V0.9.0 Major refactor, RFC9234

Overview

This release primarily focused on improving code quality and performance, with several essential refactorings made to the codebase, including:

• changing the repository to a monorepo (#77)
• replacing the ipnetwork library with ipnet (#78)
• removing custom DataBytes struct from the codebase (#80 and #86)
• applying and enforcing cargo fmt (#89)

In addition to these improvements, several new features were added, including:

• the addition of only-to-customer attributes to elem (#93)
• support for the new RFC9234 for route leak prevention BGP path attribute (#65)

Furthermore, new documentation was added for BGP extended and large communities (#98), and new benchmarks were written to improve cross-platform support (#90). Finally, extensive unit tests were added to enhance the reliability of the library (#97).

Details

New Features

• Support RFC9234 by @digizeph in #65
• Add only-to-customer attributes to elem; add example by @digizeph in #93
• Create cache reader for parser constructor by @digizeph in #99

Refactors

• Change repository to monorepo by @digizeph in #77
• Replace ipnetwork lib with ipnet by @digizeph in #78
• Fix #82 and lazily create header bytes by @jmeggitt in #83
• Make BgpkitParser Generic For Any Reader by @jmeggitt in #81
• Remote custom DataBytes struct, allow generic over Read for parser constructor by @digizeph in #80 and #86
• Apply cargo fmt changes by @digizeph in #89
• Rewrite existing benchmarks to improve cross-platform support and cover additional tools by @jmeggitt in #90
• Check MD5 checksum after downloading new test data by @jmeggitt in #91

Tests

• BGP path attributes parsing unit tests by @digizeph in #97

Documentation

• Add example to search for AS set messages by @digizeph in #94
• Document display formats for BGP extended and large communities by @digizeph in #98

New Contributor

@jmeggitt made significant code refactor and performance contributions to this release, including:

• Fix #82 and lazily create header bytes in #83
• Make BgpkitParser Generic For Any Reader in #81
• Rewrite existing benchmarks to improve cross-platform support and cover additional tools in #90
• Check MD5 checksum after downloading new test data in #91

Thank you @jmeggitt for your contribution!

Full Changelog: v0.8.1...v0.9.0