Release Play 2.7.1

[marcospereira]

Communicate the release

Better to do this in advance:

• Make sure that other teams inside Lightbend are aware of the upcoming release, even if it is a minor/patch one
  • Lightbend Telemetry Team
  • Lightbend Platform Team
  • Akka Team

Do the Release (Full document)

• Release projects that Play depends on

  • release play-json
  • release play-ws
  • release twirl

• Release Play itself

• Release external modules

  • release play-slick no relevant changes
  • release scalatestplus-play: Play 2.7.1 scalatestplus-play#152 - version 4.0.2 released!
  • release play-grpc: Update dependencies including Play 2.7.1 play-grpc#91 - version 0.7.0 released!

• Release omnidoc

• Update playframework templates and seeds

• Update Example Code Service

• Update playframework.com

• Announce

  • Write a blog post on https://playframework.ghost.io/ghost/24 about the release.
  • Write a topic on https://discuss.lightbend.com/
  • Write a release on https://github.com/playframework/playframework/releases
  • Send an internal email to eng-updates
  • Tweet about the new release.

[marcospereira]

• Blog post: https://blog.playframework.com/play-2-7-1-released/
• Tweet: https://twitter.com/playframework/status/1121075508756787200
• Discuss: https://discuss.lightbend.com/t/play-2-7-1-released/4051
• Github release: https://github.com/playframework/playframework/releases/tag/2.7.1