LotusRPC release notes

LotusRPC is an RPC framework for embedded systems. Here are the release notes.

lotusrpc 0.10.0 (2026-02-27)

Added option to embed definition in generated server code. This way server and client can never go out of sync (#81)
Added a meta service with ID 255. this service contains an error stream to report internal errors from server to client. The meta service is not directly accessible to users but provides an enhanced user experience (#83)
Add version function in meta service. Allows client to check compatibility with server. (#84)
Reference semantics for array and string

Breaking change: This change may require changes to existing service files (deriving from *_shim class). (#185)
Added bytearray convenience type. LotusRPC bytearray has flexible length, handling in C++ is more efficient than ‘array of uint8_t’ and is translated to bytes/bytearray/memoryview in Python (#186)

Fix code generation for array parameter in a stream (#188)
Size field now encodes message size minus 1. This way a message of size 256 is possible in a 256-byte receive/transmit buffer.

Breaking change: This change causes binary incompatibility with all previous versions of LotusRPC (#202)

#16, #106, #160, #167, #170, #176
Breaking change: C++ service shims no longer get a ‘_ServiceShim’ postfix, but simply ‘_shim’ instead