Akka.NET v1.4.17 release

[Aaronontheweb]

1.4.17 March 09 2021

Maintenance Release for Akka.NET 1.4

This is a more significant release of Akka.NET that solves a number of bugs, introduces new features, and more.

Introduction of Akka.Cluster.SBR - Lightbend's Split Brain Resolvers
In Akka.NET v1.4.17 we introduce a new set of Akka.Cluster split brain resolvers for Akka.NET, which are based on the recently open sourced Lightbend implementations of the same. We've documented how to work with each of the new SBR types here, but here's the complete list:

• static-quorum
• keep-majority
• keep-oldest
• down-all
• lease-majority
• keep-referee - only available with the legacy split brain resolver (still ships with Akka.NET.)

Other bug fixes:

• Akka: Parse expressions where possible to avoid penalties for .Compile()
• Akka: Ask can't find temporary actor inside async context
• Akka: Add Serialization.WithTransport overload that takes TState
• Akka.DependencyInjection: Allow different versions of MS Abstractions nuget package
• Akka.DependencyInjection: ServiceProviderProps did not copy over Deploy and SupervisorStrategy properties properly
• Akka.Cluster.Tools: on singleton-proxy setting buffer-size to 0 via Hocon fail on exception
• Akka.Streams: InputStreamPublisher cannot be cancelled and StreamRef will be blocked
• Akka.DistributedData: ORDictionary.DeltaGroup.Merge InvalidCastException
• Akka.TestKit: Expect(0) with EventFilter does not work

To see the full set of fixes in Akka.NET v1.4.17, please see the milestone on Github.

COMMITS	LOC+	LOC-	AUTHOR
20	282	237	IgorFedchenko
14	76	25	Aaron Stannard
13	17	17	dependabot-preview[bot]
8	1031	749	Igor Fedchenko
6	225	53	Gregorius Soedharmo
3	3	3	Brah McDude
2	328	21	Drew
1	4053	59	zbynek001
1	2	1	Vagif Abilov