A major new feature release, see release announcement.

• First stable LTS release, now following SemVer. We'd like to emphasize that this component is production ready and battle-tested. We plan to support all long-term support (LTS) releases for at least 24 months, so you have a rock-solid foundation to build on top of.

This update involves some major new features and a number of BC breaks due to some necessary API cleanup. We've tried hard to avoid BC breaks where possible and minimize impact otherwise. We expect that most consumers of this package will be affected by BC breaks, but updating should take no longer than a few minutes. See below for more details:

• Feature: Add async HTTP client implementation. (#368 by @clue)

  $browser = new React\Http\Browser($loop);
  $browser->get($url)->then(function (Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface $response) {
      echo $response->getBody();
  });
  

  The code has been imported as-is from clue/reactphp-buzz v2.9.0, with only minor changes to the namespace and we otherwise leave all the existing APIs unchanged. Upgrading from clue/reactphp-buzz v2.9.0 to this release should be a matter of updating some namespace references only:

  // old
  $browser = new Clue\React\Buzz\Browser($loop);
  
  // new
  $browser = new React\Http\Browser($loop);
  

• Feature / BC break: Add LoopInterface as required first constructor argument to Server and change Server to accept variadic middleware handlers instead of array. (#361 and #362 by @WyriHaximus)

  // old
  $server = new React\Http\Server($handler);
  $server = new React\Http\Server([$middleware, $handler]);
  
  // new
  $server = new React\Http\Server($loop, $handler);
  $server = new React\Http\Server($loop, $middleware, $handler);
  

• Feature / BC break: Move Response class to React\Http\Message\Response and expose ServerRequest class to React\Http\Message\ServerRequest. (#370 by @clue)

  // old
  $response = new React\Http\Response(200, [], 'Hello!');
  
  // new
  $response = new React\Http\Message\Response(200, [], 'Hello!');
  

• Feature / BC break: Add StreamingRequestMiddleware to stream incoming requests, mark StreamingServer as internal. (#367 by @clue)

  // old: advanced StreamingServer is now internal only
  $server = new React\Http\StreamingServer($handler);
  
  // new: use StreamingRequestMiddleware instead of StreamingServer
  $server = new React\Http\Server(
       $loop,
       new React\Http\Middleware\StreamingRequestMiddleware(),
       $handler
  );
  

• Feature / BC break: Improve default concurrency to 1024 requests and cap default request buffer at 64K. (#371 by @clue)

  This improves default concurrency to 1024 requests and caps the default request buffer at 64K. The previous defaults resulted in just 4 concurrent requests with a request buffer of 8M. See Server for details on how to override these defaults.

• Feature: Expose ReactPHP in User-Agent client-side request header and in Server server-side response header. (#374 by @clue)

• Mark all classes as final to discourage inheriting from it. (#373 by @WyriHaximus)

• Improve documentation and use fully-qualified class names throughout the documentation and add ReactPHP core team as authors to composer.json and license file. (#366 and #369 by @WyriHaximus and #375 by @clue)

• Improve test suite and support skipping all online tests with --exclude-group internet. (#372 by @clue)