Congratulations all... you guys have put so much effort into Akka and its a really great framework; cant wait to see what is in store down the track!
Cheers, Tim On 5 Jan 2010, at 13:34, Jonas Bonér wrote: > Hi. > > I am proud to announce the release of Akka 0.6. It is a major release in many > ways. > Many people have made this happen. Especially the great team but also many of > the users on the mailing list. > Thank you all. > > Download Akka 0.6 here. > > The full release notes is available at here, but here is a summary of the > highlights. > • New STM impl with a declarative, a high-order fun and a monadic API > • New persistence module backends; Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB, works > with STM > • Much improved performance; Akka is now 2-3 times faster than Scala > Actors (both event and thread-based) in http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ > benchmark. > • Much improved memory footprint; an Actor consumes ~600 bytes, can now > create 6.5 million on 4 G RAM > • Much improved Remote Actors; reconnect, compression, implicit sender, > supervision across nodes etc. > • Comet bindings for Actors > • REST bindings for Actors > • Cluster Membership protocol; nodes find each other automatically, > simple API > • Security module; HTTP digest and Kerberos > • Many new Serializers; SBinary, JSON, Protobuf etc. > • AMQP integration > • Lift integration > • Spring integration (in progress) > • Guice integration > • Microkernel > New home at http://akkasource.org > New docs at http://doc.akkasource.org > New tutorial at http://jonasboner.com/2010/01/04/introducing-akka.html > > Feedback is most welcome. Join the mailing list and help us make it better. > > Thanks. > -- > Jonas Bonér > > twitter: @jboner > blog: http://jonasboner.com > work: http://scalablesolutions.se > code: http://github.com/jboner > code: http://akkasource.org > also: http://letitcrash.com > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
