🚨 This is the last Play 2.8 release!

More details on EOL (end of life) dates and how Play deals with Akka’s License change can be found here.

📗 Following pull requests got merged for this last Play 2.8 release:

• #12697 [2.8.x] EOL welcome message by @mkurz
• #12683 [2.8.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.110.Final (was 4.1.109.Final) by @mkurz
• #12619 [2.8.x] Pin more deps in scala steward config by @mkurz
• #12505 [2.8.x] netty-codec-http, netty-handler, ... 4.1.109.Final (was 4.1.107.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12429 [2.8.x] scala-steward: pin dependencies by @mkurz
• #12156 [2.8.x] Move away from using lightbend tech hub (WIP) by @wsargent
• #12407 [2.8.x] Explicitly depend on netty-reactive-streams-http transitive dependencies (backport #12403) by @mkurz
• #12378 [2.8.x] netty-transport-native-epoll 4.1.107.Final (was 4.1.104.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12396 [2.8.x] Allow access to deprecated repos by @mkurz
• #12394 [2.8.x] Nicer Scala steward title by @mkurz
• #12315 [2.8.x] Patch updates by @scala-steward
• #12308 [2.8.x] netty-transport-native-epoll 4.1.104.Final (was 4.1.101.Final) by @scala-steward
• #12256 [2.8.x] Bugfix: Always set play.server.http.port, even if disabled by @mkurz
• #12233 [2.8.x] netty-transport-native-epoll 4.1.101.Final (was 4.1.100.Final) by @scala-steward

For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.8.22 milestone.

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🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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Special thanks to all code contributors who helped with this particular release (they are listed below)!