*  Upgrade: [Okio 3.9.0][okio_3_9_0].

 *  Upgrade: [Kotlin 1.9.23][kotlin_1_9_23].

 *  Upgrade: [Unicode® IDNA 15.1.0][idna_15_1_0]


## Version 5.0.0-alpha.12

_2023-12-17_

We took too long to cut this release and there's a lot of changes in it. We've been busy.

Although this release is labeled _alpha_, the only unstable thing in it is our new APIs. This

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# Recipes

We've written some recipes that demonstrate how to solve common problems with OkHttp. Read through them to learn about how everything works together. Cut-and-paste these examples freely; that's what they're for.

### Synchronous Get ([.kt][SynchronousGetKotlin], [.java][SynchronousGetJava])

Download a file, print its headers, and print its response body as a string.