Created by admin on 2010-09-21. Updated: 2010-09-21, 15:01

We are happy to announce the first release candidate of the new Scala distribution: Scala 2.8.1 RC1 is now available from our Download Page. This is a maintenance release; several bugs have been fixed, and some other improvements introduced. The new release is intended to be fully binary compatible with the existing version 2.8.0.

Please help us testing this new release candidate, and let us know of any issues you may detect, or of any binary incompatibility issue that you may encounter. You can find the list of improvements in Scala 2.8.1 below.

The Scala 2.8.1 distribution

This Release Candidate is made available for testing purposes only and is not intended for production environments. We will wait approximately two weeks before issuing a final release, in order to allow developers and testers to send us their feedback.

What is new?

The 2.8.1 release of Scala includes many bug fixes, listed below:



In addition, the release contains many small improvements and fixes, particularly concerning Scaladoc.