Next PRs for review:
Immediate advantages
UNIX domain sockets for JSON-RPC
- Old feature request: #5029
- UNIX sockets have been added to ZMQ and Tor proxy already
- UNIX sockets with libevent doesn’t work
Remove a dependency
- libevent hasn’t had a release since 2020
- The xz utils backdoor raised some concern among contributors in the 2024/04/18 IRC meeting
Current libevent usage in the project
See this report by @fjahr. A few of these have already been addressed, like #29904