The Play Team is happy to announce the release of Play 3.0.8! 🥳

📗 About this Release

This release fixes several bugs and a CVE, improves Scala 3 support, and - as always - updates dependencies. We strongly recommend upgrading at your earliest convenience.

If you're considering upgrading to Play 3.0, please check the Play 3.0 release announcement for highlights and further details on how to migrate. Many projects have already smoothly upgraded to Play 3.0.

sbt 1.9.0 or newer is now required

Because of recent changes in how artifacts are published to Maven Central, older sbt versions can no longer retrieve Play's sbt plugins published starting July 1, 2025. If you're still using an older sbt release, you'll need to upgrade to sbt 1.9.0 or newer to continue fetching Play artifacts from Maven Central. Play 3.0.8 and newer will not work with earlier sbt versions. To be fair, when releasing Play 3.0, we already announced 1.9.0 as the minimum required sbt version, even though older versions may still have worked until now.

Scala 3 improvements

• Twirl now supports using in it's templates, so you can define template parameters like:

  @(x: Int)(using y: Int)

  Thanks to @ajafri2001 for implementing this improvement 🙌:
  playframework/twirl#933 Prepend "using" at the callsite when definition site has implicit parameter

• When using Play JSON, the JSON field ordering is now correctly preserved when compiling with Scala 3 - implemented by @xuwei-k:
  playframework/play-json#1177 fix field ordering Scala 3 writes macro

Noteworthy Pull Requests

• #13297 [3.0.x] Upgrade commons-beanutils to fix CVE-2025-48734 by @mkurz
• #13328 [3.0.x] Fix iterator for Cookies created via play.api.test.Helpers.cookies (backport #13317) by @murosan
• #13282 [3.0.x] Fix ClassCastException when using @With Java annotation by @mkurz

Full Changelog

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #13355 [3.0.x] sbt 1.11.2 everywhere by @mkurz
• #13322 [3.0.x] sbt-ci-release 1.11.1 (was 1.9.3) by @scala-steward
• #13325 [3.0.x] sbt, sbt-dependency-tree, ... 1.11.2 (was 1.10.11) by @scala-steward
• #13353 [3.0.x] Upgrade play-json by @mkurz
• #13349 [3.0.x] Upgrade twirl by @mkurz
• #13343 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.19.Final (was 6.6.18.Final) by @mkurz
• #13345 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13346 [3.0.x] Fix groupid in scala steward conf by @mkurz
• #13329 [3.0.x] Pin caffeine by @mkurz
• #13328 [3.0.x] Fix iterator for Cookies created via play.api.test.Helpers.cookies (backport #13317) by @murosan
• #13326 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13323 [3.0.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.122.Final (was 4.1.121.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13324 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.18.Final (was 6.6.15.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13312 [3.0.x] Pin Hibernate ORM to 6.x by @mkurz
• #13297 [3.0.x] Upgrade commons-beanutils to fix CVE-2025-48734 by @mkurz
• #13292 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13290 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.15.Final (was 6.6.13.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13289 [3.0.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.121.Final (was 4.1.119.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13282 [3.0.x] Fix ClassCastException when using @With Java annotation by @mkurz
• #13278 [3.0.x] docs: add note about known bug with logger configuration (backport #13275) by @gaeljw
• #13251 [3.0.x] sbt-java-formatter 0.10.0 (was 0.8.0) by @scala-steward
• #13252 [3.0.x] commons-io 2.19.0 (was 2.18.0) by @scala-steward
• #13253 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.13.Final (was 6.6.11.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13254 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13249 [3.0.x] Use ubuntu-24.04 GHA runner image (backport #13107) by @mkurz
• #13242 [3.0.x] Pin Netty to 4.1.x (backport #13241) by @mkurz
• #13216 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13215 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.11.Final (was 6.6.10.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13205 [3.0.x] Fix Heroku deprecated toolbelt URL on ProductionHeroku.md by @bidego

For more details see the full list of changes and the 3.0.8 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)!

The Play Team is happy to announce the release of Play 2.9.8! 🥳

📗 About this Release

This release fixes several bugs and a CVE, improves Scala 3 support, and - as always - updates dependencies. We strongly recommend upgrading at your earliest convenience.

