0. Release Notes (2.0.x)

2.0.0-M1

This is 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)