nitro_server 1.0.0

Fast HTTP/1.1 and WebSocket server for Dart and Flutter, backed by a native multithreaded C++ engine over Nitro FFI, with trie routing and per-route timeouts.

1.0.0

First stable release: HTTP/1.1 + WebSocket (+ optional HTTP/2, TLS, brotli) server for Dart/Flutter on a native C++ (libuv) engine over Nitro FFI.

• Engine: one event loop per core (SO_REUSEPORT), adaptive isolate dispatch, keep-alive, pipelining, Expect: 100-continue, chunked I/O, chunked native file send, getStatic fast path; optional HTTP/2 (ALPN h2 + h2c, h2spec 137/146), TLS with cert hot-reload, mutual TLS and TLS policy, HAProxy PROXY v1/v2.
• Routing: trie router (:param, *, custom verbs, group), per-route timeout / maxBodyBytes / middleware / streamBody, WebSocket routes with middleware, RequestContext / ResponseContext (json, bytes, stream, file, SSE, cookies, RFC 7807), Server-Timing, live reload, graceful close({drain}).
• Middleware: cors, compress (gzip/brotli), accessLog, requestId, rateLimit (pluggable store, trustedProxies), validateJsonBody, bearerAuth / apiKeyAuth / basicAuth, originPolicy, staticFiles, serveObservability (/healthz, /readyz, Prometheus, dashboard), shutdownOnSignals.
• OpenAPI 3 + Swagger UI from the routes (serveOpenApi, ApiSchema for docs and validation).
• Tooling: NitroTestClient, hot reload, nitro CLI (serve, build), ServerConfig.fromEnv, benchmark harness, deploy recipes.
• Limits (all in ServerConfig, all from env): maxBodyBytes, maxConnections, maxConnectionsPerIp, maxRequestsPerConnection, maxInFlightRequests, maxBufferedBodyBytes (HTTP/2 body budget), headerTimeout (absolute), bodyTimeout, writeTimeout, keepAliveTimeout, maxConnectionAge, wsIdleTimeout, wsMaxBufferBytes, streamIdleTimeout, streamMaxBufferBytes.
• Security: static-file containment, header/cookie validation (CR/LF → 500 + handlerError), strict request parsing (control bytes, Transfer-Encoding token list, chunk sizes, UTF-8 headers, HTTP version → 505), generic 500 body, bounded buffers everywhere, RFC 6455 frame validation (Autobahn-clean), helper-isolate supervision (wedged or dead helpers are killed, detached, reported; /readyz 503).
• Supply chain: SHA-pinned actions, -Werror, ASan/TSan/fuzz/clang-tidy/ Trivy/h2spec/Autobahn in CI, nightly soak + long fuzz, release signed (Sigstore provenance, keyless cosign bundle, SPDX SBOM); the build hook verifies a prebuilt against prebuilt_checksums.json (shipped in the package) and, with NITRO_SERVER_VERIFY_SIGSTORE=1, cosign verify-blob. Linux prebuilts are built on Ubuntu 22.04 with libstdc++ linked in (glibc 2.35 floor, gated in the release workflow); macOS prebuilts need macOS 14+.
• Breaking vs. the release candidates: ServerConfig validates in bind (validate()), not assert; the default 500 body is generic; a method mismatch is 405; ServerEventKind.handlerError added; the example server has no built-in credentials.
• Build hook: a build/lib engine built in the package tree is used ahead of a prebuilt (tests in the repo and in CI run the tree's engine); a Linux host below the prebuilt's glibc floor builds from source instead.
• Fixed before publishing, found by the nightly soak: a per-request payload-log leak in the engine for requests with bodies, and an unbounded set of WebSocket connection ids.
• Quality gates: 100% Dart line coverage, ≥90% C++ coverage, blackbox benchmark (benchmark/blackbox/run.sh, --base <ref> for A/B).