If you're considering upgrading to Play 2.9, please check the Play 2.9 release announcement for highlights and further details on how to migrate. Many projects have already smoothly upgraded to Play 2.9.

sbt 1.9.0 or newer is now required

Because of recent changes in how artifacts are published to Maven Central, older sbt versions can no longer retrieve Play's sbt plugins published starting July 1, 2025. If you're still using an older sbt release, you'll need to upgrade to sbt 1.9.0 or newer to continue fetching Play artifacts from Maven Central. Play 2.9.8 and newer will not work with earlier sbt versions. To be fair, when releasing Play 2.9, we already announced 1.9.0 as the minimum required sbt version, even though older versions may still have worked until now.

Scala 3 improvements

• Twirl now supports using in it's templates, so you can define template parameters like:

  @(x: Int)(using y: Int)

  Thanks to @ajafri2001 for implementing this improvement 🙌:
  playframework/twirl#933 Prepend "using" at the callsite when definition site has implicit parameter

• When using Play JSON, the JSON field ordering is now correctly preserved when compiling with Scala 3 - implemented by @xuwei-k:
  playframework/play-json#1177 fix field ordering Scala 3 writes macro

Noteworthy Pull Requests

• #13299 [2.9.x] Upgrade commons-beanutils to fix CVE-2025-48734 (backport #13297) by @mkurz
• #13327 [2.9.x] Fix iterator for Cookies created via play.api.test.Helpers.cookies (backport #13317) by @murosan
• #13284 [2.9.x] Fix ClassCastException when using @With Java annotation (backport #13282) by @mkurz

Full Changelog

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #13356 [2.9.x] sbt 1.11.2 everywhere by @mkurz
• #13306 [2.9.x] sbt-ci-release 1.11.1 (was 1.9.3) by @scala-steward
• #13309 [2.9.x] sbt, sbt-dependency-tree, ... 1.11.2 (was 1.10.11) by @scala-steward
• #13352 [2.9.x] Upgrade play-json by @mkurz
• #13350 [2.9.x] Twirl upgrade by @mkurz
• #13338 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.19.Final (was 6.6.18.Final) by @mkurz
• #13340 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13347 [2.9.x] Fix groupid in scala steward conf (backport #13346) by @mkurz
• #13332 [2.9.x] sbt-java-formatter 0.10.0 (was 0.8.0) (backport #13251) by @scala-steward
• #13331 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.18.Final (was 6.6.15.Final) (backport #13324) by @scala-steward
• #13330 [2.9.x] Pin caffeine (backport #13329) by @mkurz
• #13327 [2.9.x] Fix iterator for Cookies created via play.api.test.Helpers.cookies (backport #13317) by @murosan
• #13313 [2.9.x] Pin Hibernate ORM to 6.x (backport #13312) by @mkurz
• #13310 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13308 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.17.Final (was 6.6.13.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13307 [2.9.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.122.Final (was 4.1.121.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13299 [2.9.x] Upgrade commons-beanutils to fix CVE-2025-48734 (backport #13297) by @mkurz
• #13284 [2.9.x] Fix ClassCastException when using @With Java annotation (backport #13282) by @mkurz
• #13277 [2.9.x] docs: add note about known bug with logger configuration (backport #13275) by @gaeljw
• #13267 [2.9.x] commons-io 2.19.0 (was 2.18.0) by @scala-steward
• #13270 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13268 [2.9.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.121.Final (was 4.1.119.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13248 [2.9.x] Use ubuntu-24.04 GHA runner image (backport #13107) by @mkurz
• #13241 [2.9.x] Pin Netty to 4.1.x by @mkurz
• #13237 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13236 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.13.Final (was 6.6.10.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13207 [2.9.x] Fix Heroku deprecated toolbelt URL on ProductionHeroku.md (backport #13205) by @bidego

For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.9.8 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)!

The Play Team is happy to announce the release of Play 3.0.7.

📗 About this Release

This patch release primarily upgrades dependencies, fixes minor bugs, and improves compatibility with Scala 3. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

If you're considering upgrading to Play 3.0, please check the Play 3.0 release announcement for highlights and further details on how to migrate. Many projects have already smoothly upgraded to Play 3.0.

