Dear Hakkers.

We are proud to announce Akka 1.1 <http://akka.io/downloads/>.

*What is Akka?*

Akka is the platform for the next generation event-driven, scalable and
fault-tolerant architectures on the JVM.

Akka implements a unique hybrid of:

   - Actors, which gives you:
      - Simple and high-level abstractions for concurrency and parallelism.
      - Asynchronous, non-blocking and highly performant event-driven
      programming model.
      - Very lightweight event-driven threads (create ~13 million actors on
      8 G RAM).
   - High-availability through supervisor hierarchies with let-it-crash
   semantics. Excellent for writing highly fault-tolerant systems that never
   stop, systems that self-heal.
   - Software Transactional Memory (STM). (Distributed transactions coming
   soon).
   - Transactors: combine actors and STM into transactional actors. Allows
   you to compose atomic message flows with automatic retry and rollback.
   - Remote actors: highly performant distributed actors with remote
   supervision and error management.
   - Agents & Dataflow Concurrency
   - Java and Scala API.

*What’s new in 1.1?*

Here is a list of the most major new features since 1.0.

   - Moved all documentation to reStructuredText, much more slick and
   intuitive
   - Updated to Scala 2.9.0
   - akka-actor now has 0 external dependencies
   - Much fewer dependencies in total for the akka modules
   - Dataflow API for Futures using delimited continuations so you can write
   seemingly blocking code that will not block runtime
   - Futures are now fully Monadic which means that they are ready for
   for-comprehension goodness
   - Futures now have lots of non-blocking methods allowing composition of
   Futures without blocking
   - Futures can now be executed natively on all the Dispatchers
   - Lot's of fixes have gone into akka-remote including tuning and
   hardening
   - Priority actor mailboxes
   - Generic EventHandler for Akka internal and user
   code asynchronous events with pluggable listeners, SLF4J listener available
   - TestKit module for testing actor-based applications
   - Improved Java API
   - Lot's of performance enhancements and bug fixes

Read the full release
notes<http://akka.io/docs/akka/1.1/project/release-notes.html>
.

Read the migration
guide<http://akka.io/docs/akka/1.1/project/migration-guides.html#migration>
.

Read the new getting started
guide<http://akka.io/docs/akka/1.1/intro/getting-started.html>

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*

Read the new akka documentation <http://akka.io/docs/akka/1.1/index.html>.

Read the new akka modules documentation<http://akka.io/docs/akka-modules/1.1/>
.
**Where can I get it? *

Download Akka & Akka Modules: http://akka.io/downloads/

Check out the source: https://github.com/jboner/akka/tree/v1.1

https://github.com/jboner/akka-modules/tree/v1.1

*Typesafe Stack*

*Akka 1.1 is also available in a simple, pre-integrated stack with Scala
2.9.0.final from Typesafe at: http://typesafe.com/stack. Typesafe also
provides training, support for, and commercial products on top of, Akka and
Scala. *

*Where is Akka used? *

Akka is deployed in production at numerous companies in many different
areas:

   - Finance/Banking
   - Betting/Gaming
   - Telecom
   - Simulation
   - Television/Media
   - eCommerce
   - Social Media sites

Common theme across all these industries are systems that are highly
transactional, needs high throughput, low latency and carrier-grade
availability (5 nines or more).

*What is Akka used for?*

   - Transaction Processing Systems
   - Reliable Services Systems
   - Enterprise Integration Platform
   - EDA - CQRS, Event Sourcing
   - Complex Event Stream Processing
   - Simulation
   - Grid Computing
   - Analysis of large datasets
   - Batch Processing

Enjoy.

- Akka Team