Cutelyst v4 - 10 years 🎉
Cutelyst the Qt web framework is now at v4.0.0 just a bit later for it's 10th anniversary.
With 2.5k commits it has been steadly improving, and in production for many high traffic applications. With this release we say good bye to our old Qt5 friend, also dropped uWSGI support, clearsilver and Grantlee were also removed, many methods now take a QStringView and Cutelyst::Header class was heavly refactored to allow usage of QByteArrayView, and stopped storing QStrings internally in a QHash, they are QByteArray inside a vector.
Before, all headers were uppercased and dashes replaced with underscores, this was quite some work, so that when searching the string had to be converted to this format to be searcheable, this had the advantage of allowing the use of QHash and in templates you could c.request.header.CONTENT_TYPE. Turns out both cases aren't so important, speed is more important for the wider use cases.
With these changes Cutelyst managed to get 10 - 15% faster on TechEmpower benchmarks, which is great as we are still well positioned as a full stack framework there.
https://github.com/cutelyst/cutelyst/releases/tag/v4.0.0
Have fun, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!