v0.2.9-alpha

This release contains the following new features:

• Integration with replicators and corto_select seamlessly blends remote data with local data
• The shell can browse data from all connected replicators
• With corto_selectContentType apps can request, for example, a JSON string without loading objects in RAM
• Pluggable serialization allow users build their own content types
• Automatic translation between content types (for example, JSON to XML)
• The corto_suspend API enables detaching object lifecycle from process lifecycle
• Introduced corto_fullpath and corto_path APIs for obtaining object identifiers
• Simplified notification API, specifically regarding instance observers
• Added convenience 'Foreach' macro for iterator types
• Separated infrastructure classes from the lang package into a separate core package
• Shortened filenames by removing redundant prefix (for example, corto_object.c >> object.c)
• Added memory tracer for easier debugging of reference counting bugs
• Decreased footprint of objects
• Destructors are now invoked directly when either corto_suspend or corto_delete is called
• Improved loading of nested package dependencies
• Build system support for C++ specific compiler options
• Build system support for debug & release targets
• HTML generator now generates an index table
• HTML generator can generate documents from regular markdown (no Corto package required)
• Improved font consistency of generated HTML