icey 2.4.0

Added

• Repo-local package manager layouts under packaging/ with make package-conan and make package-vcpkg entry points for local consumer validation
• Homebrew tap formulae, Debian / PPA source-package scaffolding, and release hooks for those package surfaces
• Browser smoke coverage for the src/webrtc/apps/media-server/web/ frontend and media-server interop path
• Reportable microbenchmark runner plus focused parse/probe benches for packet stream, HTTP, WebSocket, and STUN hot paths
• Focused webrtcbench and symplebench targets covering:
  • WebRTC sender dispatch
  • WebRTC receiver dispatch
  • Symple room fanout
  • Symple client parse/dispatch
• API overview quality checks in the docs toolchain to catch shallow or missing generated reference summaries
• Internal Symple protocol/state helpers for welcome parsing, sanitized presence emission, room reconciliation, and roster presence application, backed by focused unit coverage
• webrtc_support as a dedicated support library for Symple/WebSocket signallers, including the server-side virtual-peer adapter now used by samples and media-server

Changed

• WebRTC browser/media-server behavior after 2.3.0: codec negotiation is tighter, browser offer handling is stricter, and PeerSession / track flow is more defensive under real browser traffic
• Public package, docs, and sample surface now use lowercase icey consistently, with no retained Icey CMake/package-manager naming
• Public lifecycle verbs are now standardized on start() / stop() across HTTP client/server, Symple client/server, and TURN client surfaces; the previous spellings were removed instead of being kept as compatibility aliases
• WebRTC internals are now cut along explicit seams instead of monolithic translation units:
  • PeerSession state/signalling/RTC work is split across peersession.cpp, peersessionsignalling.cpp, and peersessionrtc.cpp
  • remote answer scoping lives in remotemediaplan.cpp
  • codec support is centralized in codecregistry.cpp
  • media-server runtime code is split under apps/media-server/internal/
• Public Symple and TURN configuration handoff now favors value-style option snapshots instead of live mutable option bags
• Public option mutation is now explicit on package-manager surfaces via mutableOptions(), while the public AV encoder interfaces expose const option views
• PeerSession::Config now exposes media settings under config.media, and answer-session media options are derived explicitly from the remote offer's mids, directions, and payload types instead of relying on looser implicit defaults
• Symple client/server internals are now organized under src/symple/src/client/ and src/symple/src/server/, with shared wire helpers in src/symple/src/protocol.*
• API reference coverage has been deepened across the core modules, WebRTC, and the pacm/pluga surfaces, with reorganized Sourcey guides and workflows
• icey docs now consume published moxygen / sourcey npm releases instead of git-pinned or exact-pinned toolchain versions
• Packaging assets are centralized under packaging/ instead of spreading Conan and vcpkg files across the repo root
• Installed icey.pc metadata now uses the current package-manager-facing description instead of the old networking-only tagline
• Browser support claims are now explicit:
  • Chromium and Firefox are validated by the committed Playwright smoke
  • Playwright WebKit on Linux is treated as non-authoritative for Safari/WebRTC publish-path claims

Fixed

• Exported CMake package consumers now tolerate dependency target-name differences across FetchContent, Conan, and vcpkg installs
• Repo-local Conan and vcpkg packaging validation now passes sequentially, and installed icey.h headers no longer leak absolute build/source paths
• Browser media-server smoke harness failures and related WebRTC sample pipeline regressions that were blocking stricter interop coverage
• Symple-backed WebRTC signalling now enforces full user|id peer identity on the public call boundary instead of accepting ambiguous bare user/session forms
• WebRTC receive-side codec detection no longer stringifies track descriptions back into SDP just to rediscover codec/clock data on bind or record paths
• Symple clients now transition cleanly to Error on underlying transport failures, including initial WebSocket connect failures, via explicit http::ClientConnection error propagation
• pacm JSON handling in the submodule update path, keeping the external package-manager surface aligned with the current docs/API snapshots