Release Play 2.8.11

[octonato]

Preparing the release

We will release a new version of Play since 2.8.9 is broken when used together with PlayWs (https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/11027).

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] Akka Team
• x[]

Do the Release (Full document)

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  • [x] release play-ws
  • [x] Look for PRs that should be merged.
  • [x] Look at status:needs-backport, status:needs-forwardport 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)
  • [x] Make sure play-ws uses new play-json

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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)
  • [x] Make sure play uses new play-ws

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• [ ] ~Update the supported modules page~

• [ ] ~Update playframework templates and seeds~

• [ ] ~Update Example Code Service~

• x[]

  • [ ] ~Update .version in play-generated-docs~
  • x[]
  • [ ] ~Update versions for Example Code Service~
  • x[]

• x[]

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

• x[]

[octonato]

I renamed this to 2.8.11 instead of creating yet another issue. 2.8.10 is burned, so let's just continue from here.

[mkurz]

Bad news, seems like 2.8.11 is broken once more: #11032

[ennru]

Play 2.8.11 is out. The docs don't list it properly, yet: https://www.playframework.com/releases