hotato 1.18.1

[1.18.1] - 2026-07-29

Fixed

• A slow-starting event loop no longer refuses the LiveKit connect. The RTC
  driver started its loop thread and set the ready flag from the thread body,
  before run_forever(). A thread scheduled late therefore released
  connect() against a loop that was not running yet, and the submit path
  refused it outright: "LiveKit connect refused because the event loop is
  stopped". Readiness is signalled with loop.call_soon(ready.set) now, which
  cannot fire until the loop is actually running, so a slow start costs latency
  instead of an error. The regression test forces the race by delaying
  run_forever() past the point where the old code released the caller.

Full entry: https://github.com/attenlabs/hotato/blob/v1.18.1/CHANGELOG.md