[erlang-questions] [ANN] Cowboy 0.6.0

[Loïc Hoguin]

Hello,

Long awaited Cowboy 0.6.0 is finally available.

Cowboy is a small, fast, modular HTTP server and socket acceptor pool. 
The 0.6.0 version is the last to include the socket acceptor pool 
directly in the project. Future versions will simply depend on the ranch 
project which is the socket acceptor pool code split from Cowboy.

Many additions have been made, along with a few bugfixes. The test suite 
has been completely reworked. There is still no user guides. Read more here:
   * https://github.com/extend/cowboy/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Effort is ongoing to add user guides to both Ranch and Cowboy projects, 
starting with Ranch. Examples will be added to both projects this summer.
   * https://gist.github.com/2397647
   * https://gist.github.com/2600398

Cowboy can be found at https://github.com/extend/cowboy

Next version will switch the acceptor code to Ranch. The dependence on 
the erlang:decode_packet/3 BIF will be removed. Methods and header names 
will be uniformized as binaries, there won't be a mix of atoms and 
binary names anymore. Various changes will be made to REST to improve 
its semantics with regards to full and partial updates. A new API to 
generate dispatch tables easily will be added.

This version includes an experimental and entirely undocumented HTTP 
client in cowboy_client. It uses binaries. We do not recommend using it 
at this point. We hope to add transfer encodings and websocket support 
in the next version and finally document it for 0.8.0.

As always I'm interested in any feedback you may have, good or bad. Feel 
free to drop me a mail about the project!

If you need features added, please open a ticket and describe *what you 
want to do with it*, chances are that you can already do it and you just 
don't know it.

Thanks.

-- 
Loïc Hoguin
Erlang Cowboy
Nine Nines