Release Kompact 0.11.3

Changes

• Update all dependencies.
• Removed the dependency on the bitfields crate (https://github.com/johanmickos/bitfields-rs) by inlining it, as requested in #204 by the owner @johanmickos.
• Updated the nightly we use for rustfmt and clippy.
• Removed some dead code and applied clippy lints for newer APIs.

Kompact v0.11.2

Dependency Updates

Updated all dependencies to newest versions.
Of particular note is the protobuf update from 2.x to 3.x, which removes our dependency on protoc for tests.

Kompact v0.11.1

Dependency Updates

Updated all dependencies to newest versions.
Of particular note is the uuid update from 0.8 to 1.3, which is public faces and may lead to compilation issues when two different uuid versions are in scope.

Kompact v0.11.0

Main Changes

• Added support for disconnecting channels
• KompactConfig::new has been deprecated, use ::default instead.
• (Strong)ActorRef's ask method has been renamed to ask_with
• A new ask method has been introduced, which is only available on reference with message type Ask<_, _>. This method takes the request value directly and creates an Ask instance, without using a function to map in the promise. Since this is the most common case, it seemed sensible to have the minimal API for the common case.
• Added Ask::complete_with function, which works like Ask::complete, except that it's async and also takes an async function as a completion function.
• Added the new Completable trait to KPromise, allowing promises to be fulfilled using the default value of the underlying type by calling promise.complete().
• KFuture is now must_use, which may break dependencies denying warnings during compilation.
• Removed panics from places where they shouldn't be
• Various bug fixes, docs improvements and error message improvements.

Dependencies

• Bytes dependency bumped to 1.0
• Wheel Timer bumped to 1.1

Networking Layer Changes

• The NetworkDispatcher now detects panics in the NetworkThread spawns a new NetworkThread in such cases.
• The NetworkThread no longer panics if it runs out of buffers, instead connections will be dropped after some number of retries if there are no buffers available.
• Lazy serialisation is now performed by the NetworkThread rather than the NetworkDispatcher.
• Added the NetworkStatusPort which users can subscribe to to receive NetworkStatus messages about connectivity changes, and which users may send NetworkStatusRequest messages to control the network layer.
• Added Blocking to the Networking implementation, users may block/allow a specificSystemPath, IpAddr or IpNet by sending a message on the NetworkStatusPort
• New syntax for the match_deser macro
• Added SessionId structure ( a wrapper for Uuid's) associated with network connections. It's added as a field to the NetMessage and allows users to detect possible message loss when the session from a sender has been changed.
• Added Soft Connection Limit and Hard Connection Limit which limits the number of concurrent network connections. The hard limit limits the absolute number of connections in any state while the soft limit limits the number of active connections.

Kompact Devevelopement changes

• Various testing and CI improvements.
• There is a new config module which contains (primarily) the ConfigEntry struct, as well as a macro kompact_config!() used to conveniently generate the entries as well as rustdoc for them.

Kompact 0.10.1

Small bugfix release for rust nightly >2020-10-29 including the needed feature flag changes.

Other Changes

• Added an info_lifecycle macro, that works like ignore_lifecycle but with INFO level output.

Kompact 0.10.0

Features

• Async/Await Support
• UDP networking support
• Network Buffers can now be configured using BufferConfig
• Support for custom component recovery handlers
• Buffer chunks can now be chained, allowing essentially arbitrary sized messages to be serialised (limited by the buffer pool configuration and system memory, of course)
• Explicit and implicit routing for incoming messages on named paths has been implemented
• Type Erased Components (nightly-only, feature gated)

Breaking Changes

• ProvidedPort/RequiredPort only has a single type parameter now
• All event/message handlers must return a special Handled struct now. Normally that should simply be Handled::Ok.
• Within serialisers the buf.bytes() method does not necessarily return the complete slice anymore. This in accordance with the interface specification, but differs from previous behaviour.
• Serialisers must now implement TryClone, as cloning the serialiser is sometimes necessary. Since most are stateless, they can fulfil this requirement by simply deriving Clone.
• Named actor paths are now added correctly into the store, which may cause some runtime issues for users of path hierarchies. This is technically a bug fix, though, as paths were always meant to be added split by / and not as a single blob.
• ActorLookup/ActorStore has a new API, but I don't expect any external issues with that.

