The Play Team is proud to announce the release of Play 2.7.0. This release adds many new features and continues our efforts to make Play more modular, flexible, and secure. Play 2.7.0 is the result of more than 1 year of relentless work from our fantastic community comprehending more than 720 changes made from almost 150 contributors. What's new? The highlights in Play 2.7.0 include: gRPC support gRPC is a transport mechanism for request/response and (non-persistent) streaming use cases. It is a schema-first…

The Play team is proud to announce a new, hopefully, the last, release candidate for Play 2.7.0. With this release candidate, we are fixing some issues found in RC8 and thus approaching an upcoming GA release. We are also moving closer to the idea of freezing the APIs. As with the previous RC, the primary goal is to get feedback, so please let us know if something isn't working or you see something that should be improved. If you are the author of a Play module, we would…

The Play Team is pleased to announce the release of Play Framework 2.6.21. This is the latest stable release of Play. What is Play Framework? Play is a high-productivity Java and Scala web application framework that integrates the components and APIs you need for modern web application development. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture and features predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications thanks to its reactive model, based on Akka Streams. Getting Play To start a new project, visit https:…

Wait, Release Candidate 8? Yes, Release Candidate 8. We had problems while publishing the artifacts (due to timeouts on the publishing service) and because of that, we had to restart the process multiple times, incrementing the RC version number. In the end, the problem persisted until we were able to do a successful release. To better address this situation, there are two improvements in progress: we will not promote artifacts automatically for now and a small change to avoid publishing internal artifacts. Let's go to the important stuff then. The…

Hi all, The Play team is proud to announce the first release candidate for Play 2.7.0 (due to a bug during the release process we had to skip RC1 and RC2, so RC3 is effectively the first RC). We expect this to be considerably more stable than the milestone releases, not only in terms of functionality but we are also moving closer to the idea of freezing the APIs. As with milestones, the primary goal is to get feedback, so please let us know if something isn't working…