1.0.6 January 18 2016

Maintenance release for Akka.NET v1.0.5
This patch consists of many bug fixes, performance improvements, as well as the addition of two brand new alpha modules for Akka.Cluster users.

Akka.Cluster.Tools and Akka.Cluster.Sharding
The biggest part of this release is the addition of Akka.Cluster.Tools and Akka.Cluster.Sharding, both of which are available now as pre-release packages on NuGet.

PM> Install-Package Akka.Cluster.Tools -pre

and

PM> Install-Package Akka.Cluster.Sharding -pre

Respectively, these two packages extend Akka.Cluster to do the following:

1. Distributed pub/sub (Akka.Cluster.Tools)
2. ClusterClient - subscribe to changes in cluster availability without actually being part of the cluster itself. (Akka.Cluster.Tools)
3. ClusterSingleton - guarantee a single instance of a specific actor throughout the cluster. (Akka.Cluster.Tools)
4. Sharding - partition data into durable stores (built on top of Akka.Persistence) in a manner that is fault-tolerant and recoverable across thecluster. (Akka.Cluster.Sharding)

Check out the documentation for more details!

• http://getakka.net/docs/clustering/cluster-tools
• http://getakka.net/docs/clustering/cluster-sharding

Fixes & Changes - Akka.NET Core

• Fix incorrect serialization of Unicode characters in NewtonSoftJsonSerializer
• Fixed: Supervisorstrategy does not preserve stacktrace
• added initial performance specs using NBench
• Add wire back as contrib package + Serialization TestKit
• Implemented the RegisterOnTermination feature.
• Increased performance of DedicatedThreadPool
• #1605 updated Google.ProtocolBuffers to 2.4.1.555
• Clear current message - fixes #1609
• Rewrite of the AtomicReference
• Implemented WhenTerminated and Terminate
• Implemented StartTime and Uptime
• API Diff with fixed Approval file
• Fixed: NullReferenceException in Akka.Util.Internal.Collections.ImmutableAvlTreeBase`2.RotateLeft

Fixes & Changes - Akka.Remote & Akka.Cluster
It should be noted that we've improved the throughput from Akka.NET v1.0.5 to 1.0.6 by a factor of 8

• Akka.Cluster.Tools & Akka.Cluster.Sharding with tests and examples
• Added UntrustedSpec
• Akka.Remote Performance - String.Format logging perf fix
• Remoting system upgrade
• PublicHostname defaults to IPAddress.Any when hostname is blank
• Removes code that overrides OFF log level with WARNING.
• fixes issue with Helios message ordering
• Fixed: Actor does not receive "Terminated" message if remoting is used and it is not monitored actor's parent

Fixes & Changes - Akka.Persistence

• Fixed racing conditions on sql-based snapshot stores
• Fix for race conditions in presistence plugins
• Fix #1522 Ensure extensions and persistence plugins are only registered/created once

A special thanks to all of our contributors for making this happen!
18 contributors since release v1.0.5