Akka 2.6.0-M3 released

Dear hakkers,

The third development milestone for Akka 2.6 is out.

It would be excellent if you can try the milestones out and give us feedback. Akka 2.6 is binary backwards compatible with 2.5 with the ordinary exceptions listed in the documentation. Some configuration changes may be needed, please read the migration guide as a first step.

Some notable changes in 2.6.0-M3:

  • More work on the Jackson serializer, including support for Scala 2.13 #27019
  • Scheduler fixed delay rate vs fixed delay. See the migration documentation for more details. #26910
  • Aeron UDP upgraded to Aeron 1.19.1 #27043
  • Netty and Aeron now optional dependencies for remoting #25169
  • Remove too verbose logging from Timers #26932

A total of 42 issues were closed since 2.6.0-M2. The complete list can be found on the 2.6.0-M3 milestone on github.

Credits

For this release we had the help of 15 committers – thank you all very much!

commits added removed

25 940 2331 Christopher Batey
21 4321 1768 Patrik Nordwall
4 107 122 Johan Andrén
4 84 29 Arnout Engelen
2 108 21 Helena Edelson
2 38 37 Enno
1 84 15 虎鸣
1 1 2 Charies Gavin
1 2 1 Nicolas Vollmar
1 1 1 Renato Cavalcanti
1 1 1 Alex Afanasev
1 1 1 Bartosz Firyn
1 1 1 Eric Loots
1 1 1 Corey Auger
1 1 0 Johannes Rudolph

Thanks to Lightbend for their continued sponsorship of the Akka core team’s efforts. Lightbend offers commercial support for Akka.

Happy hakking!

– The Akka Team