The Play Team is pleased to announce the release of Play Framework 2.6.3. This is the latest stable release of Play. Getting Play To download Play, visit www.playframework.com/download. To upgrade an existing Play 2.6 project, edit your plugins.sbt file and set the sbt-plugin to 2.6.3. To update an older Play project, take a look at the Migration Guide. Changelog The 2.6.3 release contains the following fixes and improvements: Support running cache tasks in thread pool (Java documentation / Scala documentation)…

The Play team are proud to announce official support for socket.io. We have created a library called play-socket.io which provides a complete engine.io and socket.io implementation, tested against the socket.io reference implementation client (that is, the official JavaScript socket.io client), and including a number of useful features such as backpressure and cluster support that the JavaScript implementations do not have. Play has already proved itself to be apt at scaling to hundreds of thousands of connections per node, for example as demonstrated by LinkedIn,…

The Play team is proud to announce the release of Play 2.6.2. The most important fixes are related to some deadlocks in development mode: #7622: Deadlock issue - play 2.6.1 #7614: The action constructed from an ActionRefiner instance doesn't work in develop mode. Thanks to the community for the detailed reports and invaluable help. A complete list of changes and fixes can be seen here: https://github.com/playframework/playframework/milestone/58?closed=1 Again, special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:…

The Play team is proud to announce the release of Play 2.6.1. This is our first release after 2.6.0, and it should be backwards compatible. This release adds a number of bug fixes and improvements, including in our documentation. We really appreciate the feedback, bug reports and especially the contributions from the community. A complete list of changes can be seen here: https://github.com/playframework/playframework/milestone/57?closed=1 This release also updates play-json to version 2.6.2 (see changes), Twirl to version…

The Play team is proud to announce the release of Play 2.6.0. This release adds a number of new features and continues our efforts to make Play more modular, flexible, and secure. It also completes our removal of global state from the core of Play, making it easier to write self-contained Play applications. What's new? Some improvements in Play 2.6.0 include: Akka HTTP is now the default server backend. We still will support the Netty server backend but plan to implement most new features on Akka…