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Latest PECL Releases:swoole 4.2.0+ Add new coroutine hooks, tcp, udp, ssl, tls, sleep, usleep, and file read and write, mkdir...etc, be async automatically New ability of the server/client to send the swoole_websocket_frame object directly, support any type of frame construction, send and receive, support __toString Better AIO Add the ProcessPool::getProcess method Support --with-hiredis-dir, --with-nghttp2-dir compiling parameters Enhanced send_yield, automatic retry within the timeout Enhanced timer round detection, repaired millisecond-level ultra-short timer execution error Enable TCP_NODELAY by default, turn off Nagle algorithm, reduce latency More standardized PECL package Re-support the sending of HTTP-header with custom content-length of 0 Fixed an issue that can not access the Private/Protect properties in the class after coroutine yield caused by EG(scope) not switched in PHP7.0.x Fixed the error opcode and finish status in websocket_server Fixed the async_dns_lookup bug Completed the code about channel.c overflow space handling Fixed the bug of channel->close Fixed the bug of coroutine socket->recv_package Repair MySQL Statement->execute does not support null parameters Support for identifying form-data encoding with a semicolon-separated boundary Add many high-quality unit tests, greater stability Remove useless time wheel algorithm gRPC 1.15.0- gRPC C Core 1.15 uptake

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As a React developer, you should be already familiar with the principle that state should not be mutated directly. You might be wondering what that means (most of us had that confusion when we started out). This tutorial will do justice to that: you will understand what immutable state is and the need for it. You'll also learn how to use Immer to work with immutable state and the benefits of using it.

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