v1.3.0

What's Changed

• Add unix domain socket support by @na-trium-144 in #803
  The most important change in this release is support for unix domain sockets as server sockets.

• Adds SBOM generation using cmake-sbom by @StefanoPetrilli in #1066
  The CMake build scripts supports now the generation of an SBOM, there is a new CMake option CROW_GENERATE_SBOM for this.

A lot of outstanding small bugs was fixed, the most important are maybe these:

• Fix "load balancing" not working by @ino-josh in #1050
• fix for catch all route does not get fully parsed request by @gittiver in #1076

@StefanoPetrilli overhauled the GitHub CI scripts, we build now with Boost::asio, standalone asio, clang or gcc, libstdc++ or libc++.

A lot of other small fixes and improvements were done by the community of contributors:

• Fix for middleware using unsteady clock by @finn-nerd in #999
• Synchronious write stream handling fix by @TiARETiK in #1000
• Bumped the minimum C++ version from 11 to 17 in docs by @Guiorgy in #1001
• Update minimum ASIO version requirement in getting started documentation by @HiGuyJanni in #1008
• Fix deprecated literal operator warning in Clang 20 by @HiGuyJanni in #1015
• Omit Server header when server_name is empty by @Sightem in #1021
• [doc] Default CMake Build Requires Linking Against OpenSSL and Zlib by @jameshu15869 in #1030
• FIX: "bind: Address already in use" by @nyaruku in #1028
• Log invalid port (fixes #952) by @HiGuyJanni in #1037
• corrected minimal asio version for deprecated functions by @gittiver in #1039
• Add new template project with Docker support out of the box by @landiluigi746 in #1041
• [SSL_MD] ADDED fullchain certificate usage in ssl.md by @OBEsensia in #1044
• Adding bazelmod by @sebastianbergt in #1009
• Clean up: Relocate Method to HTTP server by @EmBachlitzanakis in #1049
• Update socket_adaptors.h by @marcuradu2 in #1051
• Compiler warning fixes by @gittiver in #870
• Use error_code from correct namespace by @hpcdgrie in #1055
• logger optimisation by @gittiver in #1056
• update OSS-Fuzz build script by @AdamKorcz in #1063
• Add is_bound() helper for checking server bind state by @maredman in #1065
• Solves compilation error when using Boost by @StefanoPetrilli in #1070
• Adds Boost to ci by @StefanoPetrilli in #1071
• Documentation Dark Mode Font/Background (Issue #695) by @Adrian1161 in #1073
• added star history diagram by @gittiver in #1072
• Refactors Build and Test CI by @StefanoPetrilli in #1079
• include CPM via CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR by @aumuell in #1083
• Fix Boost::system search for 1.89 and later by @IgnatSergeev in #1082
• Add option to search for boost if enabled by @bmarques1995 in #1085
• Add content type to set static file info by @mketas in #1086
• Solves websocket memory leak by @StefanoPetrilli in #1080
• Isolate utility tests by @nicholashanson in #1090
• Refactor routing_params test and isolate HTTP response tests by @nicholashanson in #1088
• Fix a regression on MacOS by @puffetto in #1095
• Add missing include to http_server.h by @beached in #1094
• Refactor/isolate json tests by @nicholashanson in #1092
• Refactor/isolate websocket tests by @nicholashanson in #1091
• Refactor/isolate mustache tests by @nicholashanson in #1093
• url_display: correctly display v6 addresses by @autoantwort in #1096
• add nsis install step by @gittiver in #1102
• gitignore: Add macOS files and more files from QtCreator by @autoantwort in #1100
• added test for issue #1042 by @gittiver in #1061

New Contributors

• @finn-nerd made their first contribution in #999
• @Guiorgy made their first contribution in #1001
• @HiGuyJanni made their first contribution in #1008
• @Sightem made their first contribution in #1021
• @jameshu15869 made their first contribution in #1030
• @nyaruku made their first contribution in #1028
• @landiluigi746 made their first contribution in #1041
• @OBEsensia made their first contribution in #1044
• @sebastianbergt made their first contribution in #1009
• @ino-josh made their first contribution in #1050
• @EmBachlitzanakis made their first contribution in #1049
• @marcuradu2 made their first contribution in #1051
• @hpcdgrie made their first contribution in #1055
• @AdamKorcz made their first contribution in #1063
• @maredman made their first contribution in #1065
• @Adrian1161 made their first contribution in #1073
• @aumuell made their first contribution in #1083
• @IgnatSergeev made their first contribution in #1082
• @bmarques1995 made their first contribution in #1085
• @mketas made their first contribution in #1086
• @nicholashanson made their first contribution in #1090

Full Changelog: v1.2.1.2...v1.3.0