Noteworthy Pull Request

• #13115 [3.0.x] Avoid error at shutdown if tmpdir is not writeable but was not used in the first place (backport #13039) by @gaeljw
• #13112 [3.0.x] Module: Accept constructor with (com.typesafe.config.Config) (backport #13044) by @tsawada
• #13005 [3.0.x] Change access modifier to package private for RoutingDsl.{Route,RouteParam} (backport #13003) by @WojciechMazur

Full Changelog

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #13189 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13188 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.10.Final (was 6.6.9.Final) by @mkurz
• #13172 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13171 [3.0.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.119.Final (was 4.1.118.Final) by @mkurz
• #13166 [3.0.x] Avoid outdated commons-io in htmlunit and fluentlenium (backport #13164) by @mkurz
• #13156 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.9.Final (was 6.6.8.Final) by @mkurz
• #13158 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13157 [3.0.x] scalafmt-core 3.9.1 (was 3.8.6) by @mkurz
• #13147 [3.0.x] Explicitly submit the root project's dependency (backport #13145) by @mkurz
• #13143 [3.0.x] Scala 3.3.5 in docs (backport #13141) by @mkurz
• #13135 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.8.Final (was 6.6.5.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13134 [3.0.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.118.Final (was 4.1.117.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13136 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13130 [3.0.x] Documentation update: Add VSCode and url fixes to IDE page (backport #13014) by @TimothyFothergill
• #13126 [3.0.x] Eager bindings docs clarification (backport #12896) by @RommelTJ
• #13128 [3.0.x] Documentation Update: Asset timestamp handling with sbt (backport #12895) by @RommelTJ
• #13124 [3.0.x] Updates Custom Field Constructor Documentation (backport #12892) by @RommelTJ
• #13121 [3.0.x] Update link on how to fix slow localhost resolution (backport #13120) by @mkurz
• #13115 [3.0.x] Avoid error at shutdown if tmpdir is not writeable but was not used in the first place (backport #13039) by @gaeljw
• #13113 [3.0.x] Add example and fix doc for asynchronous accepting WebSocket (backport #13035) by @ihostage
• #13112 [3.0.x] Module: Accept constructor with (com.typesafe.config.Config) (backport #13044) by @tsawada
• #13086 [3.0.x] Fix apiMappings (backport #13085) by @mkurz
• #13078 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.5.Final (was 6.6.4.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13076 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13073 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13068 [3.0.x] Prepare scalafmt upgrade (backport #13066) by @mkurz
• #13064 [3.0.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.117.Final (was 4.1.116.Final) by @mkurz
• #13063 [3.0.x] sbt-native-packager 1.11.0 (was 1.10.4) by @mkurz
• #13065 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13048 [3.0.x] Scala 2.13.16 (backport #13047) by @mkurz
• #13033 [3.0.x] Fix Dependency Graph action (backport #13032) by @ihostage
• #13027 [3.0.x] Fix Microbenchmark tests to make it work with upcoming Scala releases (backport #13025) by @mkurz
• #13018 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13016 [3.0.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.116.Final (was 4.1.115.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13017 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.4.Final (was 6.6.3.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13005 [3.0.x] Change access modifier to package private for RoutingDsl.{Route,RouteParam} (backport #13003) by @WojciechMazur
• #13000 [3.0.x] sbt 1.10.6 (backport #12998) by @mkurz

For more details see the full list of changes and the 3.0.7 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)!

The Play Team is happy to announce the release of Play 2.9.7.

📗 About this Release

This patch release primarily upgrades dependencies, fixes minor bugs, and improves compatibility with Scala 3. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

If you're considering upgrading to Play 2.9, please check the Play 2.9 release announcement for highlights and further details on how to migrate. Many projects have already smoothly upgraded to Play 2.9.