Other Changes

• Serialisable may override the cloned method to avoid the broadcast policy having to serialise an otherwise local and cloneable structure.
• The same goes for Serialiser::try_clone_data.
• To preserve my sanity while testing, I added a few convenience methods for constructing named actor paths to SystemPath and NamedPath. In particular you can now use something like path / "new-child" / '*' to extend a named path.
• Nagle's algorithm can now be configured in the NetworkConfig

And many other changes...too many to list, really. This has become quite a large release.

Kompact 0.9.0

Breaking Changes

• ActorPath::tell_ser has been replaced with ActorPath::tell_serialised with uses pooled buffers
• ActorRefFactory now takes an associated type instead of a type parameter
• Rename KompactConfig::scheduler to KompactConfig::executor and add a new KompactConfig::scheduler function that actually takes Scheduler instances
• Within components only a limited version of KompactSystem is exposed, to avoid people using blocking APIs from within Kompact threads.
• NetMessage has new API that makes it easier to use the sender and receiver fields
• The function Fulfillable::fulfill has been renamed to fulfil to be consistent with BE usage

Other Changes

• Add Eq to ControlEvent
• Removed dependency on Tokio
• Network buffers are now pooled and reused to avoid allocations
• Add API docs for everything public
• There's now a Hocon based system config API
• There is now a tutorial for Kompact
• Kompact now runs on stable Rust
• ScheduledTimer::from_uuid is now a public API
• Actor paths can now be registered from within components using a message-based API instead of a future-based one
• Named actor paths can now be reregistered using update_alias_registration
• SystemField is now a public trait
• Switched to external timer crate
• Component panics are now downcast if possible for better error messages
• ActorPath now supports forwarding NetMessage without deserialising first

Kompact 0.8.1

A small maintenance release with some dependency updates (fixing a threadpool bug) and improved re-exports, as well as less output in release builds.

Kompact 0.8.0

Breaking Changes

• Local actor communication (i.e., via ActorRef) is now statically typed.
• Local actor communication does not include implicit sender references anymore.

Other Changes

• A new macro match_deser! that makes handling network messages more convenient.
• Support for eager (on the sending actor) message serialisation via the tell_ser method on ActorPath.
• Component macros now generate implementations for ProvideRef and RequireRef traits, which allow easier component connection, for example via biconnect_components or via connect_to_provided/connect_to_required.
• Support for a narrower version of ActorRef called a Recipient, which auto-boxes messages into the type expected by the receiving actor.
• A wait_expect method on Future to avoid the wait_timeout -> expect -> expect sequence during actor registration.
• Support for running components on dedicated threads, instead of the shared threadpool. Dedicated component can optionally be pinned to CPU cores with the thread_pinning feature.
• A new trait NetworkActor that can be used to conveniently implement actors that handle the same set of messages from remote and local source (i.e., via ActorRef or ActorPath).
• ComponentContext now has a method suicide(), allowing it to shut itself down.

Kompact 0.6.0

Breaking Changes

• Added some fault handling
  • The supervisor will deallocate faulty components (or at least release its Arc)
  • If the fault happens at a system component, the whole system will be poisoned
  • Components will now execute lifecycle handlers before informing the supervisor (so that a component that panics during its start handler is never considered active by the supervisor)
• Creating a KompactSystem can now fail, which is accounted for by returning a Result instead of the raw system
• KompactSystem no longer implements Default. Use KompactConfig::default().build() instead.
• Allow network to bind on random port properly (use <IP>:0 as SocketAddr to request this behaviour).
• Failing to bind on a port will now cause the NetworkDispatcher to fail starting and thus poison the KompactSystem as described above.
• Changed remaining Kompics references to Kompact.
  • Users must change all references to KompicsConfig and KompicsSystem to KompactConfig and KompactSystem respectively.