Release 2.5

This release brings significant security and stability fixes. Updating to this version is strongly recomended:

• On Linux systems, file descriptor limit is always raised to the set hard value. This increases the maximum allowed connections.
• Clients which stay connected without SSL negotiation will be kicked after a timeout. Set this timeout with the timeout parameter.
• Clients which successfully connect via SSL and don't exchange data will be kicked every ping_time interval, which is a new parameter you can configure.
• Clients will be disconnected after completing requests other than joining a channel.
• Handled potential KeyErrors and RuntimeErrors caused by dictionaries changing their size during an iteration.
• Removed a lot of legacy code, since Python 2.x is nolonger supported.
• Configured all possible protection and isolation settings on Systemd units. Support for these settings depend on Systemd version installed on your distro, but won't cause problems beyond some warnings. As a consequence, pidfile and log path have changed their default values. Sysusers and tmpfiles config files are nolonger required and have been removed.
• When running as a Systemd service, user and group are dinamically allocated. Some scripts which handled user account management have been removed from the Archlinux, deb and rpm packages. They are nolonger required.
• NVDARemoteServer status will report memory, network, disk and CPU usage on Linux running Systemd.
• Bytecode is nolonger generated when running in debug mode. Goodbye, pycache folder.
• Optimized Docker image, which should be smaller and include less layers than before. It nolonger depends on external downloads on the build process. Thanks @jpavonabian for the suggestions.
• Docker compose file can now build the Docker image, and includes limits for file descriptors.
• On Windows, the latest versions of Python, OpenSSL, Pywin32, Pyinstaller, setuptools and other packages, and C runtime have been included.
• On RHEL9-based distros, Python 3.13 is required.
• Settings with integer or float values will fall back to defaults if wrong values are provided.
• Other small tweaks, optimizations and documentation updates.

Enjoy.