[ANN] Gun 2.0.0-rc.1

[Loïc Hoguin]

Hello!

Gun 2.0 has reached release candidate status! That means the interface 
should be stable now. All that's left before 2.0 is fixing any bugs that 
may arise and other non-intrusive improvements.

Gun is an asynchronous, always-connected client with support for 
HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, Websocket and more.

New Gun features include:

  * State of the art tunnel support (SOCKS5, HTTP/1.1 CONNECT, HTTP/2 
CONNECT, with support for multiple layers of any combination of proxies)

  * Gun can be used to send/receive raw data, so it can be used in a way 
similar to a TCP socket, except one with support for proxies and 
HTTP/1.1 Upgrade

  * Websocket over HTTP/2

  * A built-in cookie store

  * Graceful shutdown

  * Flow control for data messages

  * Event handlers (for metrics and instrumentation in general)

Please see the full announcement for more details:

   https://ninenines.eu/articles/gun-2.0.0-rc.1/

There is a video demonstrating the tunnel support in the link above. 
Please watch it! I will make more demos like this in the future so any 
feedback is welcome.

The announcement also mentions plans for HTTP/3 and QUIC. This will be 
my next big project, but how much time I spend on this will depend on 
funding. Main goal is getting HTTP/3 to work, regardless of the 
performance of the underlying QUIC stack. Any help with funding is 
appreciated.

Cheers,

-- 
Loïc Hoguin
https://ninenines.eu