Akka 2.5.7 released!

[Arnout Engelen]

Dear hakkers,

We are pleased to announce a new patch release of Akka 2.5. Some notable improvements and bug fixes in 2.5.7 are:

• Parallel serialization processing in Artery, see documentation of lanes
• Streams AsyncCallback can now be used safely as materialized value. Callback with invoke feedback was also added. #23078, #23111, thanks to @agolubev
• Simplified Streams throttle combinator, #23475, thanks to @agolubev
• Optimized Streams TCP writes, #23919
• Fixed memory leak when using Streams SharedKillSwitch, #23622 thanks to @lexn82
• Java 9 Automatic-Module-Name in manifests, #23931
• Hardening of Multi-DC Clustering
• API improvements of Akka Typed Persistence

A total of 98 issues were closed since 2.5.6. The complete list can be found on the 2.5.7 milestone on github.

Credits

For this release we had the help of 40 committers – thank you all very much!

commits  added  removed
     23   1812      204 Patrik Nordwall
     22   1184      537 Johan Andrén
     12    579      166 Christopher Batey
     11   1404     1313 Arnout Engelen
     11    307       52 Konrad `ktoso` Malawski
      9    428      479 Martynas Mickevičius
      5    489       16 Richard Imaoka
      4    586      193 Alexander Golubev
      2      5        4 Johannes Rudolph
      2      3        3 James Roper
      1    162       41 Unknown
      1    125       29 Renato Cavalcanti
      1    116       23 nachinius
      1     46        5 Aleksey Nikiforov
      1     30       17 sovaalexandr
      1     44        0 Daniel Schröter
      1     29       14 Sergiy Prydatchenko
      1     28       14 Victor Noël
      1     17        8 Kirill Yankov
      1     13        5 Mark James
      1     18        0 danischroeter
      1      7       10 Heiko Seeberger
      1      6        6 Niko Will
      1      5        5 David Leonhart
      1      4        4 golem131
      1      2        2 Troxid
      1      2        2 Nicolas Cailloux
      1      1        1 Seth Tisue
      1      1        1 Jimin Hsieh
      1      1        1 novacekm
      1      1        1 Ritesh Puj
      1      1        1 Oleg Skovpen
      1      1        1 WangYifu
      1      1        1 Ray Klass
      1      1        1 Zahari Dichev
      1      1        1 kenji yoshida
      1      1        1 Ikrom
      1      0        1 David Gómez G
      1      1        0 Christopher Hunt
      1      0        0 Daniel Mos

Happy hakking!

– The Akka Team