Release 1.3.0

• KAR 1.3.0 introduces several major enhancements to the programming model
  • Failure recovery ensures that a retry of a failed actor invocation will not be executed until after all synchronous calls made by the failed version of the task have completed.
  • Tail calls to the same actor instance retain the actor lock by default.
  • Each actor's queue of incoming messages is now always processed in order.
• There is a new Python SDK.
• The legacy transport layer that predated pkg/rpc was removed.

Release 1.2.3

• JavaSDK: fix Produces annotation on Service.tell* routes in OpenLiberty sidecar (#254)

Release 1.2.2

• Updated npm and maven packages to resolve CVEs (various)
• Update Kafka version to 2.8.1 (#240)
• Bump Quarkus from 2.2.3.Final to 2.4.2.Final (#232)
• Improvements in Java SDKs for getReminders (#238, #245, #246, #247)
• Improve log message for dropped tells (#249)
• Fix for default replication factor for Event Streams (#237)
• Add unit testing infrastructure and RPC library testing (#222)

Release 1.2.1

• Use rpclib by default (#218)
• Add ability to control topic-level message retention (#216, #217)

Release 1.2.0

• Add tail call support to rpclib, SDKs, and use in actors-dp-* examples
• Document deploying on k3d (supplanting k3s)
• Improve microbenchmarks
• Implement a cache of actor placement info for rpclib

Release 1.1.0

• Implement an alternative Kafka-only RPC layer
  • Port KAR runtime to new rpclib APIs
    • Port KAR to new RPC library abstractions (#170)
    • Promote internal/store to pkg/store (#171)
    • Add alternative store.CAS implementation that returns value instead of Boolean (#173)
  • New Kafka-only RPC library
    • Initial import of rpclib (#174)
    • Subsequent fixes (#177), (#178), (#179), (#180), (#184), (#185), (#186)
• Adding a transactional framework in KAR (#167)
• Upgrade from Open Liberty 20.0.0.9 to 21.0.0.7 (#181)
• Upgrade from Quarkus 1.1.13 to 2.2.3 (#176)
• Upgrade from kafka 2.7.0 to 2.7.1 (#182)
• Fix bug introduced in 1.0.9 in redis retry logic (#172)

Release 1.0.9

• Implement a Reactive Java SDK using Quarkus
• Add a retry loop around failed redis connection attempts (#163)
• Also allow controlling sidecar ports via envvar (#153)
• Move from alpine 3.11 to 3.14 for sidecar/webhook images (#151)
• Fixup kafka-bench and re-enable building it. (#150)

Release 1.0.8

• Upgrade to zookeeper 3.6 and kafka 2.7 (#146)
• Upgrade to use Redis 6 (#145)
• Implement cancellation of actor calls from dead sidecars (#144)

Release 1.0.7

• Simplify Java SDK initialization (#139)

Release 1.0.6

• Restructure of Java SDK internals and new maven artifact names
• Add Prometheus metrics endpoint to sidecar