version 5.1.8

- fix: matrix/sms_voipms notifications blocked the event loop on timeout;
  make send_notification async, dispatch all channel drivers as non-blocking
  tasks (asyncio.to_thread for sync drivers, asyncio.wait_for for async);
  update all call sites to fire-and-forget via create_task
- feat: add /about page with version, runtime, uptime counter, and repo link
- fix: hbc_mini plugin data format now matches full hbc client so Host
  Overview displays memory, disk, and network metrics correctly

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "hbd"
-version = "5.1.7"
+version = "5.1.8"
 description = "Heartbeat monitoring system — client (hbc) and server (hbd)"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"