# Aerospike Java Client Release 4.4.1 (May 16, 2019)

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-java-client-release-4-4-1-may-16-2019/6253>\
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**Created:** [May 16, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-java-client-release-4-4-1-may-16-2019/6253 "2019-05-16T20:31:16Z")\
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[Aerospike Java client version 4.4.1](http://www.aerospike.com/download/client/java/notes.html#4.4.1) was released on May 16, 2019.

This minor release adds several new features and fixes important bugs.

#### Features

- Add policy socketTimeout, totalTimeout and maxRetries to exception messages when available.
- Wrap socket IOException in an AerospikeException.Connection.
- Add --sendKey command line argument to benchmarks.

#### Fixes

- CLIENT-1075 Retry when socket errors occur during user authentication on newly created connections.
- CLIENT-1077 Retry when current node has exhausted all connections.
- Remove references to old deprecated SSLv3 protocol.