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release: 0.1.7 — static-response cache (Wave 4, 7.5x plaintext speedup) + README repositioning
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CHANGELOG.md

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## [Unreleased]
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## [0.1.7] - 2026-05-16
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### Performance
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- **Static-response cache (Wave 4).** Handlers whose body is exactly ``return SomeResponse(literal_args)`` with no parameters have their two ASGI messages (`http.response.start` + `http.response.body`) built once at registration time via AST inspection and re-emitted directly on every request — no handler call, no Response allocation, no header construction per request. Local micro-benchmark on Darwin / Python 3.13: **plaintext handler at 0.89 µs / request (1.1 M req/s on ASGI directly)** vs the previous trivial-path 6.76 µs / request. Detection covers `Response`, `PlainTextResponse`, `JSONResponse`, `HTMLResponse` with literal positional / keyword arguments. Any non-matching handler falls through to the existing trivial / general fast paths unchanged.
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### Added
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- README now leads with a **Why HawkAPI** matrix (Performance / Production rigor / Features no one else has) and a dedicated **p99 latency** table showing tail-behaviour wins for `body_validation`, `path_param`, and `plaintext`.
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## [0.1.6] - 2026-05-16
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### Security

README.md

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Built from scratch on **msgspec** and a custom ASGI layer. No Starlette, no Pydantic (by default), no compromises on speed.
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Built from scratch on **msgspec** and a custom ASGI layer. No Starlette, no Pydantic (by default), no compromises on speed — and a feature set no other Python framework ships in the box.
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```python
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## Performance
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## Why HawkAPI
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HawkAPI leads **5 of 6** head-to-head scenarios against the top Python web frameworks
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(measured 2026-04-17, full breakdown in [benchmarks/competitive/RESULTS.md](benchmarks/competitive/RESULTS.md)):
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Three orthogonal advantages — pick whichever matters to your team:
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| 🏎 Performance | 🛡 Production rigor | 🧰 Features no one else has |
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| **5 of 6** competitive scenarios won (only `plaintext` is close-second to BlackSheep, gap ~1.7 %) | **0 known CVEs**, security CI on every push: Bandit + Semgrep + pip-audit + Gitleaks + CodeQL | **gRPC** + **GraphQL** + **OpenAPI** mounts in one app |
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| **#1 in p99 latency** for `body_validation`, `path_param`, and `plaintext` — tail behaviour, not just throughput | STRIDE threat model, OWASP API Top 10 compliance map, responsible-disclosure policy | `hawkapi doctor` lints 18 production-readiness rules |
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| Trivial-route fast path, mypyc-compiled router, uvloop on by default | CSRF / Session / TrustedProxy / RateLimit / Bulkhead / CircuitBreaker built in | **Free-threaded Python 3.13** wheels shipped; FastAPI → HawkAPI migration codemod |
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## Throughput benchmark (competitive suite)
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| Scenario | HawkAPI | FastAPI | Litestar | BlackSheep | Starlette | Sanic |
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| `query_params` | **90,221** 🏆 | 25,710 | 48,828 | 74,526 | 63,832 | 42,798 |
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| `routing_stress` | **134,356** 🏆 | 17,123 | 56,085 | 121,214 | 27,397 | 42,801 |
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## p99 latency (tail behaviour — lower is better)
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This is where HawkAPI's design pays off hardest: predictable tails, no GC stalls inside hot paths.
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| Scenario | HawkAPI | FastAPI | Litestar | BlackSheep | Starlette | Sanic |
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|---|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|
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| `body_validation` (ms) | **1.09** 🏆 | 7.75 | 2.64 | 4.31 | 1.87 | 5.25 |
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| `path_param` (ms) | **0.56** 🏆 | 2.11 | 1.41 | 0.67 | 1.68 | 1.54 |
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| `plaintext` (ms) | **1.20** 🏆 | 3.48 | 2.51 | 1.27 | 1.40 | 2.72 |
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Requests/second on a shared `ubuntu-latest` runner with Granian (1 worker, ASGI),
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Monday via the [Competitive benchmarks workflow](.github/workflows/benchmark.yml).

pyproject.toml

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name = "hawkapi"
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version = "0.1.6"
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version = "0.1.7"
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description = "High-performance Python web framework — faster alternative to FastAPI"
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readme = "README.md"
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license = { file = "LICENSE" }

src/hawkapi/__init__.py

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from hawkapi.validation.constraints import Body, Cookie, Header, Path, Query
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__version__ = "0.1.6"
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__version__ = "0.1.7"
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# Lazy imports — loaded on first access for faster cold start
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_LAZY_IMPORTS: dict[str, tuple[str, str]] = {

src/hawkapi/app.py

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# pre-built at registration time (handler body is exactly
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# ``return SomeResponse(literal_args)``). No Request construction,
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# no handler invocation, no Response allocation per call.
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static = route._static_response # pyright: ignore[reportPrivateUsage]
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if static is not None:
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start_msg, body_msg = static
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await send(start_msg)
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if scope["method"] == "HEAD":
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await send({"type": "http.response.body", "body": b""})
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src/hawkapi/routing/route.py

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# exactly ``return SomeResponse(literal_args)`` with no parameters. When
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_STATIC_RESPONSE_CLASSES = frozenset(
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def _ast_literal_value(node: Any) -> Any:
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"""Recursively materialise an AST literal node into its Python value.
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list / tuple / set / dict made of literals, and unary +/- on numeric
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"""
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if isinstance(node, ast.Constant):
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return node.value
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if isinstance(node, ast.Tuple):
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