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The Play Team is thrilled to announce the release of the Play 2.9.0 release candidate! 🎉 This release brings highly anticipated new features, including support for the latest Java LTS versions and Scala 3. It continues our commitment to making Play more modular, flexible, and secure. Play 2.9.0 represents a significant milestone as it's the first major release in almost four years and the first major release entirely driven by the community. Starting in late 2021, the project transitioned from Lightbend Inc. to a core team of dedicated individuals, as detailed in our sponsorship page. This release is the result of months of hard work from the Play core team and our fantastic community, with more than 600 pull requests merged from 112 contributors.

📗 What's New?

For a detailed overview of all the new features, please visit our release highlights page on the Play website.

🗒️ How Play Deals with Akka’s License Change

Play 2.9 will soon be followed by a Play 3.0 release. Please take a look here to learn more about our take on Akka and Pekko.

🗺️ How to start or migrate to Play 2.9

To get started with Play, follow the instructions on our Getting Started page. If you're migrating from an older version to Play 2.9, our migration guide will be a valuable resource. Please note that this release candidate is tagged as 2.9.0-RC2. Due to a bug in sbt 1.9.5, RC1 was published with known issues, and should be avoided. Instead, use:

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.play" % "sbt-plugin" % "2.9.0-RC2")

🏁 Expected Release Date for the Play 2.9.0 Final Release

UPDATE: Play 2.9 and Play 3.0 have been released meanwhile.

We've already had seven milestone releases of Play 2.9, with many users testing them, and some even running applications in production using the latest M7 milestone. Combined with rigorous testing, including the play-samples repository, we have confidence that things are stable. If no critical issues are reported by September 30th, we will promote this release candidate as the final Play 2.9.0 release 🤞.

Full Changelog

The following pull requests were merged for this release:

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For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.9.0 milestone.

❤️ Thanks to our premium sponsors!

If you find this OSS project useful for work, please consider asking your company to support it by becoming a sponsor.
You can also individually sponsor the project by becoming a backer.

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Finally, thanks to the community for their help with detailed bug reports, discussions about new features and pull request reviews. This project is only possible due to the help we had from amazing contributors.
Special thanks to all code contributors who helped with this particular release (they are listed below)!

Contributors

marcospereira, jrudolph, and 93 other contributors
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