Stable Pre-Release

Project Summary — network‑protocol v0.9.0

Network‑Protocol is a secure, high‑performance Rust protocol core designed for production‑grade applications, services, and daemons. This modular crate offers TCP and Unix socket transport, encrypted messaging, plugin‑based opcode routing, and built‑in benchmarks.

Snapshot

• Post‑handshake encryption using XChaCha20‑Poly1305
• Custom binary framing with optional compression support
• Dynamic dispatcher for plugin‑style message routing
• Modular transports: remote TCP, local UDS, early cluster sync
• Tested and benchmarked: integration and performance tests included

Use Cases

• Deploy secure daemon/client pipelines
• Built-in routing core for message dispatch
  I- deal for microservices, internal RPC, inter-service communication
• Extensible to clustered communication protocols (RAFT‑lite, Gossip)

Release Highlights | v0.9.0 (Stable Pre‑Release)

• Stable Transport + Secure Connection APIs
• Fully operational daemon and client with encrypted messaging
• Dispatcher handles PING, PONG, ECHO, and custom user messages
• Benchmark suite shows reliable latency and throughput in real testing

Community Standing

Docs.rs shows network‑protocol at version v0.9.0 with ~35% documentation coverage and solid metadata coverage.
Dependencies include Tokio, bincode, chacha20poly1305, LZ4/Zstd compression, and tracing.

The project’s design aligns with best practices in high‑speed protocol engineering—error‑safe framing, pluggable codec layers, and clean message handling.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/jamesgober/network-protocol/commits/0.9.0