Noteworthy Pull Request

• #13116 [2.9.x] Avoid error at shutdown if tmpdir is not writeable but was not used in the first place (backport #13039) by @gaeljw
• #13111 [2.9.x] Module: Accept constructor with (com.typesafe.config.Config) (backport #13044) by @tsawada
• #13006 [2.9.x] Change access modifier to package private for RoutingDsl.{Route,RouteParam} (backport #13003) by @WojciechMazur

Full Changelog

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #13187 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13186 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.10.Final (was 6.6.9.Final) by @mkurz
• #13180 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13170 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13169 [2.9.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.119.Final (was 4.1.118.Final) by @mkurz
• #13165 [2.9.x] Avoid outdated commons-io in htmlunit and fluentlenium (backport #13164) by @mkurz
• #13152 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.9.Final (was 6.6.6.Final) by @mkurz
• #13154 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13151 [2.9.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.118.Final (was 4.1.117.Final) by @mkurz
• #13153 [2.9.x] scalafmt-core 3.9.1 (was 3.8.6) by @mkurz
• #13146 [2.9.x] Explicitly submit the root project's dependency (backport #13145) by @mkurz
• #13144 [2.9.x] Scala 3.3.5 in docs (backport #13141) by @mkurz
• #13131 [2.9.x] Documentation update: Add VSCode and url fixes to IDE page (backport #13014) by @TimothyFothergill
• #13129 [2.9.x] Documentation Update: Asset timestamp handling with sbt (backport #12895) by @RommelTJ
• #13127 [2.9.x] Eager bindings docs clarification (backport #12896) by @RommelTJ
• #13125 [2.9.x] Updates Custom Field Constructor Documentation (backport #12892) by @RommelTJ
• #13122 [2.9.x] Update link on how to fix slow localhost resolution (backport #13120) by @mkurz
• #13116 [2.9.x] Avoid error at shutdown if tmpdir is not writeable but was not used in the first place (backport #13039) by @gaeljw
• #13114 [2.9.x] Add example and fix doc for asynchronous accepting WebSocket (backport #13035) by @ihostage
• #13111 [2.9.x] Module: Accept constructor with (com.typesafe.config.Config) (backport #13044) by @tsawada
• #13103 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.6.Final (was 6.6.4.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13104 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13085 [2.9.x] Fix apiMappings by @mkurz
• #13075 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13072 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13067 [2.9.x] Prepare scalafmt upgrade (backport #13066) by @mkurz
• #13061 [2.9.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.117.Final (was 4.1.116.Final) by @mkurz
• #13060 [2.9.x] sbt-native-packager 1.11.0 (was 1.10.4) by @mkurz
• #13062 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #13049 [2.9.x] Scala 2.13.16 (backport #13047) by @mkurz
• #13038 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #13037 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.4.Final (was 6.6.3.Final) by @scala-steward
• #13034 [2.9.x] Fix Dependency Graph action (backport #13032) by @ihostage
• #13026 [2.9.x] Fix Microbenchmark tests to make it work with upcoming Scala releases (backport #13025) by @mkurz
• #13023 [2.9.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.116.Final (was 4.1.115.Final) (backport #13016) by @scala-steward
• #13006 [2.9.x] Change access modifier to package private for RoutingDsl.{Route,RouteParam} (backport #13003) by @WojciechMazur
• #12999 [2.9.x] sbt 1.10.6 (backport #12998) by @mkurz

For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.9.7 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)!

The Play Team is pleased to announce the release of Play 3.0.6! 🎉

📗 About this Release

Play is pretty stable at this point - we hardly get bug reports, which is great! This release primarily upgrades dependencies, and we strongly recommend upgrading at your earliest convenience.

If you're considering upgrading to Play 3.0, please check the Play 3.0 release announcement for highlights and further details on how to migrate. Many projects have already smoothly upgraded to Play 3.0.

Noteworthy Pull Request

• playframework/play-ws #866 Use latest netty-reactive-streams version, ahc comes with outdated one by @mkurz
  • Ensures the shaded AsyncHttpClient dependency shipped with play-ws uses the latest Netty release. This resolves an issue where AsyncHttpClient depended on an outdated version of netty-reactive-streams, which also pulled in an outdated Netty release. Now everything is up-to-date.
• #12818 [3.0.x] Fix jjwt 0.12 compatibility for setExpiration method by @PromanSEW

