built-in support for XML requests and responses (many thanks to Dan Cytermann for the nice contribution!)

the dockerized web platform has been extracted out in a separate project: Rapidoid Web Platform

end of life for the rapidoid-fluent module (last released version: 5.4.6), its successor is essentials4j

support for high-performance TCP clients (TCP.client())

simple high-performance HTTP client (experimental)

extended networking capabilities (rapidoid-net module)

some bug fixes

many small improvements

the rapidoid-html module has been merged into the rapidoid-gui module

the rapidoid-fluent module has been removed

renamed jackson to objectMapper in the customization API

renamed JsonResponseRenderer to HttpResponseRenderer in the customization API

renamed JsonRequestBodyParser to HttpRequestBodyParser in the customization API

the process management components have been moved out from the rapidoid-commons module, into the Rapidoid Web Platform