arknet v0.1.0-rc.1

arknet 0.1.0 Release Candidate 1

First public prerelease of OpenArkStudio's C++20 header-only networking library.

Included

• TCP and native UDP clients, servers, sessions, and UDP cast.
• WebSocket/WSS and HTTP/HTTPS, including HTTP routing.
• Optional TLS and mutual TLS through OpenSSL.
• IPv4 and IPv6, reconnect, timers, post, bounded sends, and owned or external IO contexts.
• CRTP extension and component composition.
• Standalone Asio 1.38+ or Boost 1.90+ backends.
• Bilingual documentation, doctest checks, and reproducible C++ benchmarks.

Validation

• macOS Release builds with TLS: 41 checks and 134 doctest cases passed for each backend.
• CI validation: all 13 jobs passed, including Windows, Linux, macOS, ASan/UBSan, and TSan.
• Local performance reports include test hardware and measurements.

Prerelease Scope

APIs may change before 0.1.0. KCP/RDP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, named pipes, Unix domain sockets, and RPC are not included in this release. ARK migration will follow completion and testing of its required capabilities.

Source commit: e1cdce5.