v1.0.0 - Initial version (2025-10-02)

🎉 Initial Release

Modern HTTP client library for Go with comprehensive security features, optimal performance, and developer-friendly APIs.

Key Features:

• 🛡️ Secure by Default - TLS 1.2+, input validation, CRLF protection, SSRF prevention
• ⚡ High Performance - Connection pooling, HTTP/2, buffer pooling (90% less allocations)
• 🔄 Built-in Resilience - Circuit breaker, intelligent retry, graceful degradation
• 🎯 Developer Friendly - Simple API, rich options, comprehensive error handling
• 📥 File Download - Progress tracking, resume support, streaming for large files

What's Included

Core Features:

• Full HTTP methods support (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS)
• 25+ request options (headers, auth, query params, body formats, cookies, timeout, retry)
• Rich response handling with JSON/XML parsing
• Advanced file upload/download with progress tracking
• Automatic cookie management with cookie jar

Security & Performance:

• TLS 1.2-1.3 with configurable cipher suites
• Three security presets (Permissive, Balanced, Strict)
• Connection pooling with HTTP/2 support
• Circuit breaker for fault protection
• Intelligent retry with exponential backoff

Configuration:

• Secure defaults that work out of the box
• Timeout: 60s, Max Retries: 2, TLS: 1.2-1.3
• Max concurrent requests: 500
• Max response body size: 50 MB