Release 2.10.4

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Release Akka 2.10.4

Cutting the release

• [x] Check that open PRs and issues assigned to the milestone are reasonable
• [ ] If PRs were merged after EU midnight, trigger the native-image tests and see that they are green.
• [x] Update the version and change date in the LICENSE file.
• [x] Update the Akka version in the samples to 2.10.4, otherwise the published zip files of the samples will have the old version.
• [x] Create a new milestone for the next version
• [x] Close the 2.10.4 milestone
• [x] Make sure all important PRs have been merged
• [ ] Update the revision in Fossa in the Akka Group for the Akka umbrella version, e.g. 22.10. Note that the revisions for the release is udpated by Akka Group > Projects > Edit. For recent dependency updates the Fossa validation can be triggered from the GitHub actions "Dependency License Scanning".
• [x] Wait until main build finished after merging the latest PR
• [x] Update the draft release with the next tag version v2.10.4, title and release description. Use the Publish release button, which will create the tag.
• [x] Check that GitHub Actions release build has executed successfully (GitHub Actions will start a CI build for the new tag and publish artifacts to https://repo.akka.io/maven)

Check availability

• [x] Check API documentation
• [ ] Check reference documentation. Check that the reference docs were deployed and show a version warning (see section below on how to fix the version warning).
• [ ] Check the release on https://repo.akka.io/maven/com/typesafe/akka/akka-actor_2.13/2.10.4/akka-actor_2.13-2.10.4.pom

When everything is on https://repo.akka.io/maven

• [x] Log into gustav.akka.io as akkarepo
  • [x] If this updates the current version, run ./update-akka-current-version.sh 2.10.4
  • [x] otherwise check changes and commit the new version to the local git repository

    cd ~/www
    git status
    git add libraries/akka-core/current libraries/akka-core/2.10.4
    git add api/akka-core/current api/akka-core/2.10.4
    git add japi/akka-core/current japi/akka-core/2.10.4
    git commit -m "Akka 2.10.4"
    

  • [x] push changes to the remote git repository

    cd ~/www
    git push origin master
    

• [x] If this updated 'current' docs - trigger a re-index of the docs for search through Run workflow for the scraper
• [x] Update version in _config.yml in https://github.com/akka/akka.io

Announcements

• Add a summary of relevant changes into release notes

For minor or major releases:

• [ ] Include noteworthy features and improvements in Akka umbrella release announcement at akka.io. Coordinate with PM and marketing.

Afterwards

• [ ] Update MiMa.latestPatchOf and PR that change (project/MiMa.scala)
• [ ] Update akka-dependencies bom and version for Akka module versions in akka-dependencies repo
• [ ] Update Akka Guide samples
• [ ] Update sbt new templates:
  • [ ] Akka Scala
  • [ ] Akka HTTP Scala
  • [ ] Akka gRPC Scala
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