Five weeks after the release of the very well received version 2.0, we have accumulated enough small fixes and enhancements to warrant a binary compatible bugfix release.
We would like to thank our great community for not only reporting, but also helping in fixing the issues which turned up: starting from very precise diagnostic information, over fixing errors in the documentation to submitting complete pull requests for performance enhancement. Special thanks go to Jean-François Im , Mathias Doenitz and Vibul Imtarnasan !
The issues fixed are:
- improved Java API for accessing singletons like akka.routing.CurrentRoutees and friends (also our beloved PoisonPill)
- reject invalid ActorSystem names which lead to problems when going remote (essentially must be valid hostname components now)
- fixed a live-lock in ForkJoinPool which could occur under rare circumstances with parallelism levels 2 or 4
- reduced overhead of ask() : less memory footprint and lazy registration
Useful Links
- Akka Maven repository: https://repo.akka.io/releases
- Akka binary distribution: https://akka.io/downloads
- Akka 2.0.1 documentation: https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.5/
- Issue tracker: https://app.assembla.com/spaces/akka/
Akka is released under the Apache V2 license.
Happy Hakking!