ANNOUNCE: Akka 2.0.4

[Roland Kuhn]

Dear hAkkers,

We—the Akka committers—are pleased to be able to announce the availability of Akka 2.0.4.

This version contains a number of small bug fixes, for the full list of tickets closed see below, the most notable ones are

 – fix a divide-by-zero bug in routers

 – fix a wrap-around bug in HashedWheelTimer which would expire timeouts early

 – stop using Unsafe.throwException to allow running on Android

 – configurable worker pool size in remoting to allow running with fewer threads

Summary of Changes

2.0.4 is the result of a collaboration of 5 contributors and weighs in at 66 files changed, 339 insertions, 118 deletions. Please refer to the full git log at the end for the gory details.

Tickets closed:

2447 – Backport fix for Router ArithmeticException: / by zero

2448 – Upgrade Netty from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4

2476 – 2.0.3 docs has broken links to typesafe.com

2532 – TypedActor busted after restart

2570 – Backport fix for wrong logic in Switch.whileOff to 2.0.4

2592 – DOC: 2.0.3 doc errata

2628 – java hellokernel sample: reflection error

2686 – AskTimeoutException using Patterns.ask(pingActorRef, message, Timeout.longToTimeout(Long.MAX_VALUE));

2691 – Backport Netty worker pool size

2706 – Stop using Unsafe.throwException since it doesn't exist on Android

Akka is released under the Apache V2 license.

Website:

http://akka.io

Maven repository:

http://repo.akka.io/releases

Binary distribution:

http://download.akka.io/downloads/akka-2.0.4.tgz

http://download.akka.io/downloads/akka-2.0.4.zip

Documentation:

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.4/

http://doc.akka.io/api/akka/2.0.4/

Issue tracker:

http://www.assembla.com/spaces/akka/

Mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user

Git Shortlog

Björn Antonsson (2):

      Allow configuration of the number of threads created by Netty. #2691

      Change Netty configuration to better mimic Netty defaults. #2691

Björn Harrtell (1):

      Upgrade Netty from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4

Patrik Nordwall (5):

      Avoid ArithmeticException: / by zero in routers, see #2443

      Rename local val _routee, see #2442

      Avoid / by zero in SmallestMailboxRouter also, see #2442

      Correct logic in Switch.whileOff, see #2569

      Add test for Switch, see #2569

Roland (8):

      change version to 2.0.4-SNAPSHOT

      adapt release script to new repo.akka.io login

      make HashedWheelTimer tolerate wrap-arounds, see #2686

      adapt release script to new repo.akka.io login

      add comment explaining HWT test

      fix smartypants disabling python code

      fix various small things in the docs, see #2592

      Update version for release 2.0.4

Viktor Klang (7):

      Removing reference to Future.onTimeout

      #2476 - Fixing broken links to typesafe.com

      #2432 - turning off smarty pants so that our quotes don't get mangled in code samples.

      Fixing #2532

      Adding OSS Sonatype releases to the list of repos for 2.0

      #2628 - make HelloActor and WorldActor public static classes

      #2706 - Switching to a type system subversion instead of Unsafe.throwException.

Happy hAkking!

The Akka Committers through,

Roland Kuhn
Typesafe – The software stack for applications that scale.
twitter: @rolandkuhn

[Ngoc Dao]

Thanks.

But FYI, Netty 3.5.4 is quite old, months ago. 3.5.10 has been
released:
https://netty.io/Blog/Netty+3510Final+-+Get+it+while+it+is+hot

[√iktor Ҡlang]

Thanks, but opening a ticket would have been more appropriate.
There is no 2.0.5 planned so please open it against Coltrane.

Cheers,
V

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[Ngoc Dao]

Done:
https://www.assembla.com/spaces/akka/tickets/2715-use-the-latest-stable-version-of-netty

[√iktor Ҡlang]

Thanks!

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Ngoc Dao <ngocda...@gmail.com> wrote:

Done:
https://www.assembla.com/spaces/akka/tickets/2715-use-the-latest-stable-version-of-netty

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[Björn Antonsson]

Thanks for reporting this. Will fix it as soon as I get to a computer.

B/

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On Sunday, 18 November 2012 at 13:56, Andy Polack wrote:

FYI - The download link to the typesafe site still points to 2.0.3

Thanks for all of the amazing work you guys do - I love Akka!