Akka gRPC 0.8.0 released

Dear hakkers,

We’re happy to announce version 0.8.0 of Akka gRPC!
gRPC is a transport mechanism for request/response and
(non-persistent) streaming use cases. See
Why gRPC? for more
information about when to use gRPC as your transport.
This release introduces a number of exciting new features, as well as moving
us closer towards 1.0.0 which we expect to release in a number of weeks.

Major improvements include:

For an overview of all changes see the release overview.

Credits

This release includes commits from 9 committers – thank you all very much!

commits  added  removed
     44   3136      984 Arnout Engelen
      1   1180      353 Tim Whittington
      1    842      214 David Montgomery
      1     53       43 tayvs
      8    156       45 Enno
      2     16        8 Renato Cavalcanti
      2      3       10 Ignasi Marimon-Clos
      1     13        5 lukasito
      1      2        0 Parth

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– The Akka Team