v2.8.1 (2025-08-19)

• Dependency: on Clojars
• Versioning: Break Versioning

This is a stable hotfix release to backport 2 commits from the v2.9 dev branch:

• [new] [server] [#588] [#589] Add join-server function (@hlship) [a251a4c]
• [fix] [client] [#568] [#569] Fix performance regression (@bsless) [a879b3d]

This should be a safe update for users of v2.8.0.