Play v2.8.0-M5 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-09-13 // over 4 years ago
  • ๐Ÿš€ The Play Team is pleased to announce the release of Play Framework 2.8.0-M5. This is the fourth milestone release of Play 2.8.x series. Like all milestone releases, the primary goal is to get feedback. So please let us know if something isn't working or you see something that should be improved. If you are the author of a Play module, we would recommend checking out this release to see how it affect your module.

    ๐Ÿš€ There are many improvements and changes at this new release, and you can see them all in Github milestone.

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changelog

    Some of the most relevant changes are:

    1. Akka 2.6.0-M7: as you can see in our roadmap, support Akka 2.6 is a priority, so we are closely tracking Akka 2.6 milestone releases to discover possible integrations problems sooner than later. We didn't have a release using Akka 2.6.0-M6, but we recommend to read its release announcement to understand better what changed. 0๏ธโƒฃ 2. Play applications won't depend on Omnidoc by default anymore : playOmnidoc setting is still available, but we are changing the default to false.
    2. Multiple improvements to Results APIs : Java sendFile, sendPath and sendResource now support an onClose callback; send* methods now accept a parameter to set Content-Type header; the type parameter for file names when serving files is now an Optional which makes the API nicer when you need to send Optional.empty (instead of null). โšก๏ธ 4. Dependencies updates : thanks to scala-steward, all dependencies were updated to the newest versions.

    ๐Ÿ“š There are also many small updates to other APIs, documentation, and configurations. See the full list of changes here:

    1. Github milestone
    2. All changes

    Credits

    Finally, thanks to the community for their help with detailed bug reports, discussion about new features, and pull requests review.

    ๐Ÿ‘ Thanks to Lightbend for their continued sponsorship of the Play core team's efforts. Lightbend offers commercial support for Play.

    Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release: Scala Steward, Marcos Pereira, Dale Wijnand, Matthias Kurz, Renato Cavalcanti, Ignasi Marimon-Clos, golemiso, To-om, Emmanuel Guiton, nickweitzel, Jiangwr, srirachapills, Emmanuel GUITON, Seung-Zin Nam, Tim Moore, YourPsychiatrist.