The Play team is proud to announce the release of Play 2.6.0. This release adds a number of new features and continues our efforts to make Play more modular, flexible, and secure. It also completes our removal of global state from the core of Play, making it easier to write self-contained Play applications.

What's new?

Some improvements in Play 2.6.0 include:

As usual, you can see the full list of improvements in the release highlights and learn how to migrate from the migration guide. See the full changelog for the complete list of changes.

Play seeds and example projects

To get started, you can use one of the seed projects available from the Play website. There are also a number of more detailed examples, which are also available on GitHub (see the 2.6.x branch on any example repo).

Thanks to our contributors

A special thanks to the many hard-working contributors to this release:

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