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• [feature] added fltk-backend
• [feature, conan] enable_fltk option which add fltk-support
• [example] added /examples/ping-pong-fltk.cpp and examples/ping-pong-fltk_and_thread.cpp
• [bugfix] wx-backend building and testing
• [improvement, breaking] output directories are set to bin for cmake
• [improvement, breaking] actor_base_t::make_error() is marked as const

0.29 (24-Feb-2024)

• [bugfix] fix segfault in delivery plugin in debugging mode (try to set env ROTOR_INSPECT_DELIVERY=99 to see)

• [cmake, bugfix] add missing header into installation

• [feature] new interface message_visitor_t
• [feature] new interface message_stringifier_t and the default implementation default_stringifier_t which allows to dump messages. It is not a production but a diagnostic/debug tool, due to performance restrictions.
• [feature] system_context_t provides a reference to default message_stringifier_t; it is possible to have a custom one
• [feature, breaking] extended_error_t holds a reference to a request message, which caused an error
• [examples, tests, win32] fix ev examples and tests
• [example] modernize examples/thread/sha512.cpp to use recent openssl version
• [breaking] cmake requirements are lowered to 3.15
• [breaking] fix minor compilation warnings

• [feature] start_timer callback not only method, but any invocable
• [feature, conan] enable_ev option which add libev
• [breaking, conan] boost minimum version 1.83.0
• [testing, conan] remove catch2 from sources and make it dependencies
• [bugfix, breaking] make plugins more dll-friendly
• [breaking] cmake minimum version 3.23
• [breaking] rename registry_t::revese_map_t revese_map -> registry_t::reverse_map_t reverse_map
• [breaking] rename struct cancelation_t -> cancellation_t
• [doc] fix multiple typos

• [bugfix] avoid response messages loose their order relative to regular message
• [bugfix, example] add missing header

• [feature] improve inter-thread messaging performance up to 15% by using boost::unordered_map instead of std::unordered_map
• [bugfix, breaking] avoid introducing unnecessary event loops latency by intensive polling of rotor queues; affects asio and ev loops
• [bugfix] registry_plugin_t, allow to discover aliased services (#46)

• [bugfix] fix compilation issues of messages.cpp on some platforms
• [bugfix, msvc] fix compilation issues of registry plugin for shared library on msvc-16+

• [feature] possibly to install via conan center
• [feature, breaking] possibility to build rotor as shared library
• [feature] add shutdown flag checker (see my blog)
• [bugfix] requests do not outlive actors (i.e. they are cancelled on shutdown_finish)
• [example] there is my another open-source project syncspirit, which uses rotor under hood. I recommend to look at it, if the shipped examples are too-trivial, and don't give you an architectural insight of using rotor.

• [improvement] preliminary support of conan package manager
• [bugfix] fix compilation warnings on Windows/MSVC
• [bugfix] add missing header for rotor::thread installation