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)
• Add new fromRouterWithComponents method for creating a server (Documentation)
• Fix GzipFilter for HTTP/1.0
• Fix sessions with LegacyCookiesModule
• Fix 'nul' PID file issue on Windows
• Fix resource leak with temporary files
• Fix empty body issue when using RoutingDsl
• Fixed missing JPA config issue
• Fix race when creating temporaries directories
• Reduce logging for temporary files
• Reduce error logging for buggy browser cookies
• Improve CSRF logging
• Many documentation improvements
• Update to play-json 2.6.3:
  • Reduce logging when compiling macros
• Update to play-ws 1.0.4:
  • Fix a JDK9 packaging bug
  • Fix missing GData dependency
  • Fix Java API's getBodyAsSource
• Update to Twirl 1.3.4:
  • Make Scala.js dependency optional
• Update Akka to 2.5.4:
  • See Akka release notes

Credits

Thanks to the community for the detailed reports and invaluable help.

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release: Adam Lane, Adam Williams, Dominik Dorn, Greg Methvin, Grigoriy Alexeev, James Roper, Jason Zaugg, Johannes Stickel, JunpeiAnzai, jxtps, Marcos Pereira, Matthias Kurz, mufeng, Naoki Takezoe, Rich Dougherty, Thiago Arrais, Ty Kowalewski, Will Sargent.