Full Changelog

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #12992 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.3.Final (was 6.6.2.Final) by @mkurz
• #12974 [3.0.x] play-ws 3.0.6 by @mkurz
• #12971 [3.0.x] netty-reactive-streams-http 3.0.3 (was 3.0.2) by @mkurz
• #12963 [3.0.x] Netty 4.1.115.Final by @mkurz
• #12961 [3.0.x] Pin joda-convert by @mkurz
• #12955 [3.0.x] sbt-ci-release 1.9.0 (was 1.8.0) by @mkurz
• #12954 [3.0.x] sbt-buildinfo 0.13.1 (was 0.12.0) by @mkurz
• #12959 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #12957 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.2.Final (was 6.6.1.Final) by @mkurz
• #12956 [3.0.x] sbt-pekko-version-check 0.0.7 (was 0.0.5) by @mkurz
• #12906 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #12905 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.1.Final (was 6.6.0.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12904 [3.0.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.114.Final (was 4.1.113.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12903 [3.0.x] sbt-ci-release 1.8.0 (was 1.6.1) by @scala-steward
• #12916 [3.0.x] Fix broken link (backport #12914) by @sf17490
• #12908 [3.0.x] Rename stale-on-error to stale-if-error (backport #12902) by @alexmuller
• #12890 [3.0.x] Scala Steward: Pin joda-time by @mkurz
• #12871 [3.0.x] Upgrade scala (2.13 + 3.3) and sbt (backport #12868) by @mkurz
• #12860 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #12869 [3.0.x] Pin Pekko [HTTP] to 1.0.x by @mkurz
• #12851 [3.0.x] Netty 4.1.113 (backport #12846) by @mkurz
• #12849 [3.0.x] Scala 2.12.20 (backport #12845) by @mkurz
• #12832 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #12830 [3.0.x] sbt-ci-release 1.6.0 (was 1.5.12) by @scala-steward
• #12831 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.6.0.Final (was 6.5.2.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12818 [3.0.x] Fix jjwt 0.12 compatibility for setExpiration method by @PromanSEW

For more details see the full list of changes and the 3.0.6 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)!

The Play Team is pleased to announce the release of Play 2.9.6! 🎉

📗 About this Release

Play is pretty stable at this point - we hardly get bug reports, which is great! This release primarily upgrades dependencies, and we strongly recommend upgrading at your earliest convenience.

If you're considering upgrading to Play 2.9, please check the Play 2.9 release announcement for highlights and further details on how to migrate. Many projects have already smoothly upgraded to Play 2.9.

Noteworthy Pull Request

• playframework/play-ws #866 Use latest netty-reactive-streams version, ahc comes with outdated one by @mkurz
  • Ensures the shaded AsyncHttpClient dependency shipped with play-ws uses the latest Netty release. This resolves an issue where AsyncHttpClient depended on an outdated version of netty-reactive-streams, which also pulled in an outdated Netty release. Now everything is up-to-date.
• #12820 [2.9.x] Fix jjwt 0.12 compatibility for setExpiration method (backport #12818) by @PromanSEW

Full Changelog

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #12990 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.3.Final (was 6.6.2.Final) by @mkurz
• #12973 [2.9.x] play-ws 2.2.10 by @mkurz
• #12970 [2.9.x] netty-reactive-streams-http 2.0.13 (was 2.0.12) by @mkurz
• #12962 [2.9.x] Netty 4.1.115.Final by @mkurz
• #12960 [2.9.x] Pin joda-convert by @mkurz
• #12950 [2.9.x] sbt-buildinfo 0.13.1 (was 0.12.0) by @mkurz
• #12953 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #12951 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.2.Final (was 6.6.1.Final) by @mkurz
• #12935 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #12933 [2.9.x] sbt-akka-version-check 0.4 (was 0.3) by @scala-steward
• #12934 [2.9.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.114.Final (was 4.1.113.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12932 [2.9.x] sbt-ci-release 1.9.0 (was 1.6.1) by @scala-steward
• #12917 [2.9.x] Fix broken link (backport #12914) by @sf17490
• #12909 [2.9.x] Rename stale-on-error to stale-if-error (backport #12902) by @alexmuller
• #12885 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #12889 [2.9.x] Scala Steward: Pin joda-time by @mkurz
• #12884 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.1.Final (was 6.6.0.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12872 [2.9.x] Upgrade scala (2.13 + 3.3) and sbt (backport #12868) by @mkurz
• #12848 [2.9.x] Scala 2.12.20 (backport #12845) by @mkurz
• #12850 [2.9.x] Netty 4.1.113 (backport #12846) by @mkurz
• #12839 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.6.0.Final (was 6.5.2.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12838 [2.9.x] sbt-ci-release 1.6.1 (was 1.5.12) by @scala-steward
• #12820 [2.9.x] Fix jjwt 0.12 compatibility for setExpiration method (backport #12818) by @PromanSEW

For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.9.6 milestone.

