Dear hakkers,
we—the Akka committers—are proud to announce a new patch release of Akka 2.4. This release contains a number of fixes and improvements spread out across many of the Akka modules and the documentation. As usual, this version is a drop-in replacement for any previous 2.4.x series version and maintains binary compatibility according to the rules outlined here <http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.4/common/binary-compatibility-rules.html>. Some noteworthy changes in the 2.4.8 release are: - HTTP Connection Pools don’t cache a resolved DNS address forever anymore (which is useful for DNS based service location) (#20690 <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/20690>) - HTTP Connection Pools can be configured to keep a “hot” number of connections open eagerly, to decrease first-request-on-pool latency significantly (20456 <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/20456>) - Ported “Handling Blocking operations” document from an excellent StackOverflow answer <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34641861/akka-http-blocking-in-a-future-blocks-the-server/34645097#34645097> (#20469 <https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/20469>) - Distributed Data now takes advantage of the WeaklyUp state (#18399 <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/18399>) The full list of changes since the last milestone is available under the 2.4.8 <https://github.com/akka/akka/milestone/89?closed=1> milestone on github for your reference. Akka Team Blog As already announced over various other channels earlier this week–we're re-launching the Akka Team Blog – “Let it Crash!” <http://blog.akka.io/>! If you're interested in some top notch technical content straight from the team, we recommend to give it a look (and subscribe). The content on the blog will be more 'lose', while we keep the news section of the page for... news. Please look forward to our new tech posts on the blog, and more upcoming release announcements on the news part of the site (on http://akka.io/news). Credits Thanks to the Community! For this release we had the help of 40 committers. Especially we would like to thanks the various hakkers who helped migrate the Akka Streams internals to the new and awesome GraphStage in a great <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/20466> collaborative <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/20288> effort <https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/19361> over the last month. Thanks @Hawstein, @gosubpl, @RichardImaoka, @fagossa, @Zhxiaogg, @danxmoran and everyone contributing to this effort! We also would like to give a special thanks to 4 of scalac <http://scalac.io>‘s developers (Patryk, Michał, Piotr and Krzysztof) for collaborating with us more closely this month. While learning the ropes of Akka HTTP internals they were able to contribute some useful and challenging features–we’re hoping to see more of those in the future. Thanks a lot! Credits: commits added removed 12 1292 176 Konrad Malawski 7 1251 41 Hawstein 5 314 41 Patrik Nordwall 4 81 23 Endre Sándor Varga 4 758 35 gosubpl 3 97 10 Richard Imaoka 3 317 46 Patryk Jażdżewski (scalac) 3 603 78 Michal Sitko (scalac) 2 692 12 Felix Satyaputra 2 251 190 Kam Kasravi 2 101 17 Johan Andrén 2 121 115 Daniel Moran 2 312 6 Alexander Golubev 2 222 6 Piotr Krzemiński (scalac) 2 18 4 Martynas Mickevicius 1 22 1 kbrowder 1 15 2 netcomm 1 32 17 Chris Birchall 1 21 0 Jan Ypma 1 18 8 miaoqian 1 2 2 Arnout Engelen 1 32 27 monkey-mas 1 6 0 Christian Hoffmeister 1 63 0 Simão Martins 1 6 6 Nafer Sanabria 1 147 1 Krzysztof Wyczesany (scalac) 1 5 5 Stefano Bonetti 1 135 81 zhxiaog 1 42 0 Robert Budźko 1 47 18 Bernard Leach 1 23 8 poojadshende 1 2 1 Richard S. Imaoka 1 38 6 Ben Barnard 1 14 3 Tobias Pfeifer 1 334 12 Fabian Gutierrez 1 5 1 Kevin Deng 1 21 21 Andrea Peruffo 1 40 29 Michał Płachta 1 31 1 Denis Rosca Happy hakking! -- The Akka Team -- >>>>>>>>>> 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 akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
