Stormpot 2.4

[Chris Vest]

Hi,

Stormpot 2.4 has been released to Maven Central. Release notes are here:

https://medium.com/@chrisvest/released-stormpot-2-4-eeab4aec86d0

The news in this release is that the peak performance of BlazePool has improved even more, and I have measured it doing over 2 billion claim+release cycles per second (with 44 worker threads).

It is now also possible to explicitly expire claimed objects using the `expire` method on Slots. And a new CompoundExpiration has been contributed by Guillaume Lederrey. He also improved the generic type signatures of the existing Expiration implementations. Thanks!

This is the last release that will support Java 6.

The next release will be Stormpot 3.0, and it will require Java 8.

Cheers,

Chris