# 0.4.0 URL: /releases/0.4.0/ Section: releases Tags: release -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Highlights Zstd compression — Zero-dependency content-encoding via Python 3.14 stdlib (PEP 784) Server-Timing headers — Auto-injected parse/app/encode durations for browser DevTools Dev reload — --reload flag with file watcher for automatic worker restart httptools backend — Optional C-accelerated HTTP/1.1 parsing via pounce[fast] Added Content-encoding negotiation: zstd > gzip > identity Server-Timing header injection with per-request timing --reload flag for development (watches source files, restarts workers) httptools backend for HTTP/1.1 (pounce[fast] extra) compression_min_size configuration option Streaming compression for chunked responses Status 31 source modules 426 tests passing HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, WebSocket, TLS, multi-worker Full ASGI 3.0 compliance Install uv add "bengal-pounce==0.4.0" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Metadata: - Word Count: 99 - Reading Time: 1 minutes