v0.7.0 Released

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CppWAMP v0.7.0 has been released. This fixes the long-standing problem of not being able to use recent versions of Boost.Asio. Please consult the CHANGELOG for other changes. In particular, there have been extensive changes to the CMake build.

The project's GitHub pages that hosts the Doxygen documentation is currently broken. I've seen reports that it can take a while for the GitHub pages to work after making changes. I will seek tech support later this week if it doesn't fix itself.

Here's what I have planned for further development of this library:

• Adopt the jsoncons library's cursor interface to implement the wamp::Json and wamp::Msgpack codecs, while retaining wamp::Variant as the document type. This would also allow implementing a CBOR codec, although wamp::Variant currently does not support tags.
• Make wamp::Session more thread-safe.
• Remove wamp::CoroSession and make it so that wamp::Session can accept any completion token (yield, use_future, etc) supported by Boost.Asio.
• Add embedded router functionality.

I was planning on adding websocket support, but I may not even need it because I could possibly use the nginx nginx_tcp_proxy_module instead for our company's closed-source server app that uses CppWAMP.

I've been working on a closed-source serialization library intended to replace wamp::Variant, as well as the RapidJSON and Msgpack dependencies. It features the capability to directly encode/decode C++ types without involving an intermediary document type like wamp::Variant. Development of that serialization library has been put on hold due to more pressing concerns. I don't know yet if I'll be authorized to make that serialization library open-source.

In other news, the CppWAMP Google Group is now closed for further discussions, in favor of this discussion forum here on GitHub.