v1.0.31 - WAF Bypass & Performance Improvements

This release focuses on improving the client's reliability against Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and enhancing connection management.

🚀 Key Improvements

• WAF Compatibility: Modernized HTTP headers and added browser security headers (Origin, Sec-Fetch-*) to prevent 403 Forbidden errors encountered with modern bot detection systems.
• Connection Reuse: Optimized AthenaClient to properly reuse HTTP sessions (Keep-Alive), reducing latency and improving stability during high-volume requests.
• Dynamic Timeouts: Added a per-request timeout parameter to all get() and post() methods in both synchronous and asynchronous clients.
• Async Alignment: Synchronized the AthenaAsyncClient with the same header and session management improvements.

🧪 Quality & Testing

• Regression Tests: Added new test suites to verify header behavior and prevent 403 regressions.
• Live API Integration: Introduced opt-in live API tests (ATHENA_LIVE_TESTS=true) for real-world verification.
• Developer Tooling: Improved Makefile with a robust bump-version workflow.

⚠️ Backward Compatibility

This version is fully backward compatible. All existing implementations will continue to work without modification while benefiting from the improved connectivity.