We are happy to announce the release of 0.5.0 of Quinn, our pure-Rust implementation of the QUIC protocol, the next generation TCP replacement protocol currently being standardized at the IETF.
After 3 months of development since the release of 0.4.0, Quinn has been upgraded to the latest draft (draft 24) protocols and has been migrated to std::future::Futures and tokio 0.2. Quinn 0.5.0 is a highly conformant implementation of the latest QUIC draft, according to the interoperability testing data maintained by implementers participating in the QUIC working group.
- Implemented preliminary support for the (draft) datagram extension
- Migrated from slog to tracing
- Improved documentation
- Many smaller bug fixes and refactoring to improve Quinn's internals
Thanks to @jean-airoldie, @NULLx76, @TimonPost, @DemiMarie-parity and @daxpedda for their contributions.
Quinn has been proven to function well in real-world scenarios, so if you're interested in QUIC, now would be a good time to start testing. The QUIC v1 spec is stabilizing and we expect it will be published as an RFC in the next 6 months.
While we don't always have large amounts of pre-defined good first issues setup due to the fast moving development, we're also always happy to mentor new contributors, independent of their prior level of Rust experience! We tend to respond to issues and PRs pretty quickly, and we have an active Gitter channel.