• fix: Support nested types in the generated Swagger document (#1488)

• feat: Allow customization of the SwaggerDocument (#1483)
• feat: Ability to limit request size and connection count (#1481)

• fix: Correctly register Codable paths which contain an explicit :id (#1485)

• fix: Correctly register Codable paths which contain an explicit :id (#1484)

• Resolve compilation failures with Swift 5.1 (#1466)

Features

• Enable Kitura to exit with a non-zero exit code (#1430)
  • note: Kitura.run() will now call exit() to terminate the process with a non-zero status code if any of the listeners fails to start, such as if a requested port is in use. To prevent this, you may specify Kitura.run(exitOnFailure: false).
• Maintain the URL query when static file server redirects (#1381)
• Allow servers to listen on a specific address (#1453)
• Define a Kitura.logTo() function for logging via swift-log (#1460)
• StaticFileServer fallback option to support single-page applications (#1464)
• Convenience API for creating cookies (#1468)

Fixes

• Swift 5.1 support (#1466)
• Add iOS availability (#1475)

Features

• Support UNIX domain sockets (client and server) (#1434)

Fixes

• Update MIME content types (#1441)
• Swagger/OpenAPI generation improvements (#1420, #1346, #1347)
• Require TypeDecoder 1.3 on Swift 4.0 and 4.1 (#1439)
• Build in Swift 5 mode (#1436)
• Improve test resilience (#1426)
• Use official Swift Docker images for testing (#1424)
• Use UTF8View to create Data (#1395)

Performance

• Remove NSString from Accepts header and cookies (#1402)
• Avoid NSString in query parameters (#1401)
• Avoid unnecessary copy in RouterResponse.send() (#1394)

• fix: Remove hashvalue for swift >= 4.2

• fix: Prevent crash when an empty Content-Type header is supplied (#1405)

• Produce a consistent ordering of elements in OpenAPI definition (#1393)
• Warn when initializing a StaticFileServer on a non-existent path (#1389)

• Consistent handling of parameters for Codable routes #1310
• Initialize TypesafeMiddleware first #1350
• Allow Kitura welcome page to be disabled #1344
• Performance improvement when sending Strings #1369
• Conditional GET using etags #1333

• fix: Handle optional query parameters correctly with Type-Safe Middlewares (#1334)

What's New

• Enhanced OpenAPI support including query parameters
• SwiftNIO support (enable using env KITURA_NIO=1 swift build)
• Pluggable encoders and decoders on Router, used in Codable routing
• Performance throughput improvements
• New splash screen
• Bugfixes

What's New

• Support for a new kind of type-safe middleware
• Support for generating Swagger from Codable routes
• Type-safe templating
• Tech preview of Kitura on SwiftNIO (see kitura-nio branch)
• request.getQueryParameters() for decoding query params in Codable routes
• request.queryParametersMultiValues for easily decoding comma-separated query params
• response.userInfo dictionary for stashing user data in a response
• Extra Codable routing API for returning a single Codable from a GET route with query params
• ParsedBody.asRaw for easy decode of HTTP body data as Data
• Better error messages on JSON decode failure
• Swift 4.2 support

What's New

• Support for sending a Codable body with a RequestError response (#1214)
• Support for sending arrays of tuples of (Identifier, Codable) - (#1223)
• new convenience API to simplify development of CodableRouter extensions (#1222)
• Codable Routing support for URLEncoded forms (#1228)
• Support for Swift 4.1 (#1230)
• Bridge KituraNet.HTTPStatusCode (#1217)
• Declare StaticFileServer API open to allow subclassing (#1245)
• Documentation improvements

Fixes

• A fix for memory leaks caused by a failure to invoke callbacks in certain error paths (#1232)

What's New

• Adds an additional Codable APIs for query parameters (Kitura Evolution Proposals #0002 - Query Parameters Enhancement and #0003 - Codable Query Parameters)
• API documentation improvements
• Migration to Swift 4.0.3

What's New

• Adds an additional Codable api to supporting a GET handler for non-arrays return types
• Support for an array mapping in Query Parameters
• Provides support for Range Requests
• Migration to Swift 4.0.2

What's New

• Migrated the Kitura framework to be a pure Swift 4 package.
• Improved developer experience by adding new Codable routing support for common HTTP verbs (i.e. GET, PUT, POST, PATCH, DELETE).

What's New

• Add support for Swift 4
• Allow the limit on consecutive Keep-Alive requests per connection to be configurable. The default has been changed to allow an unlimited number of requests.

