Rebol v3.21.0

This release prioritizes compression enhancements with libdeflate as the new default for deflate/zlib/gzip, plus extension support like Brotli, Deflate, Zstd, and Zlib-ng.

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Features:

• 6492ec Add link to latest Rebol/Zlib-ng extension
• aa784b Add link to latest Rebol/Brotli extension
• 8d8987 Add link to latest Rebol/Zstd extension
• a1db7a Add link to latest Rebol/Deflate extension
• 7df1d4 Add recycle/pool to free empty memory pool segments
• 80a468 Add optional LZ4 de/compression
• 283062 Add optional fast in-memory LZAV de/compression
• e2a2d2 Allow extensions to register new compression methods
• e174bf New did native returning TRUE when given a truthy value
• 645a24 Enhance HTML-entities codec with hexadecimal variant support
• 796816 Allow make tuple! to accept decimal values
• 7562e9 By default return Rebol tuple color from the request-color function
• c7bedd Include request-color in macOS builds
• 3f484b Include request-dir and request-file in macOS builds

Changes:

• dc0422 Extend compression method registry when needed
• bc42bf Refactoring of SYS-LOAD and SYS-BASE (#153)
• ce497a Update link to the latest MiniAudio extension (version 0.11.23)
• bf8dbc Using libdeflate sources for deflate, zlib and gzip compressions
• f14224 Gracefully release memory in debug builds to help detect leaks
• d34ea4 Update xxhash source to version 0.8.3
• a7d7e3 Additional fixes related to Register_Compress_Method integration
• e349a7 Initialize optional compression methods using Register_Compress_Method
• 57b590 Update Brotli source to version 1.2.0
• 76425d Unify definitions of endianness-related macros
• ad0e33 Disallow trim/with on binary input
• 298f05 Integrate host files into Rebol library

Fixes:

• 2c484f Regression related to #153 and #155
• 07bfe8 Properly parse double quotes in Unicode escape sequences (#154)
• 25ba57 Do not dispose cryptography when it is not included
• 683095 Handle TLS handshake record received in multiple chunks
• da4162 Pass none as the error argument when an extension returns an error without a message
• 47fd36 Validate handle data is not NULL before releasing
• c8397b Missing argument for throw-http-error in the HTTP scheme
• 67f5da TLS protocol: handle site using TLS1.2 with rss_pss signature algorithm
• 380b4d Find/any returning incorrect result
• 2b412a WebSocket module - correctly handle fragmented messages
• 0dc36c Properly handle escaped characters in XML attribute values
• 61a579 Force string conversion when reading URL with /string refinement
• 0a7323 Force string conversion when reading URL with /lines refinement
• 25a3d1 Gracefully handle invalid TLS extension length and improve TLS 1.2 support
• 4dbe45 Throw error for unsupported binary/read spec values