Release Notes (v0.1.41, 2025-04-26)

Welcome to the inaugural April 2025 release of GoEventBus, your in-process, lock-free event bus for Go. This version delivers a major overhaul—with context-aware handlers, flexible back-pressure, observability, and async support—designed to power low-latency pipelines, microservices, and game loops.

Highlights

• Context-Aware Handlers
  Every event handler now receives a context.Context, unlocking deadlines, cancellation, and tracing for your event-driven workflows.

• Lock-Free Ring Buffer
  Under the hood is a cache-aligned, atomic ring buffer that dispatches events without locks or syscalls—delivering sub-microsecond hand-offs and zero garbage.

• Configurable Overrun Policies
  Choose how to handle a full buffer with three strategies:

  • DropOldest (default): discard the oldest events to make room
  • Block: back-pressure until space becomes available
  • ReturnError: fail fast with ErrBufferFull for explicit retry logic

• Async or Sync Processing
  Flip the Async flag to switch between inline, predictable dispatch or massive parallelism via a worker pool sized to your CPU count.

• Middleware & Hooks
  Introduce cross-cutting behavior with middleware chains, and tap into execution with before-, after-, and error-hooks for observability and instrumentation.

• Built-In Metrics
  Track total published, processed, and errored events directly via Metrics(), without additional instrumentation.

• Zero Dependencies
  Drop-in import (github.com/Raezil/GoEventBus), no brokers to manage—just Go 1.21+ and you’re off.

Changelog

v0.1.41 (2025-04-26)

🚀 Added

• New context.Context support for all handlers to enable cancellation, timeouts, and tracing.
• Lock-free ring buffer implementation with cache-line padding for minimal latency.
• Overrun policies: DropOldest, Block, and ReturnError for flexible back-pressure strategies.
• Async flag on EventStore to toggle between synchronous and asynchronous dispatch.
• Middleware support via Use(mw Middleware) to wrap handlers.
• Hooks:
  • OnBefore (before handler execution)
  • OnAfter (after handler execution)
  • OnError (on handler error)
• Worker pool sized to runtime.NumCPU() for async processing when Async=true.
• Metrics() method exposing publishedCount, processedCount, and errorCount.
• Drain(ctx) and Close(ctx) for graceful shutdown of async workers.

🔧 Changed

• Default back-pressure policy remains DropOldest to preserve prior behavior.
• Improved API ergonomics: event IDs and projections are explicit in the Event struct.
• Internal buffer size validation now panics if not a power of two.

🐞 Fixed

• Corrected atomic indexing in Subscribe to prevent rare race conditions under extreme load.
• Ensured Publish skips nil slots to avoid spurious dispatch attempts.

🗑️ Removed

• Deprecated previous no-context handler signature (fully replaced by HandlerFunc).