0.9.3

0.9.3

Published 26 Jun 2018

• Improved WebSocket API
• Websocket header Sec-WebSocket-Key is now optional
• Fixed client cookies rendering to avoid x-enc
• Fixed plain text client reader (#392)
• Added EC support in CIO TLS (#394: ECDHE_RSA_AES256_SHA384, ECDHE_RSA_AES128_SHA256)
• Fix client certificate validation
• Introduced optional authentication
• Added ApplicationCall as receiver for auth validate functions
• Introduced call.respondBytes (#395)
• Improved JWT support: multiple schemes, nullable issuer
• Conversion service enum type diagnostics improved (#403)
• Avoided using apos entity in HTML escaping as IE doesn't support it (#400)
• Converter support for java big numbers
• Ability to add auth methods to existing feature on the fly
• Improved auth header scheme and contents validation (#415)
• Default charset for BasicAuth is now UTF-8 (#420)
• Added ByteArrayContent.contentLength (#421)
• Fixed headersOf case insensitive issue (#426)
• Client deserialization improved by using type token
• Ability to disable client default transformers
• Explicit Accept header in client request
• Turn on masking in client websockets (#423)
• Fixed inverted PartialContent.Configuration.maxRangeCount check (#440)
• Fixed uncaught UnsupportedMediaTypeException from receiveOrNull() (#442)
• Fix multipart boundary header parsing
• Upgraded jwks/jwt, applied RSA256 by default if unspecified (#434, #435)
• Upgrade coroutine version to 0.23.3
• Upgrade Jetty version to 9.4.11.v20180605
• Add client-mock-engine for testing purpose
• Use default available engine by deafult
• Upgrade kotlin to 1.2.50

Move ktor-samples to a separate repository (#340). https://github.com/ktorio/ktor-samples

0.9.2

Published 23 Apr 2018

• New auth DSL, more suspendable functions (such as verify/validate)
• RoutingResolveTrace for introspecting routing resolution process
• HTTP client improvements and bugfixes (DSL, reconnect, redirect, cookies, websockets and more)
• CIO http client pipelining support, chunked and more
• CIO initial TLS support
• Session authentication provider
• OAuth2: introduce ability to generate and verify state field
• OAuth: fix scopes parameter to conform to RFC (#329)
• OAuth2: fix bug with double scopes encoding (#370)
• OAuth2: add ability to intercept redirect URL
• CORS: introduce allowSameOrigin option
• Auth: provide application call as receiver for validate functions (#375 and related)
• Test host reworked, handleRequest reads the body and redirects the exceptions correctly
• Servlets: fixed inputStream acquisition, fixed error handling
• Java 9 compatibility improved (no modules yet)
• Digest auth fixes (#380)
• Log running connectors details for better development experience (#318)
• Last-Modified header and related functionality to work in proper GMT time zone (#344)
• IncomingContent is deprecated
• URLBuilder fixes and improvements
• Documentation improvements
• Performance optimizations (Netty, CIO server backends)
• CIO server improved stability
• Encrypted session support (SessionTransportTransformerEncrypt)
• Empty (null) model for freemarker (#291)
• ContentNegotiation missing Accept header support (#317)

0.9.0

• Package structure reworked
• Packages and maven groupId renamed org.jetbrains.ktor -> io.ktor
• Server-related artifacts having ktor-server-* name prefix (ktor-netty -> ktor-server-netty)
• Application Host renamed to Application Engine
• FinalContent renamed to OutgoingContent as opposite to IncomingContent (introduced in 0.4.0)
• Added Application Engine configure facilities so one can specify thread pool size or some engine-specific parameter
• Initial idiomatic ktor HTTP client implementation (artifacts prefixed with ktor-client-*)
• Metrics support, DropWizard integration
• Improve routing API, tune resolution mechanics, hide some implementation details
• ContentNegotiation feature to support variable content on send and receive
• Jackson support
• Experimental pure kotlin application engine on coroutines (CIOApplicationEngine) and CIO-based http client backend
• Improved stability under load
• Status pages processing improvements
• A lot of documentation