Dear hAkkers,

We—the Akka committers—are pleased to be able to announce the availability of Akka 2.0.4. This version contains a number of small bug fixes, for the full list of tickets closed see below, the most notable ones are

• fix a divide-by-zero bug in routers
• fix a wrap-around bug in HashedWheelTimer which would expire timeouts early
• stop using Unsafe.throwException to allow running on Android
• configurable worker pool size in remoting to allow running with fewer threads

2.0.4 is the result of a collaboration of 5 contributors and weighs in at 66 files changed, 339 insertions, 118 deletions.

##Tickets closed

• 2447 – Backport fix for Router ArithmeticException: / by zero
• 2448 – Upgrade Netty from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4
• 2476 – 2.0.3 docs has broken links to typesafe.com
• 2532 – TypedActor busted after restart
• 2570 – Backport fix for wrong logic in Switch.whileOff to 2.0.4
• 2592 – DOC: 2.0.3 doc errata
• 2628 – java hellokernel sample: reflection error
• 2686 – AskTimeoutException using Patterns.ask(pingActorRef, message, Timeout.longToTimeout(Long.MAX_VALUE));
• 2691 – Backport Netty worker pool size
• 2706 – Stop using Unsafe.throwException since it does not exist on Android

Useful Links

• Akka Maven repository: https://repo.akka.io/releases
• Akka binary distribution: https://akka.io/downloads
• Akka 2.0.4 documentation: https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.5/
• Akka 2.0.4 API docs: https://doc.akka.io/api/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!

Roland