0. Release Notes (2.0.x)

2.0.0-M2

This is a milestone release and is aimed at testing this new major version by early adopters. This is experimental. This release should not be used in production.

Main changes

• Pekko 2.0.0-M4 is the new minimum Pekko version
• Some deprecated code has been removed
• HTTP/2 enabled by default
• Add server-side WebSocket compression (PR1114)
• Add max-connection-age setting for HTTP/2 server connections (PR1316)
• Add client-side max connection age for HTTP/2 (PR1320)

2.0.0-M1

This is a milestone release and is aimed at testing this new major version by early adopters. This is experimental. This release should not be used in production.

Main changes

• Pekko 2.0.0-M1 is the new minimum Pekko version
• Java 17 is the new minimum JRE version
• Scala 2.12 support dropped
• A lot of deprecated code has been removed
• A lot of util classes for Scala version compatibility have been removed
• Dependency versions have been updated
• Jackson3 is supported in a new pekko-http-jackson3 lib
• Changed Java DSL methods that return Scala Durations to return Java Durations (PR788)