Ladies and gentlemen,

We are pleased to be able to announce the availability of Akka 2.0.2 which addresses several defects as well as adds even more documentation. 2.0.2 is also deprecating classes and methods that will be more obviously “internal API” for 2.1, as well as methods that have been superseded in 2.1.

##Summary of Changes

2.0.2 is the result of a collaboration of 4 contributors and weighs in at 114 files changed, 1554 insertions(+), 710 deletions(-).

##Tickets

• 1946 - Scheduler schedules with incorrect frequency
• 1990 - Add Java documentation for Microkernel
• 1992 - TypedActor: add concrete sample for remote lookup
• 2002 - NPE in Slf4jEventHandler
• 2004 - TypedActor.context not accessible within TypedActor.PostRestart.postRestart, etc.
• 2007 - DOC: add warning for synchronous nature of system.actorOf
• 2008 - fix performance of ByteString.+=
• 2020 - Add @throws clauses to Java API methods for Futures
• 2130 - Dining Hakkers on FSM error
• 2028 - ClassLoaderObjectInputStream doesn’t delegate properly
• 2034 - Avoid stall in NettyRemoteTransport during connect()
• 2038 - Improve error log in case of InstantiationException
• 1951 - sbt-plugin: add task for generating merged reference.conf
• 2040 - DOC: docs for multi-jvm test is wrong
• 2042 - Improve logging when exiting JVM due to fatal error
• 2043 - FSM: bug when rescheduling non-recurring timer
• 2044 - DOC: Create community project page for akka.io
• 2045 - Deprecate PromiseStream
• 2050 - Update zmq binding to 0.6
• 2067 - TestKit: make expectMsgType[] work with primitives
• 2125 - Logging: make event handler startup timeout configurable
• 2080 - DOC: write up a summary of differences between BalancingDispatcher and the Routers
• 2083 - DOC: document how to serialize ActorRefs outside of send()
• 2124 - Deprecations for 2.1
• 2039 - Deprecate durable mailbox
• 2131 - DOC: add warning about actor instance reuse to RST and ScalaDoc

Useful Links

• Akka Maven repository: https://repo.akka.io/releases
• Akka binary distribution: https://akka.io/downloads
• Akka 2.0.2 documentation: https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.5/
• Issue tracker: https://app.assembla.com/spaces/akka/
• Akka mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/akka-user

Akka is released under the Apache V2 license.

Happy Hakking!

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