Akka 2.5.8 released!

[Johan Andrén]

Dear hakkers,

We are pleased to announce a new patch release of Akka 2.5. Some notable improvements and bug fixes in 2.5.8 are:

• Memory leak fix and performance improvements for asynchronous callbacks with feedback. #24046 and #24109
• Fix for Timer usage in PersistentActors #24076
• A new Scala Sink for collecting arbitrary immutable collections #23917 thanks to @nachinius
• Fix for dispatcher (and other) attributes on graphs created with fromGraph #22911

A total of 38 issues were closed since 2.5.7. The complete list can be found on the 2.5.8milestone on github. Credits For this release we had the help of 23 committers – thank you all very much!

commits  added  removed
     11   1278      498 Johan Andrén
      9    683       94 Patrik Nordwall
      5     23       11 Arnout Engelen
      4     59       36 Konrad `ktoso` Malawski
      3    186       97 nachinius
      3    116      149 Johannes Rudolph
      3     38       42 Christopher Batey
      2    344       43 Richard Imaoka
      2     43       30 gosubpl
      2      7        2 Martynas Mickevičius
      1     51       51 Jonas Lantto
      1     65        4 ortigali
      1     32       32 Evgeny Veretennikov
      1     59        0 Heiko Seeberger
      1     35        2 mattsu
      1     26        3 Elijah Rippeth
      1     10       10 Philippus Baalman
      1     10       10 Lutz Huehnken
      1      7        7 Pavel Boldyrev
      1      3        6 Björn Antonsson
      1      2        2 Ivan Yurchenko
      1      1        1 Maciej Kaszubowski
      1      1        1 Oleg Skovpen

Happy hakking!

– The Akka Team