We are delighted to release Kitura 1.7 with:

• Swift 3.1 support
• Swift 3.0.2 backwards compatibility
• Improved memory management
• Improved interrupt handling
• MySQL plugin for Kuery(SQL abstraction layer)
• Hierarchical configuration manager for Swift applications
• Unified query string parsing
• New JSON send APIs without SwiftyJSON dependencies
• Improved server cleanup
• SSL fixes
• The usual squashed bugs

We are delighted to release Kitura 1.6 with:

• Significant performance improvements in Kitura route matching
• Fixes for SSL related contention issues
• Faster, more comprehensive unit tests covering SSL
• HeliumLogger enhancement to print to TextOutputStream
• HTML boilerplate for Kitura-Markdown
• Fix for unexpected process exit on SIGPIPE
• Linux foundation memory leak workaround
• The usual squashed bugs

We are delighted to release Kitura 1.5.

• Kitura-WebSockets
• Kitura-Chat-Server
• Improve test coverage
• Fix specification compliance for Accept* headers
• Fixed memory Leak when checking headers
• Fix issues running tests under code coverage tooling
• Remove reference loop in Kitura-net
• Remove use of String.CompareOptions.regularExpression because of memory leak on linux
• Fix ClientResponse parsing issues

We are delighted to release Kitura 1.4

• Swift 3.0.2 support
• PostgreSQL plugin for SQL abstraction layer
• Rewrite cookie parsing implementation for specification compliance
• Enable custom UserProfile fields and their retrieval from identity providers
• Enhance features and performance of HeliumLogger
• Add a template engine for Markdown
• Fix some memory issues in Kitura Middleware
• Avoid URLComponents memory leak on Linux
• Added and fixed some unit tests
• Squashed a few bugs

We are delighted to release Kitura 1.3.

Features

• Many improvements to handling of percent encoding in parameters
• New monitoring hooks in Kitura-net to enable HTTP performance monitoring
• New URLComponents property in RouterRequest
• Significant performance improvements to HeliumLogger
• Bugfixes

Enjoy!

We are delighted to release Kitura 1.2.

Features

• Autocompletion and code assist now works properly with Xcode 8.1
• New router.parameter() methods for easier access to route parameters. See the tests for examples of use.
• CHTTPParser merged into Kitura-net to reduce git clones
• Support for mergeParameters to enable subrouters to access matched params defined in the parent router
• Bugfixes and performance improvements

Enjoy!

We are delighted to release Kitura 1.1. Kitura 1.1 delivers support for Swift 3.0.1.

Features

• Swift 3.0.1 support
• A lifecycle manager for Kitura so you can be notified when server startup is complete
• Bugs squashed

Kitura 1.0

We are delighted to announce the release of Kitura 1.0. Kitura is a high performance and simple to use web framework for building modern Swift applications. It scales out of the box, it is cloud-ready, and it's fun!

Features

• Flexible routing
• Pluggable middlewares
• JSON parsing
• SSL/TLS
• FastCGI

Swift Version

Kitura 1.0 runs on Swift 3.0, on both macOS and Ubuntu Linux.

Visit http://www.kitura.io to learn more.

Features

• Migrate to Swift 3.0
• Deprecate Kitura-sys, remove the dependency from Kitura-net

Enhancements

• Performance improvements
• Improved test coverage

Documentation

• API documentation written for Kitura-Session, Kitura-Session-Redis, Kitura-Credentials, Kitura-Cache, HeliumLogger, Kitura-Compression, Kitura-CORS, Kitura-CSRF, Kitura-ResponseTime

Swift Version

This release is designed to run on Swift 3.0!

Features

• Migrate to the 09/07 Swift snapshot
• GRMustache supported on macOS

Enhancements

• Performance improvements
• Memory leaks fixed
• More scalable on machines with more cores
• Other miscelaneous bugs fixed

Documentation

• Wiki guide for working with templates (#685)
• Generation of API docs for Kitura and Kitura-net (#706)
  • view it at http://ibm-swift.github.io/Kitura/ and http://ibm-swift.github.io/Kitura-net/
  • we happily accept documentation pull requests!

Swift Version

This release is designed to run on Swift DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT-2016-09-07-a

Features

• Migrate to the 08/23 Swift snapshot (#702)

Enhancements

• Add Kitura.start() and Kitura.stop() (#696)
• Connection: Close header in ClientRequest is now optional (Kitura-net#70, thanks @dsperling)
• Ability to control allowPartialMatch on Router methods (#688, thanks @naithar)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes

Documentation

• Improve doc for developing Kitura apps in Xcode (#552, thanks @saeki)
• Wiki guide for sessions with Kitura-Session (#647), and authentication with Kitura-Credentials (#649)
• Generation of API doc and initial skeleton content (#681)
  • view it at http://ibm-swift.github.io/Kitura/ and http://ibm-swift.github.io/Kitura-net/
  • we happily accept documentation pull requests!

Swift Version

This release is designed to run on Swift DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT-2016-08-23-a