updated release notes for Akka.NET 1.0.7

[Aaronontheweb]

1.0.7 April 4 2016

Maintenance release for Akka.NET v1.0.6
The biggest changes in Akka.NET 1.0.7 have been made to Akka.Persistence, which is now designed to match the final stable release version in JVM Akka 2.4. Akka.Persistence is on-target to exit beta and become a fully mature module as of Akka.NET 1.5, due in May/June timeframe.

A quick note about 1.5 - JSON.NET will be replaced by Wire as the default serializer going forward, so if you want to be forward-compatible with 1.5 you will need to switch to using Wire today. Learn how to switch to using Wire as the default Akka.NET serializer.

If you install 1.0.7 you may see the following warning appear:

NewtonSoftJsonSerializer has been detected as a default serializer.
It will be obsoleted in Akka.NET starting from version 1.5 in the favor of Wire
for more info visit: http://getakka.net/docs/Serialization#how-to-setup-wire-as-default-serializer
If you want to suppress this message set HOCON {configPath} config flag to on.

This release also fixes some issues with the Cluster.Tools and Cluster.Sharding NuGet packages, which weren't versioned correctly in previous releases.

Fixes & Changes - Akka.NET Core

• Added missing FromConfig.Props(props) #1667
• Akka IO: ByteIterator and ByteStringbuilder bug fixes
• Hocon Tripple quoted text - Fixes #1687
• Downgrade System.Collections.Immutable to 1.1.36
• Unify immutable collections - Akka.NET core now depends on System.Collections.Immutable.
• #1694 Added safe check in InboxActor when receive timeout is already expired
• Bugfix: DeadLetter filter with Type parameter should call IsInstanceOfType with the correct argument
• Akka.IO bind failed must notify bindCommander of failure
• ReceiveActor: Replaced Receive(Func<T, Task> handler) by ReceiveAsync(...)
• External ActorSystem for Testkit event filters.
• Fixed the ScatterGatherFirstCompleted router logic
• Issue #1766 - Lazy evaluation of ChildrenContainer.Children and ChildrenContainer.Stats
• [Dispatch] Support for 'mailbox-requirement' and 'mailbox-type' in dispatcher config
• Fixed within timeout for routers in default configuration
• Default MailboxType optimization
• Warning about JSON.NET obsolete in v1.5
• Issue #1828 Implemented NobodySurrogate

Fixes & Changes - Akka.Remote, Akka.Cluster, Et al

• Add the default cluster singleton config as a top-level fallback.
• Change ShardState to a class
• Cluster.Sharding: Take snapshots when configured
• added remote metrics
• Added a new argument to the MultiNodeTestRunner to filter specs
• close #1758 made Akka.Cluster.Tools and Akka.Cluster.Sharding use correct assembly version info and nuget dependencies
• Akka.Remote EndpointWriter backoff bugfix
• Akka.Cluster.TestKit (internal use only)
• Cluster.Tools.Singleton: Member.UpNumber fix

Fixes & Changes - Akka.Persistence

• Made JournalEntry.Payload an object and AtLeastOnceDeliverySemantic public
• Akka.Persistence - update code base to akka JVM v2.4
• Ensure internal stash is unstashed on writes after recovery
• Wrap user stash to avoid confusion between PersistentActor.UnstashAll and PersistentActor.Stash.UnstashAll
• Fixes initialization of LocalSnapshotStore directory
• Fixed global ActorContext in SqlJournal

Commit Stats for v1.0.7

COMMITS	LOC+	LOC-	AUTHOR
12	1718	2213	Aaron Stannard
11	2187	2167	Silv3rcircl3
7	433	75	JeffCyr
6	2	1127	Danthar
6	10383	3054	Chris Constantin
3	510	25	maxim.salamatko
3	5	3	Christopher Martin
2	53	65	rogeralsing
2	50	1	mukulsinghsaini
2	2738	2035	Sean Gilliam
2	25	4	Bartosz Sypytkowski
2	2	2	utcnow
2	14	13	zbynek001
2	130	126	annymsMthd
1	58	0	Denis Kostikov
1	48	43	voltcode
1	213	66	Alex Koshelev
1	2	2	Tamas Vajk
1	2	2	Marc Piechura
1	2	1	Juergen Hoetzel
1	19	8	tstojecki
1	13	13	Willie Ferguson
1	1	1	ravengerUA