Today we shipped Akka.NET v1.0.2, a maintenance release that fixed a number of bugs as well as introduced some exciting new features.

Major Akka.Cluster Stability Upgrades

Akka.Cluster is still in beta at the moment, but we’re on target for a full Akka.Cluster release in Akka.NET v1.1.

In this release we had some new contributors emerge from the ranks of Akka.NET’s production users to deliver some major stability upgrades to Akka.Cluster. We fixed critical issues in the following areas:

• Leader election algorithm;
• Clustered group routers;
• Akka.Remote and Akka.Cluster dispatchers now run on their own dedicated thread pools; and
• Akka.NET scheduler now runs on its own dedicated thread by default.

These changes resulted in massive improvements in cluster stability and reliability for these customers, and has helped put us on track towards our goal of a stable Akka.Cluster release in the near future.

New Akka.Persistence Plugins

If you’re interested in Akka.Persistence, things just became a lot more interesting! In the previous Akka.NET release (v1.0.1) we shipped Akka.Persistence.SQLServer (docs) (NuGet.)

In Akka.NET v1.0.2 we’ve added two new backing stores for Akka.Persistence:

• Akka.Persistence.PostgreSQL (docs) (NuGet)
• Akka.Persistence.Cassandra (docs) (NuGet)

Akka.Persistence is still in beta, but it’s one of the most exciting libraries in Akka.NET due to its ability to add guaranteed delivery and event sourcing to actors with high consistency requirements.

Other New Features

In addition to the above changes, we’ve also added the following additional packages to Akka.NET:

Akka.DI.StructureMap Akka.NET’s dependency injection system now supports StructureMap! You can install Akka.DI.StructureMap via the NuGet commandline:

PM> Install-Package Akka.DI.StructureMap

Akka.TestKit.XUnit2 Akka.NET now has support for XUnit 2.0! You can install Akka.TestKit.XUnit2 via the NuGet commandline:

PM> Install-Package Akka.TestKit.XUnit2

Read the Full Release Notes

You can read the full release notes for Akka.NET v1.0.2 here!

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