v1.8.0

HTTP v1.8.0

Diff since v1.7.4

Closed issues:

• TCP keepalive is not respected when re-using connections (#612)
• Store original error catch_backtrace() in RequestError (#1003)
• Intermittent pauses in connection (#1008)
• Add queryparams overload for HTTP.Request (#1009)
• how to use simple "auth" for API_KEY in post request (#1018)
• Establish connection / TTFB / DNS lookup time information (#1025)
• Investigate single-threaded, async HTTP.request performance (#1032)
• connection_limit parameter ignored after request is called for the first time (#1033)

Merged pull requests:

• Properly trigger CorsMiddleware on OPTIONS method (#1005) (@ahjulstad)
• Fix a couple of typos in docs (#1006) (@Drvi)
• typo fix (#1007) (@AbhimanyuAryan)
• Add URIs.queryparams overloads (#1012) (@chris-b1)
• Remove Inifile as a dep in Project.toml (#1013) (@sjkelly)
• Write cookie separator with space (#1016) (@gustafsson)
• Document verbose=-1 kwarg for HTTP.serve (#1022) (@fonsp)
• Add AbstractDict for request bodies (#1029) (@screwdog)
• A few random stability/precompile improvements (#1030) (@sjkelly)
• Summary of changes in this PR: (#1034) (@quinnj)
• Parse set-cookie expires with trailing GMT (#1035) (@gustafsson)