Play 1.3.0RC1 — Release notes

The changes in this release are listed in the Play 1.3.0 milestone on Lighthouse, including 404 resolved tickets. Play 1.3.0 is a maintenance release so it mostly contains bug fixes. The most important are:

• fixed multiple continuations/await bugs
• fixed multiple test bugs (auto-test/async/htmlunit)
• numerous libraries upgraded (a.o. netty, hibernate, etc)
• numerous i18n fixes
• experimental java 8 support (however, hibernate does not support it, so some edge cases might now work)
• improved intellij support

Next to these, there are also some new features in this release:

• multiple databases support
• customisable netty pipeline
• customisable template name resolving
• introduce filters in the plugin API
• project documentation viewer in dev mode
• improved Job support – added afterRequest() support
• improved Mailer

Migration notes

• Java 1.5 is no longer supported
• Modules dependencies resolution change from http://www.playframework.org to https://www.playframework.com
• run ‘play deps’ to make sure your dependencies are up-to-date

Known issues

• cobertura does not work

A big thank you to all who made this release possible