Play 2.8.18

[mkurz]

The Play Team is happy to announce the release of Play 2.8.18.

📗 What is new?

This release includes a fix for #10590 to avoid StackOverflowErrors when sending multipart/form-data requests with many fields as payload. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• [2.8.x] Upgrade Akka, Netty, Spring, Joda-Time #11491 [2.8.x] Upgrade Akka, Netty, Spring, Joda-Time by @mkurz
• To refactor BodyPartParser of Multipart in order to avoid StackOverflowError easily #11360 To refactor BodyPartParser of Multipart in order to avoid StackOverflowError easily by @yousuketto
• [2.8.x] Update MIME types (backport #11406) by @PromanSEW #11465 [2.8.x] Update MIME types (backport Update MIME types #11406) by @PromanSEW
• [2.8.x] Upgrade netty-reactive-streams #11464 [2.8.x] Upgrade netty-reactive-streams by @mkurz
• [2.8.x] Latest scala sbt versions #11459 [2.8.x] Latest scala sbt versions by @mkurz

For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.8.18 milestone.

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🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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Special thanks to all code contributors who helped with this particular release (they are listed below)!

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This discussion was created from the release Play 2.8.18.

[atilparikh]

Thanks @mkurz and team for maintaining play. Kudos.

In this release, I found that server is crashed due to heap memory stuff, once I back to 2.8.17 everything solved; but back to 2.8.18 and heap memory issues arises. Kindly look into this before releasing new one.

Thanks.

[mkurz]

Can you please open a new issue with more details how we can reproduce the problem? Thanks!

[atilparikh]

Thanks @mkurz for quick response, as suggested #11526 created.

[mkurz]

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