v1.0.0

This is the first stable version of Hummingbird the lightweight and flexible HTTP server.

Hummingbird provides an HTTP server with

• A router for sending requests to the correct endpoint handler
• Middleware framework for processing requests and responses. CORS, Logging and metrics middlewares are already provided.
• TLS/HTTP2 support
• Request decoding, response encoding using Codable.
• Basic connection pool management
• Persistent data framework. A memory version is available with Hummingbird. Redis and Fluent versions are available from hummingbird-redis and hummingbird-fluent packages.

Hummingbird Foundation provides

• Codable support for JSON and URLEncoded forms.
• File serving and writing

Hummingbird Jobs provides

• A framework for defining workloads that can be offloaded to separate servers.
• Comes with an implementation that uses memory for storing and running the jobs locally.
• A Redis version is available from hummingbird-redis.

HummingbirdXCT provides

• A testing framework for Hummingbird. Making it easier to test your application.

Changes since v1.0.0-rc.1

• Add idle state handler configuration
• Ensure stored endpoint always starts with a "/" and never ends with a "/".
• Extend Substring to conform with HBResponseGenerator.
• Make HBEnvironment Sendable.

v1.0.0 Release Candidate 1

Breaking Changes

• Split HBRouter into two types: HBRouter which processes requests and HBRouterBuilder which is used to build an HBRouter. PR #156
• The router is now run before any middleware. PR #156
• XCTExecute can now return values from its closure and throw errors. PR #157

Patch Changes

• Do deep copy of middleware chain, when creating new HBRouterGroup.

v1.0.0 Alpha 2

Major release changes

• EventLoopStorage has been removed. The one use case for it has been removed.

Minor release changes

• Hummingbird now requires Swift 5.5 (inline with SwiftNIO)
• HBRequest, HBResponse and related types conform to Sendable

Patch release changes

• Use new NIOAsyncTestingChannel.waitForOutboundWrite in HBXCTAsyncTesting
• Add new HBHTTPConvertChannel to convert from HTTPServerResponsePart to Sendable type

Other changes

• Fix integration test compilation

v1.0.0 Alpha 1

Major version changes

• Add ServiceLifecycleProvider which allows you to pass in a lifecycle to the HBApplication, or create a new one. PR #142 from @slashmo
• Remove backLog and tcpNoDelay configuration settings when using Network framework
• Stop exporting so many symbols from dependencies.
• Move XCTTestingSetup outside of HBApplication

Minor version changes

• Add new XCT test setup .asyncTest for testing code using Swift Concurrency. PR #144
• Add HBRequest.CollateBody which can be used in middleware to collate the request body. PR #147
• Make HBApplication.Persist.driver public

Patch version changes

• Use NIOLock instead of Lock. PR #143

v0.16.3

• Support multiple query values with the same key
• Add Swift Concurrency support for macOS 12.5 and iOS 13

v0.16.2

• Fix hang inside HBApplication.start if an error occurs that would cause a shutdown.

v0.16.1

• Make HummingbirdXCT framework available in release
• HBFileMiddleware not handles serving data from Bundles

v0.16.0

• Add HBConnectionPoolGroup connection manager. Used to manage connections to external services on a per EventLoop basis. Use HBConnectionSource to generate connections to service (HBConnection).
• Add Swift concurrency APIs for HBConnectionPoolGroup
• Use hummingbird-core v0.13.5

v0.15.3

• Add CustomStringConvertible conformance to HBRequest, HBResponse and HBEnvironment

v0.15.2

• Add option in HBFileMiddleware to resolve folders as the file index.html inside the folder