This version feels almost mature enough to where I would call it v1.0. But due to lack of production environment testing, it will stay v0.3

I'm hoping to be able to add hotfixes for any bugs unseen or necessary fixes.

Thanks to every single person who contributed to this project! I hope I didn't forget to mention any of you.

Here are the changes:

Packages / Dependencies

• CMake Improvements (for better compatibility with Conan recipes). @madduci, @prince-chrismc, and The Conan team. #96
• Vcpkg Support. @thinking-tower #137
• Fix CMake problem when Crow is built in a subdirectory of another project. @rittelle #103
• More CMake Fixes. @ugermann #124
• Crow can now be installed on the system using make install. @ayaankhan98 #80

Websockets

• Bug Reset the internal header variable before every read. (fixing potential issues where read is run and no actual data is taken from the socket). #44
• Bug Fixed potential crash when using SSL Websockets. @fran6co #44
• Feature Added support for non masked client messages. #44
• Feature Added functionality to send a ping message from the server. #44
• Feature Exposed methods to send Ping and Pong to the end-user. #44
• Feature Ping and Pong payloads to be larger than 127 bytes are now allowed. #44

HTTP

• Feature Added Support for HTTP Compression using Zlib. @pierobot #93
• Feature Made Compression (and Zlib dependency) optional (via macro). @alejandroarmas #142
• Bug Fixed broken Static files due to Responses not being cleared. @rittelle #109
• Feature Added Catch-all Route. @Tibbel #122 #126
• Feature Users can now define anything they want a handler to return using the returnable class. #84
• Feature Crow handler can now have Response alone as an argument (without Request). @ayaankhan98 @klaus-moon #76
• Feature Server name can now be set to anything the User wants. @Makaveli #79
• Feature More robust redirection tools. #87
• Feature methods pop(), pop_list(), pop_dict(), and keys() added to query_string. #132
• Feature Crow now handles HEAD and OPTIONS HTTP methods automatically. #117
• Bug Fixed issue where response is logged twice. #128

Static Files

• Feature Created static folder similar to flask. #50
• Feature Static File support was enabled on Windows. @epajarre #55

Mustache

• Feature Crow logs a warning if a template is not found. @rittelle #102

Json

• Feature crow::json::wvalue can now return any Json type, not just Json objects. #70
• Feature crow::json::wvalue can now use either std::unordered_map or std::map (for organized results). #132
• Feature Added lo() method to json::rvalue, returns a vector of json::rvalue containing whatever a json object or list has. #132
• Feature Added constructor to create crow::json::wvalue from std::vector. #132
• Feature Added keys() method to json::rvalue. #132
• Feature Added size() to crow::json::wvalue. #132
• Feature Added std::string() operator to json::rvalue (allows std::string(json["abc"]). #132
• dump() is now part of crow::json::wvalue and is const. #70 @belugum #135
• Feature Added copy constructor to crow::json::wvalue. #132

Documentation

• Added Guides / Tutorials powered by mkdocs. #71 #72 #73 #74 #95 #132 @wentasah #134 @thinking-tower #137
• Added in code documentation for most of the library. #65 #44 #61
• Cleaned up a small problem with app.h documentation. #44
• Small documentation error fix. @tibovanheule #114
• Readme changes. #71

CI/CD

• Travis replaced with Drone.io. #120

Testing / Examples

• Added Websocket tests. #44
• Added examples and tests for json and query_string new methods. #132
• Bug #include for example_with_all. @supersaiyanmode #63
• Bug Renamed CMake target: example -> basic_example. @supersaiyanmode #64
• Bug Crow now reports the actual port from ASIO when running. @ChoppinBlockParty #119
• Bug Mustache tests now included in coverage. #129

Other

• merge_all.py is now windows compatible. #58
• Added CROW_MAIN Macro to avoid multiple definition error of static variables. @fckxorg #111 #118
• Crow's signal handler is now optional. @NRizzoInc @ilejn #85
• MSVC compatibility fixes. @sfinktah #101
• Better Xcode Compatibility. @dspverden #139
• Recast 64-bit size_t to 32-bit int to remove MSVC warnings. @sfinktah #106
• uint was replaced with unsigned, improving compatibility. @epajarre #54
• Middlewares are now in a subfolder rather than being on the same level as the core library. #51
• Moved Repository under "CrowCpp" organization.