mtlynch/picoshare 1.2.0

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This release drastically improves PicoShare's performance. In tests, it runs stable on a shared CPU VM with only 256 MB of RAM, accepting uploads of over 1 GB.

New Features

• Display upload progress by @mtlynch in #305, #308
• SQLite VACUUMing is now controlled by the command-line flag -vacuum @mtlynch in #306

Improvements

• Improve performance for file downloads, especially with streaming content by @mtlynch in #285
• Use less RAM while processing uploads by @mtlynch in #287, #293
• Free multipart resources after reading them by @mtlynch in #289

Breaking Changes

• Periodic SQLite VACUUMing is now off by default
  • You can enable VACUUMing with the -vacuum command line flag.
  • VACUUM reclaims disk space as you delete files from PicoShare, but it increases RAM usage, especially when PicoShare is running with Litestream enabled.

Full Changelog: 1.1.8...1.2.0

Acknowledgments

Big thanks to contributors who helped investigate performance issues this release, including @benbjohnson, @danwilhelm, @AGWA, @raggi, @mrkurt, and @billywhizz