Gnet v1.4.0, Lupin the Third

Features

• Support TCP_NODELAY socket option 525df8e
• Implement the lock-free queue for dispatching tasks faster (#181)

Enhancements

• Shrink the ring-buffer for saving memory 14fd04a
• Improve event poll fc042cc
• Improve the buffered channels 83b96ed
• Shrink the poll event list when it need to 1587638
• Improve the I/O in event-loop c554f4e
• Prioritize writable events 0f08c8f
• Make it more robust when running async jobs 6509b85
• Improve the poller waking logic 4d8accb

Bugfixes

• Re-enqueue the subsequent jobs when a error occurs 1af3f6c
• Close and release a socket when error occurs 9d86c92
• Check outbound buffer in case the socket has been released 035f614
• Avoid starving sockets e315252

Docs

• Enrich the doc about using UDP packets 0047c15
• Add more user cases of gnet 076b16c
• Update benchmark results 028bab2
• Update the description about ring-buffer 38b086a

Misc

• Add one more donor 12bfa5c
• Refine code 2aee5a9
• Add comments on those core code 2404edd
• Refine code and add comments 4ecbc50
• Add a warning comment for OnOpened 0bddd00

Gnet v1.3.0, Basilisk: Kôga ninpô chô

Features

• Determine logging mode by environment variable 2a7977f
• Support locking each I/O event-loop goroutine to an OS thread 6fd6413

Enhancements

• Improve the implementation of Least-Connections load-balancing b6a5f56
• Speed up the Least-Connections load-balancing b5fbbda
• Leverage system calls instead of net package to create listeners ccc8c64
• Refine the logging module f46da44
• Reorg errors in gnet 1c2f4b0
• Move logging module into internal package 00af504
• Take off the codec from eventloop bc85c34
• Refactor for buffer in Conn 455c5ae
• Refactor the load-balancing algorithm of source addr hash abbf582
• Make channel buffered if necessary 43f93ca

Bugfixes

• Fix a bug that led to negative counter of sync.WaitGroup on Windows 16ed4ab
• Add "windows" build tag under SO_REUSEPORT mode 7862f3e
• Supplement all the formal protocol formats of TCP and UDP 258253c
• Resolve the issue of closing one fd twice b5a5c71
• Fix concurrent loopCloseConn causes panic (#111)
• Eliminate duplicate calls to loopCloseConn a72f5fd

Docs

• Add a customized codec example (#90)
• Add placeholder for user cases and new relevant article 5197f18
• Renew results of techempower benchmark 61eee8f
• Add the list of donors 42e04dd
• Add xs:code 33a3e57
• Build an official website for gnet 49363cd
• Move the majority of content to website and simplify READMEs 903ff84

Misc

• Fix a typo and improve code comments 37d75cc
• Use SyscallError to wrap system calls errors c3907e0
• Refine go build tags of operating systems 637144b
• Format copyright info 6872c20
• Remove all examples from the source-code repo a704e06
• refine the usage of os.NewSyscallError 2d54d80

Gnet v1.2.0, Whisper of the Heart

Features

• Support graceful shutdown with OS signals (Fixes #82)

Enhancements

• Improve the creation processes of netpoller (Fixes #72) ccc6c25
• Reuse slice struct when resetting buffer 916c255
• Make a big allocation on ring-buffer at the first time 61963bd

Docs

• Update Features section in READMEs a0d53f5
• Add a new article about gnet d500bf4
• Supplement the missing acknowledgment item b031357

Misc

• Enable ReadN(int) to handle corner cases 2e89e25
• Leverage reviewdog as automated code review tool 5db42f9
• Use customized logger to log errors instead of std log package 3a69701
• Remove useless field of server 47817a0
• Unexport some errors 5287bd8

Gnet v1.1.0, Mobile Suit Gundam

Features

• Support new load-balancing algorithm of least-connections (#63)
• Support new load-balancing algorithm of source-addr-hash (#64)
• Add a new API to get the number of currently active connections 5ae4849

Bugfixes

• Fix an issue of not recycling byte-buffers 3b6edfd
• Fix a bug of reading data from the full ring-buffer a9caa26

Enhancements

• Improve several methods of ring-buffer 828e845
• Refine the range indexes when re-slicing 008c0c9
• Lazily allocate memory for ring-buffers 095ef52

Docs

• Switch go doc to pkg.go.dev b973741
• Add TechEmpower benchmarks 65d859b 9bd48a3 04b473e 3743d0f
• Improve some statements cc4ccd4

Misc

• Rename the eventloop_group.go to load_balancing.go 24203f4
• Add unit test for ring-buffer ecf3473 94246dc

Gnet v1.0.0, Neon Genesis Evangelion

Note

This is the first major release!

🚀 Features

• High-performance event-loop under networking model of multiple threads/goroutines
• Built-in load balancing algorithm: Round-Robin
• Built-in goroutine pool powered by the library ants
• Built-in memory pool with bytes powered by the library bytebufferpool
• Concise APIs
• Efficient memory usage: Ring-Buffer
• Supporting multiple protocols/IPC mechanism: TCP, UDP and Unix Domain Socket
• Supporting two event-driven mechanisms: epoll on Linux and kqueue on FreeBSD
• Supporting asynchronous write operation
• Flexible ticker event
• SO_REUSEPORT socket option
• Built-in multiple codecs to encode/decode network frames into/from TCP stream: LineBasedFrameCodec, DelimiterBasedFrameCodec, FixedLengthFrameCodec and LengthFieldBasedFrameCodec, referencing netty codec, also supporting customized codecs
• Supporting Windows platform with event-driven mechanism of IOCP Go stdlib: net
• Additional load-balancing algorithms: Random, Least-Connections, Consistent-hashing and so on
• TLS support
• Implementation of gnet Client