v0.5.2: bump minimum Go version to 1.21

What's Changed

• Bump minimum Go version to 1.21 by @ti-mo in #9

Full Changelog: v0.5.1...v0.5.2

v0.5.1 - Bump dependencies and Go 1.20, drop go-cmp

Yearly maintenance release for Go and dependencies, no functional changes.

What's Changed

• Bump to Go 1.20, all dependencies to latest, drop go-cmp by @ti-mo in #7

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.5.1

2022 Maintenance Release (Go 1.18)

What's Changed

• bump minimum required Go version to 1.18
• bump mdlayher/netlink to 1.7.1
• migrate to GitHub Actions
• add .golangci.yml configuration

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

Improve Netlink i/o performance

• Significant performance improvements in all Netlink i/o: mdlayher/netlink#171
• This version drops support for Go 1.11 and earlier. See mdlayher/netlink#170 for context.

Set Read/Write buffer sizes and deadlines

• Upgrade to mdlayher/netlink 1.1.0
• Added Conn.Set{,Read,Write}Deadline for non-blocking reads/writes
• Added Conn.Set{Read,Write}Buffer for controlling netlink socket buffer sizes

Netlink AttributeDecoder/Encoder

Introduces:

• NewAttributeEncoder() - wrapper that creates a big-endian AttributeEncoder
• NewAttribudeDecoder() - wrapper that creates a big-endian AttributeDecoder
• DecodeNetlink() - returns a netlink.AttributeDecoder for directly decoding netlink attributes
• EncodeNetlink() - encodes a netlink.Message given a pre-filled AttributeEncoder