Dear hakkers, we—the Akka committers—are pleased to announce the fourth release candidate for Akka Streams & HTTP. The most notable changes since 1.0-RC3 are:
One last big rename (yes, we are truly sorry about that): while the semantics had evolved around it, we never adapted the name of the FlowMaterializer—which actually is not for Flows but all kinds of Graphs; similarly OperationAttributes have no matching “Operation” that they apply to. Hence we shortened and simplified FlowMaterializer to Materializer ActorFlowMaterializer to ActorMaterializer OperationAttributes to Attributes ActorOperationAttributes to ActorAttributes RunnableFlow to RunnableGraph (for consistency, since this is not a Flow) optimized some primitive Sources to not create Actors (thanks, Viktor!) fixed several problematic edge cases around stream and substream cancellation and error conditions added ActorMaterializer.shutdown method to allow external shutdown added basic framing support for byte streams made TCP closing mode configurable (i.e. whether to enable half-close) added a parallel version of foreach and made Sink.ignore materialize to Future[Unit] made multipart/form-data uploads easier fixed several small kinks in HTTP parsing (cookies, dates, …) expanded documentation (in particular around HTTPS, websockets and the stream testkit) plus lots of minor additions and improvements For the full list please refer to the github milestones for Streams <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues?q=milestone%3Astreams-1.0-RC4+is%3Aclosed> and HTTP <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues?q=milestone%3Ahttp-1.0-RC4+is%3Aclosed>. Our intention (famous last words) is that this should be the last release candidate before 1.0, meaning that we would appreciate if you could test the provided functionality with real-world use-cases and push it to its limits. Outlook and Planning: What about Performance? Version 1.0 is intended to be fully functional but not yet optimized for performance. To make it very clear: Spray currently is a lot faster at serving HTTP responses than Akka HTTP is. We are aware of this and we know that a lot of you are waiting to use it in anger for high-performance applications, but we follow a “correctness first” approach. After 1.0 is released we will start working on performance benchmarking and optimization, the focus of the 1.1 release will be on closing the gap to Spray. Release Statistics 636 files changed, 13061 insertions(+), 6372 deletions(-) commits added removed 37 4268 1023 Johannes Rudolph 25 3309 2078 Endre Sándor Varga 10 625 425 Mathias 8 770 101 Martynas Mickevičius 6 134 446 Viktor Klang 5 383 179 Roland Kuhn 4 505 192 Konrad Malawski 2 7 5 Richard Bradley 2 490 4 Alexander Golubev 1 16 22 Martynas Mickevicius 1 4 4 Philip L. McMahon 1 8 5 Matthias Lüneberg 1 169 19 Alek Storm 1 11 3 Brian Topping 1 14 14 2beaucoup 1 1 1 Daniel Wegener Thanks to Richard, Alexander, Philip, Matthias, Alek, Brian, André and Daniel for your contributions! Happy hakking! -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
