TetherFutureNet (dropping support for older Android N versions)

Future versions of TetherFuseNet will bring support for a brand new proxy engine backed by the powerful Netty library. The engine will be opt-in by default at first, only for the brave, but will eventually be made the default engine and then even later become the only engine.

The by-hand written proxy code is decent but struggling to adapt to the modern web with new clients and modern behaviors. Netty is a well supported, battle tested library that should better serve users.

The downside is that the latest versions of Netty ONLY supports Android API 26 and up (Oreo). There are <1% of pyamsoft users stuck on Android 7 and 7.1 (which are just about a decade old at this point), so while this change will largely not impact anyone, it will impact this sub-1-percent group. Sadly, the reality of technology is that the quick pace of the world around us requires the adoption of generally newer and newer technologies.

Going forward all pyamsoft Android applications will require a minimum Android version of Oreo (26), or higher if the required core functionality expects a newer API version. All existing users who are still on Android 7/7.1 can continue to use existing versions of applications, but they can not be supported moving forward.

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