Vapor 4.104.0 released!

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Vapor 4.104.0 has been released.

What’s Changed

Conditional Content Response Compression by @dimitribouniol in #3215

Added support for conditionally compressing responses based on content type or marker headers. This is necessary because some resource types, such as images, don’t compress much, and end up maxing out CPU time on the thread and sometimes block the entire channel while they compress. This results in pipelined resources taking a long time to load even on fast connections.

This change comes with three knobs to control this:

• A global disabled/enabled by default state for the entire server.
• Allow and disallow lists of content types for automatic configurations.
• A marker header for explicitly configuring certain requests or routes to compress or not.

Notably, since the response compression handler now takes a predicate, it is always installed, and the predicate statelessly determines if a response should be compressed based on the server configuration:

• If a response co…

Link: Release 4.104.0 - Conditional Content Response Compression · vapor/vapor · GitHub