2.0.0 Alpha 2 Release

[gdamore]

Happy New Year! It's still 2024 as I write this, in my location, but not in others. And not for long!

This release has fixes for various things over alpha 2.0.0 alpha 1. Some notable improvements:

• Introduction of support for socket activation -- see NNG_OPT_LISTEN_FD available for TCP, TLS, and on POSIX/Linux, IPC transports and streams layers.
• Horizontal scalability of pollers -- epoll, kqueue, port events, and poll all now engage multiple threads, giving the opportunity to engage with multiple CPU cores. This should have a marked improvement on larger systems.
• More allocations removed, more dereferences removed.
• Hot code paths no have eliminated at least one pair of lock entry/exits vs alpha 1. (Which was already improved.)
• More of documentation is converted.
• Test suites are more reliable (pesky EADDRINUSE bugs are hopefully squashed now)

The nng_close function is renamed to nng_sock_close, as a heads up... so pay attention to the migration guide! (There is a macro, NNG1_MIGRATION that can be set to provide a macro to aid in transition.

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