Secure Shell (stable) updated to 0.78

[Mike Frysinger]

i've just released Secure Shell (stable) 0.78 which switches socket APIs from chrome.sockets to Direct Sockets.  the Chrome folks want to kill off chrome.sockets extension APIs as part of the Chrome Apps turndown, and Direct Sockets are a more future proof API.  it has a better runtime too and doesn't suffer from the random socket leakage we see with Chrome Sockets.

it's been enabled in the dev channel for sometime without any known issues, so rolling out to stable by default.  if you see issues, please let us know, and you can workaround it --no-field-trial-direct-sockets.

Secure Shell (nassh) ChangeLog:

# 0.78, 2026-06-04, Switch to Direct Sockets by default.

* nassh: sockets: Enable direct sockets in the stable version.
* nassh: plugin: Update to 0.77.