Release Play 2.8.0-RC1

[dwijnand]

Preparing 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
• Triage issues

Do the Release (Full document)

• Release projects that Play depends on
  • release play-json
    • Look for PRs that should be merged.
    • Look at status:needs-backport issues/PRs (including closed ones).
    • Look at issues/PRs tagged milestone version (including closed ones).
    • Update any dependencies that are needed. (e.g JDK, Scala)
  • release play-ws
    • Look for PRs that should be merged.
    • Look at status:needs-backport issues/PRs (including closed ones).
    • Look at issues/PRs tagged milestone version (including closed ones).
    • Update any dependencies that are needed. (e.g JDK, Scala)
    • Make sure play-ws uses new play-json
  • release twirl
    • Look for PRs that should be merged.
    • Look at status:needs-backport issues/PRs (including closed ones).
    • Look at issues/PRs tagged milestone version (including closed ones).
    • Update any dependencies that are needed. (e.g JDK, Scala)
• Release Play itself
  • Look for PRs that should be merged.
  • Look at status:needs-backport issues/PRs (including closed ones).
  • Look at issues/PRs tagged milestone version (including closed ones).
  • Update any dependencies that are needed. (e.g JDK, Scala)
  • Make sure play uses new play-json, play-ws, twirl
• Release external modules
  • release play-slick
  • release scalatestplus-play
  • release play-grpc
• Release omnidoc
  • Play 2.8.0-RC1 + ScalaTest+Play + Play Slick omnidoc#77
• Update the supported modules page
• Update playframework templates and seeds
  • [2.8] Update Play to 2.8.0-RC1 play-samples#60
• Update Example Code Service
• Update playframework.com
  • Update development version to 2.8.0-RC1 playframework.com#343
• 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.
• Post release tasks

[marcospereira]

The release announcement is here: https://github.com/playframework/playframework/releases/tag/2.8.0-RC1

@ignasi35 hope you approve my emoji choices 🙏