: Remove deprecated config 'verify_ssl'. Please use 'ssl_certificate_validation'.

## 3.0.1
 - Republish all the gems under jruby.

## 3.0.0
 - Update the plugin to the version 2.0 of the plugin api, this change is required for Logstash 5.0 compatibility. See https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/5141

## 2.1.3
 - Depend on logstash-core-plugin-api instead of logstash-core, removing the need to mass update plugins on major releases of logstash

## 2.1.2
 - New dependency requirements for logstash-core for the 5.0 release

## 2.1.1
 - Require http_client mixin with better keepalive handling


## 2.1.0
 - Properly close the client on #close
 - Optimized execution for Logstash 2.2 ng pipeline

## 2.0.5
 - fixed memory leak

## 2.0.3
 - fixed potential race condition on async callbacks
 - silenced specs equest logs and other spec robustness fixes

## 2.0.0
 - Plugins were updated to follow the new shutdown semantic, this mainly allows Logstash to instruct input plugins to terminate gracefully,
   instead of using Thread.raise on the plugins' threads. Ref: https://github.com/elastic/logstash/pull/3895
 - Dependency on logstash-core update to 2.0

## 1.1.0
 - Concurrent execution
 - Add many HTTP options via the http_client mixin
 - Switch to manticore as HTTP Client
