GameNetworkingSockets

Added a native ICE client, so P2P can be done without WebRTC. This client is beta and is not enabled by default, unless WebRTC support is disabled. The client does not currently support TURN.

Improvements and bugfixes:

• Fix protocol bug in malicious sender protection, that could cause asserts and possibly dropped reliable messages if packet loss and latency were both extremely high.
• Poll...

Version 1.4.0 adds support for multiple lanes, improves compliance with vcpkg best practices, and has numerous smaller bugfixes and improvements.

This brings the library in sync with the Steamworks SDK version 153a.

Multi-lane support

"Lanes" can be used to control head-of-line blocking behaviour. You can control the priority level of each lane and how bandwidth should be shared betwee...

Major changes

Performance improvements

Implemented a fine-grained locking strategy to greatly reduce lock contention, especially if API calls are made from multiple threads. (See issue #50.)

Added ISteamNetworkingMessages

This interface is primarily useful for porting existing code that expects to be able to make ad-hoc sendto/recvfrom calls to arbitrary addresses, and does not c...

• Added support for peer-to-peer connections.
  • NAT-punched connections, using google webrtc's ICE implementation.
  • Plugin architecture for signaling service.
  • Symmetric connect mode
  • For full details, see README_P2P.md
• Reworked callback mechanism, improving compatibility with Steamworks version.
• Easier Windows configuration using vcpkg
• Numerous bugfixes, e...

Changes from v1.0:

• Added poll groups
• Added method to send multiple messages in a single API call without copying the message payload
• Added methods to set options at socket creation time, or set multiple options atomically
• Reworked flat interface
• Libsodium support
• Numerous bugfixes, etc.

This update corresponds to the Steamworks SDK 1.48 release.