# History, Design and Future

Some time ago, <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/3#issuecomment-454956920" class="external-link" target="_blank">a **FastAPI** user asked</a>:

> What’s the history of this project? It seems to have come from nowhere to awesome in a few weeks [...]

Here's a little bit of that history.

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 [r8_proguard]: https://square.github.io/okhttp/features/r8_proguard/
 [recipes]: https://square.github.io/okhttp/recipes/
 [snap]: https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/

                display = ParameterDisplay.PROMPT,
                allowEmpty = true
            )
        }

        cleanup {
            history(days = 180)
        }

        this.init()
    }
}

class PublishFinalRelease(branch: VersionedSettingsBranch) : PublishRelease(
    promotedBranch = branch.branchName,
    prepTask = "prepFinalRelease",

Quick Build
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If you want to bootstrap Maven, you'll need:
- Java 17+
- Maven 3.6.3 or later
- Run Maven, specifying a location into which the completed Maven distro should be installed:
    ```
    mvn -DdistributionTargetDir="$HOME/app/maven/apache-maven-4.0.x-SNAPSHOT" clean package
    ```


[home]: https://maven.apache.org/
[jira]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/MNG/

These modifications and conversions are handled by a variety of libraries that
have different security properties and provide different levels of confidence
when dealing with untrusted data. Based on the security history of these
libraries we consider that it is safe to work with untrusted inputs for PNG,
BMP, GIF, WAV, RAW, RAW\_PADDED, CSV and PROTO formats. All other input formats,

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