v1.0.0 - The Virtual Thread Revolution

🚀 LoomProxy

Im are proud to announce the first stable release of LoomProxy, a next-generation API Gateway designed for the modern JVM ecosystem. LoomProxy is built to prove that the era of complex reactive programming (Netty/WebFlux) is evolving: with Java 21, we return to simple, readable blocking code that scales even better than traditional asynchronous systems.

Key Highlights:

• Loom-Native Core: Fully powered by Java 21 Virtual Threads (Project Loom). Scales to millions of concurrent connections with a simple "thread-per-request" model and minimal memory overhead.
• Panama FFI Integration: Experimental support for Linux-native splice(2) and sendfile(2) syscalls. This enables Zero-copy data proxying, moving bytes directly in the kernel space to reduce CPU load and JVM Heap pressure.
• WASM Filter Engine: Integrated Chicory runtime allows you to extend the gateway with custom logic written in Rust, Go, or C++, running safely in a sandboxed WebAssembly environment.
• Resiliency Stack: Built-in production-ready filters including Token Bucket Rate Limiting, Circuit Breaker, Exponential Backoff Retries, and Gzip Compression.
• Proven Performance: Successfully verified via internal benchmarks to handle 10,000+ concurrent tasks in under 3.8 seconds on standard hardware.