additional improvements for Kotlin users. In this alpha we're excited to skip-the-builder for
requests and remove a common source of non-null assertions (`!!`) on the response body.

The alpha releases in the 5.0.0 series have production-quality code and an unstable API. We expect
to make changes to the APIs introduced in 5.0.0-alpha.X. These releases are safe for production use

    }
    // Thread doesn't use client Dispatcher, since it is scoped potentially across clients via
    // ConnectionPool.
    taskRunner.newQueue().execute(name = connectionName, block = readerRunnable)
  }

  /** Merges [settings] into this peer's settings and sends them to the remote peer. */
  @Throws(IOException::class)
  fun setSettings(settings: Settings) {
    writer.withLock {
      this.withLock {
        if (isShutdown) {