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The Play Team is happy to announce the release of Play 3.0.5! 🥳

📗 About this Release

This patch release primarily upgrades dependencies and fixes a bug that may occur in specific situations during file uploads. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

If you're considering upgrading to Play 3.0, please check the Play 3.0 release announcement for highlights and further details on how to migrate. Many projects have already smoothly upgraded to Play 3.0.

Noteworthy Pull Request

• #12779 [3.0.x] Prevent TemporaryFile to be deleted before returning a response (backport #12772) by @tkawachi
  • Prevent a TemporaryFile from being deleted until the response is finished.
• #12785 [3.0.x] Pekko 1.0.3 (backport #12781) by @mkurz
  • Upgrades to the latest stable release of Pekko.
• #12796 [3.0.x] Backport Pekko 1.1.0-M1 explicit supervision strategy setting by @gwak
  • Allows you to upgrade to Pekko 1.1.0-M1 if desired.

Full Changelog

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #12796 [3.0.x] Backport Pekko 1.1.0-M1 explicit supervision strategy setting by @gwak
• #12799 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #12812 [3.0.x] h2 2.3.230 (was 2.2.224) by @mkurz
• #12813 [3.0.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.112.Final (was 4.1.111.Final) by @mkurz
• #12783 [3.0.x] jjwt 0.12.6 (for testing only) by @mkurz
• #12779 [3.0.x] Prevent TemporaryFile to be deleted before returning a response (backport #12772) by @tkawachi
• #12785 [3.0.x] Pekko 1.0.3 (backport #12781) by @mkurz

For more details see the full list of changes and the 3.0.5 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)!

The Play Team is happy to announce the release of Play 2.9.5! 🥳

📗 About this Release

This patch release primarily upgrades dependencies and fixes a bug that may occur in specific situations during file uploads. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

If you're considering upgrading to Play 2.9, please check the Play 2.9 release announcement for highlights and further details on how to migrate. Many projects have already smoothly upgraded to Play 2.9.

Noteworthy Pull Request

• #12780 [2.9.x] Prevent TemporaryFile to be deleted before returning a response (backport #12772) by @tkawachi
  • Prevent a TemporaryFile from being deleted until the response is finished.

Full Changelog

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #12797 [2.9.x] Backport explicit supervision strategy setting (backport #12796) by @gwak
• #12811 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #12809 [2.9.x] h2 2.3.230 (was 2.2.224) by @mkurz
• #12810 [2.9.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.112.Final (was 4.1.111.Final) by @mkurz
• #12786 [2.9.x] jjwt 0.12.6 (for testing only) (backport #12783) by @mkurz
• #12780 [2.9.x] Prevent TemporaryFile to be deleted before returning a response (backport #12772) by @tkawachi

For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.9.5 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)!

The Play Team is delighted to announce the release of Play 3.0.4! 🎉

📗 About this Release

This patch release addresses a couple of bugs and upgrades dependencies. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

If you're considering upgrading to Play 3.0, please check the Play 3.0 release announcement for highlights and further details on how to migrate. Many projects have already smoothly upgraded to Play 3.0.

Noteworthy Pull Request

• #12724 [3.0.x] Update changed assets in subprojects (backport #12721) by @mkurz
  • Fixes #12484 "Asset changes in subprojects" by @n4cer
  • Fixes #12636 "Issue with sbt-web/sassify, sub-projects, and the Play dev server..." by @mikesname

