vibe-d/vibe.d v0.9.3

Custom REST serialization, HTTP client & StreamOutputRange bugfixes

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Changes: v0.9.2...v0.9.3

Brings some important bug fixes in the HTTP client and StreamOutputRange. Also
adds custom serializer support for the REST interface generator and removes
some deprecated symbols.

Features and improvements

• Added @resultSerializer UDA for the REST interface generator to support custom serialization for responses (by Daniel Graczer) - pull #2492, pull #2503
• Added @serializationPolicy UDA for the REST interface generator to specify custom serialization policies (by Daniel Graczer) - pull #2505
• The REST interface generator now allows const ref parameters (by Daniel Graczer) - pull #2495
• Instead of @bodyParam/@headerParam/@queryParam, parameters in REST interfaces can now be annotated directly with @viaBody/@viaHeader/@viaQuery (by Mathias Lang aka Geod24) - pull #2516
• Added support for range or callback based toString overloads in the serialization framework (by Daniel Graczer) - pull #2493, pull #2503, pull #2510
• The REST interface client does not require a "Content-Type" header for responses with no return value anymore (by Mathias Lang aka Geod24) - pull #2521
• Uses securely generated random numbers for digest authentication
• createMulticastStream is now a struct and accepts non-class streams as sources - pull #2487
• Added MulticastStreamMode, enabling a new parallel mode - pull #2519
• More of the vibe.data.json API is nothrow - pull #2479
• DictionaryList.byKeyValue is now a forward range - pull #2479
• vibe.inet.path is now deprecated (import vibe.core.path instead)
• Removed deprecated indexOfCT and DictionaryList alias this (by Mathias Lang aka Geod24) - pull #2475
• Added HTTPServerSettings.rejectConnectionPredicate (by Daniel Graczer aka ferencdg) - pull #2496, pull #2519
• Optimized URL.parse/isURLEncoded - pull #2524

Bug fixes

• Fixed a wrong response in the HTTP file server when requesting the last byte of a file or zero length files - pull #2481, pull #2482
• Fixed a file descriptor leak in the HTTP client (by Tomáš Chaloupka) - pull #2483
• Fixed a resource leak in error cases in StreamOutputRange (by Tomáš Chaloupka) - issue #2484, pull #2485, pull #2489
• Fixed the error message generated by failing persistent HTTP client requests (by Daniel Graczer) - pull #2499
• Fixed an issue where the wrong response is reported when using a HTTP client read timeout (by Daniel Graczer) - issue #2506, pull #2507
• Fixed a compile error when returning const values from REST interface methods (by Mathias Lang aka Geod24) - pull #2518