chore(main): release 0.5.0

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0.5.0 (2025-09-06)

Features

• Add env var to log server errors (#198) (f06a242)
• Add health check endpoint (#197) (881137a)
• Add YAML config parser (#208) (2f5c062)
• Handle OPTIONS message locally (#209) (708d7ab)
• Support YAML configuration for Launcher (#211) (15d2797)

Bug Fixes

• Add missing setting for direct path enablement (#145) (5099d98)
• Add null check for healthcheck server (#202) (c4390f5)
• Attach appropriate stream_id for error response (#149) (54ba573)
• Correct method name (#127) (0a5fa64)
• Create custom serverFrameCodec wiith DseProtocolV2ServerCodecs t… (#205) (61292d6)
• Fix lint (#184) (177b45c)

Performance Improvements

• Add support for virtual threads (#169) (393ae0a)
• Directly write ByteString received from gRPC response to socket to avoid copies (#174) (8d5a2b7)
• Only decode bytes to frame for query, execute and batch messages (#163) (b0f279d)
• Small optimizations to reduce CPU overhead on hot paths (#190) (f0d9777)

Documentation

• Add cqlsh instructions (#187) (bb8dec9)
• Add YCSB doc (#173) (e2703b4)
• View and manage client-side metrics (#188) (3d2b44b)

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