Difference between Play Framework 1.2.5.3 and 1.2.7

Question

I am doing a new installation on a workstation and notice that there is now a split in Play 1.x, as there are 1.2.5.3 and 1.2.7. It is difficult to find differences through search. I poked the source here

https://github.com/playframework/play1/tree/1.2.7

and I really see no reason to use 1.2.5.3 instead of 1.2.7 (most of my code was developed in 1.2.5, but the update in production didn’t break anything). Any reason to use 1.2.5.3 because it is “newer”. I know that these 1.x guys are limited in time and hardworking at 1.3, so if someone just has a quick answer, it would be helpful, I think.

This was also discussed earlier in 1.2.6, I expect the same can be true for 1.2.7.

Difference between Play Framework version 1.2.5.1 and 1.2.6?

Thanks.

Answer 1

1.2.5.3 adds a new version of the netty library (3.4.2 → 3.5.11).

Recently, version 1.2.5.1 was released only with a security patch and 1.2.6 with all sinces 1.2.5 fixes. The same for 1.2.5.2 and 1.2.7.

Since then, version 1.2.5.3 has only been released with the netty update. There were no 1.2.8 releases containing all the other fixes. You have to check the problem that Karsten mentioned in order to check the commits in both versions to make sure that you have what you need with 1.2.7, because, as far as I can see, the net update is not in 1.2.7 yet