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Version v1.1.0

⚡ distlimit v1.1.0 — Pluggable Architecture & Enterprise Security Hardening

We are thrilled to announce the official release of distlimit v1.1.0! This milestone update transforms distlimit into a fully modular, enterprise-grade distributed rate limiter for Go, featuring pluggable strategy algorithms, security-hardened middlewares, 64-sharded memory management, and dual-tier circuit breaker resilience.

🔌 1. Pluggable Strategy Architecture

  • 5 Standard Algorithms Included:
    • Token Bucket: Burst-friendly rate limiting.
    • Leaky Bucket: Smooth traffic shaping for third-party integrations.
    • Fixed Window: Ultra-fast counter reset protection.
    • Sliding Window Log: 100% exact precision for strict quotas.
    • Sliding Window Counter: $O(1)$ memory weighted moving average precision.
  • 100% Backward Compatible: Existing v1.0.0 users can upgrade seamlessly without breaking API changes via Go type aliases and automatic default fallback algorithm configurations.

🛡️ 2. Security & QA Audit Remediation (P0 & P1 Fixes)

Following a comprehensive QA & Security Engineering audit, the following critical issues have been remediated and verified:

  • [P0 - Security] Anti-IP Spoofing Shield:
    • Native CIDR-validated WithTrustedProxies inspection implemented across all HTTP (net/http, gin, echo, fiber) and gRPC middleware adapters.
    • Headers X-Forwarded-For and X-Real-IP are strictly ignored unless the direct connection (RemoteAddr/PeerAddr) originates from a verified trusted proxy subnet.
  • [P0 - Redis Cluster] CROSSSLOT Compatibility:
    • Wrapped key generation with Redis Hash Tags {} (distlimit:{key}) in driver/redis.
    • Guarantees that dynamic window/sequence keys land on the exact same Redis Hash Slot in clustered environments, preventing CROSSSLOT execution errors.
  • [P0 - Race Condition] Atomic ZSET Member Uniqueness:
    • Integrated an atomic Redis INCR sequence generator (key .. ":seq") in the Sliding Window Log Lua.
    • Eliminates member overwrites during high-concurrency requests landing on the exact same millisecond score.
  • [P1 - Memory] 64-Sharded In-Memory Map Architecture:
    • Converted driver/memory to a 64-sharded lock architecture using FNV-1a key hashing.
    • Eliminates global mutex lock contention during high-throughput requests and background cleanup runs.
  • [P1 - Memory] Heap Retention Truncation:
    • Added active slice re-allocation buffer logic in slidinglog in-memory state when array capacity waste exceeds 50%.
    • Prevents gradual RAM bloat and allows Go Garbage Collector to reclaim unused memory.
  • [P1 - Resilience] Half-Open Circuit Breaker Probing:
    • Implemented an atomic CAS (Compare-And-Swap) single-request probing mechanism in driver/hybrid.
    • Prevents Thundering Herd request stampedes against Redis during recovery after an outage cool-off period.
  • [P2 - Context] Context Cancellation Check:
    • Added early select <-ctx.Done() checks in the in-memory driver to avoid mutating state if the caller’s request context was canceled.

🌐 3. Framework Middlewares & Runnable Examples

Complete, production-ready middleware adapters and runnable examples included in examples/:

  • ⚡ Fiber v3 (middleware/fiber, examples/fiber-slidingcounter)
  • 🍸 Gin Framework (middleware/gin, examples/gin-hybrid)
  • 🔊 Echo v4 & v5 (middleware/echo, middleware/echov5, examples/echo, examples/echov5)
  • 🌐 Standard net/http & Chi (middleware/nethttp, examples/nethttp)
  • 📡 gRPC Unary & Streaming Interceptors (middleware/grpc, examples/grpc)

📊 4. Performance & Benchmarks

Benchmarked on AMD 3020e Linux x86_64:

Algorithm Performance Memory Overhead Allocations
Sliding Log 20.36 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
Token Bucket 46.18 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
Leaky Bucket 47.76 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
Fixed Window 77.27 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
Sliding Counter 129.10 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op

🚀 5. Installation & Upgrade

To update your Go project to v1.1.0:

Terminal window
go get github.com/balramadan/distlimit@v1.1.0

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/balramadan/distlimit/compare/v1.0.1...v1.1.0