Release 1.12.9

[1.12.9] - 2024-04-06

Added

• module :http-client-j8. A handy HTTP client based on the JDK HttpUrlConnection.
  The HttpClient can be used to send requests and retrieve their responses. It supports
  sending multi-part requests. The HTTP client does not depend on 3rd party libraries!
  There are REST and file upload examples in the Venice script examples directory.
• module :multipart that supports the subtype multipart/form-data. Renders and parses multi-part binary buffers
• support for multi-part requests to :ring module and improved the request/response
  dump functions
• function bytebuf-merge to merge byte buffers
• function bytebuf-index-of for searching patterns in byte buffers using
  the Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) pattern matching algorithm

Fixed

• the return status handling in the :ring module