Dear hakkers,
we—the Akka committers—are very pleased to announce the final release of Akka Streams & HTTP 1.0. After countless hours and many months of work we now consider Streams & HTTP good enough for evaluation and production use, subject to the caveat on performance below. We will continue to improve the implementation as well as to add features over the coming months, which will be marked as 1.x releases—in particular concerning HTTPS support (exposing certificate information per request and allowing session renegotiation) and websocket client features—before we finally add these new modules to the 2.4 development branch. In the meantime both Streams and HTTP can be used with Akka 2.4 artifacts since these are binary backwards compatibility with Akka 2.3. A Note on Performance Version 1.0 is 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. What Changed since 1.0–RC4 - Plenty documentation improvements on advanced stages <https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/17966>, modularity <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/17337> and Http javadsl <https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/17965>, - Improvements to Http stability under high load <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/17854>, - The streams cook-book translated to Java <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/16787>, - A number of new stream operators: recover <https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/17998> and generalized UnzipWith <https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/17998> contributed by Alexander Golubev, - The javadsl for Akka Http <https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/17988> is now nicer to use from Java 8 and when returning Futures, - also Akka Streams and Http should now be properly packaged for OSGi <https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/17979>, thanks to Rafał Krzewski. The complete list of closed tickets can be found in the 1.0 milestones of streams <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues?q=milestone%3Astreams-1.0> and http <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues?q=milestone%3Ahttp-1.0> on github. Release Statistics Since the RC4 release: - 32 tickets closed - 252 files changed, 16861 insertions (+), 1834 deletions(-), - … and a total of 9 contributors! commits added removed 26 2342 335 Johannes Rudolph 11 10112 97 Endre Sándor Varga 9 757 173 Martynas Mickevičius 8 2821 487 Konrad Malawski 3 28 49 2beaucoup 3 701 636 Viktor Klang 2 43 7 Rafał Krzewski 2 801 42 Alexander Golubev 1 8 8 Heiko Seeberger -- Cheers, Konrad 'ktoso’ Malawski Akka <http://akka.io/> @ Typesafe <http://typesafe.com/> -- >>>>>>>>>> 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.
