Release Play 2.8.2

[ignasi35]

Preparing the release

Better to do this in advance:

• [x] Make sure that other teams inside Lightbend are aware of the upcoming release, even if it is a minor/patch one
  • [x] Lightbend Telemetry Team
  • [x] Lightbend Platform Team
  • [x] Akka Team
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Do the Release (Full document)

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  • [ ] ~release play-json~
  • [ ] ~release play-ws~
  • [ ] ~release twirl~

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  • [x] Look for PRs that should be merged.
  • [x] Look at status:needs-backport, status:needs-forwardport, status:needs-backport-2.6 issues/PRs (including closed ones).
  • [x] Look at issues/PRs tagged milestone version (including closed ones).
  • [x] Update any dependencies that are needed. (e.g JDK, Scala)

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  • [ ] ~release play-slick~
  • [ ] ~release scalatestplus-play~
  • [ ] ~release play-grpc~

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  • Attention: the release of 2.8.1 didn't complete this step and the tag for 2.8.1 in play-generated-docs` is missing.

• [ ] ~Update the supported modules page~

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• [ ] ~Update Example Code Service~

• x[] (both 2.8.2 and 2.7.5)

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  • [x] Write a topic on https://discuss.lightbend.com/ (both 2.8.2 and 2.7.5)
  • [x] Write a release on https://github.com/playframework/playframework/releases
  • [x] Send an internal email to eng-updates (both 2.8.2 and 2.7.5)
  • [x] Tweet about the new release. (both 2.8.2 and 2.7.5)

• x[]

[mkurz]

We also should release a new interplay version and use that for the release: https://github.com/playframework/interplay/pull/116 Scala 2.13.2 fixes a bug where wrong bytecode gets generated: https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/8514 (Actually I ran into that bug)