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0.1.0

Initial release — free-threading-native ASGI server with HTTP/2, WebSocket, TLS, and multi-worker

Highlights

  • Free-threading native — Built for Python 3.14t (nogil); uses threads when GIL is disabled, processes when enabled
  • Full protocol support — HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, WebSocket, TLS termination
  • Multi-worker — Auto-detects GIL state; scales across CPU cores with SO_REUSEPORT or shared sockets
  • Dev workflow —--reloadwith file watcher, hot module reimport, app factory support
  • Optional speed —pounce[fast]for C-accelerated HTTP parsing via httptools

Protocol & Features

  • HTTP/2 — ALPN negotiation, stream multiplexing, WebSocket over H2 (RFC 8441), priority signals (RFC 9218)
  • WebSocket — Full ASGI lifecycle, RFC 6455 compliant
  • TLS —--ssl-certfile, --ssl-keyfile, secure defaults, ALPN
  • Compression — zstd and gzip content-encoding with Accept-Encoding negotiation
  • Keep-alive — Configurable--keep-alive-timeout, --max-requests-per-connection

Developer Experience

  • Dev reload —--reloadwatches source files and restarts workers
  • Configurable watch —--reload-include and --reload-dirfor templates and assets
  • App factory —pounce "myapp:create_app()"works out of the box
  • Lifecycle scopes — Per-worker startup/shutdown hooks for async resource setup

Status

  • 188+ tests (unit, integration, ASGI 3.0 compliance)
  • HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, WebSocket, TLS, multi-worker
  • ASGI 3.0 compliant

Install

uv add "bengal-pounce==0.1.0"