Helios 2.1.3 Stable Release

2.1.3 Aug 18 2016

• Full Mono support now available for Helios 2.x.
• Improved exception logging inside TcpSocketChannel and others.

You can see the full set of changes for Helios 2.1.3 here.

Helios 2.1.2 Stable Release

2.1.2 Jul 14 2016

• Made DNS resolution configurable - can target IPV4 / IPV6 or any other AddressFamily.
• Caught ObjectDisposedExceptions that are thrown on shutdown so they are no longer logged.

Helios 2.1.1 Stable Release

2.1.1 May 27 2016

• Fixed byte buffers - there were reporting that they were encoding as LittleEndian. Turns out they were using BigEndian. This has been fixed.
• Fixed issue with AbstractDerivedByteBuf where calling Retain would return the original underlying buffer and not the derived buffer.
• Made configuration warnings in ServerBootstrap less cryptic.

Helios 2.1 Stable Release

2.1.0 May 16 2016

• Added support for batch writes
• Made write objects reusable
• IPv6 support for legacy API

Net performance impact of above changes as reported by build server:

Before

Metric	Units	Max	Average	Min	StdDev
TotalCollections [Gen0]	collections / s	40.14	40.14	40.14	0.00
TotalCollections [Gen1]	collections / s	2.86	2.86	2.86	0.00
TotalCollections [Gen2]	collections / s	0.53	0.53	0.53	0.00
TotalBytesAllocated	bytes / s	293,950.63	293,950.63	293,950.63	0.00
[Counter] inbound ops	operations / s	55,782.90	55,782.90	55,782.90	0.00
[Counter] outbound ops	operations /	55,783.07	55,783.07	55,783.07	0.00
Max concurrent connections	operations	440.00	440.00	440.00	0.00

After

Metric	Units	Max	Average	Min	StdDev
TotalCollections [Gen0]	collections	26.41	26.41	26.41	0.00
TotalCollections [Gen1]	collections	8.33	8.33	8.33	0.00
TotalCollections [Gen2]	collections	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.00
TotalBytesAllocated	bytes	38,170.63	38,170.63	38,170.63	0.00
[Counter] inbound ops	operations	99,728.63	99,728.63	99,728.63	0.00
[Counter] outbound ops	operations	99,728.67	99,728.67	99,728.67	0.00
Max concurrent connections	operations	945.00	945.00	945.00	0.00

Helios v1.4

Major update to Helios designed to help support Akka.NET v1.

• Added Mono support to all outbound clients. All benchmarks have been run on Mono as well as the full build suite.
• Fixed data loss issued caused during periods of high-speed writes. This has been resolved.
• Added stubs for tracing and monitoring.
• Integrated Helios.DedicatedThreadPool for a massive performance boost on the DedicatedThreadFiber, used by default on most socket clients.