spray 1.0-M8 / 1.1-M8 / 1.2-M8 released
Dear sprayers,
we – the spray team – are happy and proud to finally be able to announce the release of the much too long awaited M8 milestone of spray 1.0 / 1.1 / 1.2.
A lot has happened in and around the spray codebase since we released M7 in December, with the most notable change probably being the move onto the new Akka I/O layer that was jointly developed with the Akka team in the last months in order to provide an even better “Scala-all-the-way-through” actor-based I/O foundation, not just for HTTP. This new I/O layer will be officially released with Akka 2.2 (the first RC of which is already at this time), but for everyone who is not yet willing or able to upgrade from Akka 2.0 or 2.1 we provide a one-to-one backport of the new I/O abstraction with spray-io 1.0/1.1-M8.
But also on top of the raw I/O layer this milestone brings a lot of good stuff for your spray applications, for example:
- A completely new and even faster implementation of our spray-can HTTP parser. The work in this area was the basis for spray’s success in the latest round of the techempower benchmark, so upgrading to M8 should give your HTTP stack a nice performance boost.
- Fully rewritten HTTP Client APIs, which improve upon the experiences from earlier releases and give you the most powerful and flexible client-side HTTP abstractions available with spray to date.
- Much improved HTTP model in spray-http, with things like complete serializability, a very fast and fully RFC 3986-compliant URI parser as well as better and more efficient rendering abstractions.
The full list of changes, fixes and additions is too long for us to properly compile it, please check out the Changelog for more details.
Since this milestone is a triple release, here are the Scala and Akka versions that are targeted by the different artifacts (see also the Current Versions chapter):
| spray version | Scala version | Akka version |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0-M8.1 | Scala 2.9.x | Akka 2.0.x |
| 1.1-M8 | Scala 2.10.x | Akka 2.1.x |
| 1.2-M8 | Scala 2.10.x | Akka 2.2.x |
The development statistics for 1.1-M8 (since 1.1-M7):
- 334 commits
- 1.081 files changed
- 21.628 insertions
- 15.363 deletions
- 18 committers
As the name implies this release is still only a milestone until the 1.0/1.1/1.2 finals, but it will be the last one. In the coming weeks we a planning on burning through the open tickets and provide you with the first release candidate as soon as we can.
Until then we are, as always, very much looking forward to your feedback!
Happy spraying!
Update 2013-06-11
We discovered a regression in spray-routing 1.0-M8 causing an NPE on first access. This has been fixed with the superseding release of 1.0-M8.1.