Full Changelog

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #12766 [3.0.x] play-json 3.0.4 by @mkurz
• #12644 [3.0.x] Twirl 2.0.6 by @mkurz
• #12758 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #12755 [3.0.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.111.Final (was 4.1.110.Final) by @mkurz
• #12757 [3.0.x] webjars-locator-core 0.59 (was 0.58) by @mkurz
• #12735 [3.0.x] Temporary remove ~run from docs because it's broken since long time (backport #12734) by @mkurz
• #12731 [3.0.x] Add .sdkmanrc to .gitignore (backport #12730) by @mkurz
• #12729 [3.0.x] Fix comments for Pekko configurations (backport #12723) by @harry0000
• #12724 [3.0.x] Update changed assets in subprojects (backport #12721) by @mkurz
• #12726 [3.0.x] Fix Pekko configuration value to match the official documentation (backport #12722) by @harry0000
• #12715 [3.0.x] Try fix log reconfigure error (backport #12667) by @jilen
• #12710 [3.0.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #12709 [3.0.x] hibernate-core 6.5.2.Final (was 6.5.0.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12708 [3.0.x] sbt-pekko-version-check 0.0.5 (was 0.0.3) by @scala-steward
• #12707 [3.0.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.110.Final (was 4.1.109.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12705 [3.0.x] Introduce sbt-pekko-version-check plugin (backport #12637) by @Philippus
• #12699 [3.0.x] Play 2.8 EOL in docs (backport #12698) by @mkurz
• #12658 [3.0.x] Finally run tests with Java 21 by @mkurz
• #12655 [3.0.x] Pin persistence-api in scala-steward conf (backport #12654) by @mkurz
• #12639 [3.0.x] Bump scalacenter/sbt-dependency-submission from 2 to 3 by @dependabot
• #12628 [3.0.x] sbt 1.10.0 by @mkurz
• #12626 [3.0.x] Add scripted test to check jjwt compatibility by @mkurz
• #12624 [3.0.x] Fix jjwt compatibility to allow upgrades by @mkurz

For more details see the full list of changes and the 3.0.4 milestone.

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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)!

The Play Team is delighted to announce the release of Play 2.9.4! 🎉

📗 About this Release

This patch release addresses a couple of bugs and incompatibilities, and upgrades dependencies. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

If you're considering upgrading to Play 2.9, please check the Play 2.9 release announcement for highlights and further details on how to migrate. Many projects have already smoothly upgraded to Play 2.9.

Noteworthy Pull Requests

• #12719 [2.9.x] Fix https compatibility with akka-http 10.6.x by @dwickern
  • Fixes #12711 "Play 2.9 incompatible with akka-http 10.6.x when using https" by @dwickern
• #12725 [2.9.x] Update changed assets in subprojects (backport #12721) by @mkurz
  • Fixes #12484 "Asset changes in subprojects" by @n4cer
  • Fixes #12636 "Issue with sbt-web/sassify, sub-projects, and the Play dev server..." by @mikesname

Full Changelog

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #12765 [2.9.x] play-json 2.10.6 by @mkurz
• #12760 [2.9.x] Twirl 1.6.7 by @mkurz
• #12744 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @mkurz
• #12741 [2.9.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.111.Final (was 4.1.110.Final) by @mkurz
• #12743 [2.9.x] webjars-locator-core 0.59 (was 0.58) by @mkurz
• #12736 [2.9.x] Temporary remove ~run from docs because it's broken since long time (backport #12734) by @mkurz
• #12732 [2.9.x] Add .sdkmanrc to .gitignore (backport #12730) by @mkurz
• #12719 [2.9.x] Fix https compatibility with akka-http 10.6.x by @dwickern
• #12725 [2.9.x] Update changed assets in subprojects (backport #12721) by @mkurz
• #12727 [2.9.x] Fix Pekko configuration value to match the official documentation (backport #12722) by @harry0000
• #12716 [2.9.x] Try fix log reconfigure error (backport #12667) by @jilen
• #12700 [2.9.x] Play 2.8 EOL in docs (backport #12698) by @mkurz
• #12660 [2.9.x] Finally run tests with Java 21 (backport #12658) by @mkurz
• #12653 [2.9.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #12654 [2.9.x] Pin persistence-api in scala-steward conf by @mkurz
• #12650 [2.9.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.110.Final (was 4.1.109.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12652 [2.9.x] hibernate-core 6.5.2.Final (was 6.5.0.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12649 [2.9.x] sbt-akka-version-check 0.3 (was 0.2) by @scala-steward
• #12640 [2.9.x] Bump scalacenter/sbt-dependency-submission from 2 to 3 by @dependabot
• #12629 [2.9.x] sbt 1.10.0 (backport #12628) by @mkurz
• #12627 [2.9.x] Add scripted test to check jjwt compatibility (backport #12626) by @mkurz
• #12625 [2.9.x] Fix jjwt compatibility to allow upgrades (backport #12624) by @mkurz

For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.9.4 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)!