v2.8.0 (2024-04-30)

@jeffdik

Dep/s: http-kit is on Clojars.
Versioning: http-kit uses Break Versioning.

This is a major feature and maintenance release. As always, please test carefully and report any unexpected problems, thank you! 🙏

Highlights include:

Performance improvements, incl. auto JVM 21+ virtual threads when available.
Support for the latest Ring async and WebSocket APIs.
A comprehensive new benchmark suite for http-kit server and client.
>15 fixes and numerous other improvements

See linked commits below for details.

A huge thanks to the 10 contributors who helped create this release!

Changes since `v2.7.0` (2023-06-30)

6db3f0f [mod] Bump minimum Java version: 7->8
If using AOT/uberjar, please ensure that you build with the lowest Java version that you'd like to support.

2474302 [fix] [client] [#535] [#536] Fix handling of some bad ssl certificates (@jeffdik)
b9f84d5 [fix] [client] [#523] Basic support for trailer section in chunked encoding responses
b45725f [fix] [server] [#543] Migrate away from SimpleDateFormat to java.time, fixes native-image issue (@borkdude)
45a4b53 [fix] [server] [#537] Respond with Connection: Close when appropriate
126d5df [fix] [client] [#528] Possible fix for broken insecure? client option
9be19c0 [fix] [client] [#528] Re-enable insecure SSL client tests disabled for #513
de3596a [fix] [server] [#539] [#540] Prevent race condition in TimerService (@weavejester)
99de95b [fix] [server] [#552] [#553] Bad arg order causing broken loggers config (@frwdrik)
2dcfa29 [fix] [server] [#546] Fix Jetty server SNI check in client tests (@weavejester)
ed6833e [fix] [client] [#560] Attempted fix to allow SSL with IP host
48cb7fe [fix] [server] [#559] Add missing Content-Type header to last-resort error responses
bfba515 [fix] [client] Ignore nil clients, even when they're delay-wrapped
8738140 [fix] [server] [#551] Unintentional code duplication (@slipset)
491e19c [fix] [tests] Flaky timing in CI
e2ca731 [fix] Resolve Lein composite profile warning

c91a752 [new] [server] [#546] Add support for Ring WebSocket API (@weavejester)
6652df8 [new] [server] [#394] [#538] Add support for Ring async handler arities (@weavejester)
47129af [new] [server] Refactor worker threading, use virtual threads by default on JVM 21+
e38169b [new] [client] Refactor worker threading, use virtual threads by default on JVM 21+
741eed8 [new] [tests] Add new benchmark suite
2a74dbf [new] [tests] Add first benchmark results
af5550f [new] [client] [#554] Support non-ASCII characters on multipart filenames (@davartens)
41940f3 [new] [client] [server] Add public worker constructors
f267426 [new] [client] [server] utils/new-worker improvements
890de2d [new] [client] [#561] [#562] Add :nested-param-style option to client requests (@wevre)

5379f62 [new] [server] [#546] Also test without support for Ring WebSocket API
4813a17 [nop] [#530] [#531] Update dep: http.async.client (@NoahTheDuke)
9877bca [nop] [client] Don't submit tasks to closed pool
92fc3fe [wiki] Add client page from legacy website (@harold)
9b131e2 [wiki] Clean-up, update client docs
Updated dependencies

890de2d [new] [client] [#561] [#562] Add :nested-param-style option to client requests (@wevre)