Play v2.8.0-M6 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-10-16 // over 4 years ago
  • ๐Ÿš€ The Play Team is pleased to announce the release of Play Framework 2.8.0-M6. This is the fifth 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 both 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-M8 : 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. Akka 2.6.0-M8 brought changes to its AbstractBehavior class, which required changes to the Akka Typed runtime dependency injection support, that is a part of Play 2.8.

    ๐Ÿ“š There is a long tail of other updates to 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: Matthias Kurz, Dale Wijnand, gurkankaymak, Scala Steward, Renato Cavalcanti, Marcos Pereira, Ignasi Marimon-Clos, Jafer Khan, Eugene Yokota, a1kemist, Albaro Pereyra, Dominik Dorn.