v2.9.0

New Features

• ForwardTo on the ReceiveContext to forward message to a given actor when cluster mode is enabled. It passes a message from one actor to another actor by preserving the initial sender of the message.
• RemoteForward on the ReceiveContext to pass a message from one actor to another actor on a remote machine by preserving the initial sender of the message.

Breaking Changes

• Fix bad api design of the remoting methods which necessitated a breaking changes in the accepted arguments of the following methods which now accepts a from alongside the existing arguments
  • RemoteTell
  • RemoteAsk
  • RemoteBatchAsk
  • RemoteBatchTell

Commits and PRs

• feat(enhancement): add ForwardTo and RemoteForward by @Tochemey in #538
• fix(design): fix bad design of remoting call by @Tochemey in #539

Full Changelog: v2.8.3...v.2.8.4

v2.8.3

What's Changed

• perf: speed up actor shutdown by @Tochemey in #532
• fix: fix remoting message address bug by @Tochemey in #533
• fix(bugs): retain dns name and resolves ip addresses by @Tochemey in #535

Full Changelog: v2.8.2...v2.8.3

v2.8.2

What's Changed

• fix(bugs): fix supervision implementation bug by @Tochemey in #527
• Fix typo in README by @sdil in #529
• fix: enhance shutdown process by @Tochemey in #530

Full Changelog: v2.8.1...v2.8.2

v2.8.1

What's Changed

• Dependencies upgrade by @renovate in #519
• NATs discovery configuration now accept host and discoveryPort rather than a node instance. by @Tochemey in #520. See https://github.com/Tochemey/goakt?tab=readme-ov-file#nats-discovery-provider-setup
• One can set a custom supervisor directive when creating an actor using the newly added option WithSupervisor by @Tochemey in #522. See https://github.com/Tochemey/goakt/blob/main/actors/spawn_option.go#L70C6-L70C20
• Code maintenance by @Tochemey in #521

Full Changelog: v2.8.0...v2.8.1

v2.8.0

Breaking Changes

• WithReplyTimeout removed from the ActorSystem option
• All ask-based methods on PID and ReceiveContext accept a mandatory timeout argument:
  • Ask`
  • SendSync`
  • BatchAsk
  • RemoteAsk
  • RemoteBatchAsk

Add-ons

• Add Schedule and RemoteSchedule methods to Scheduler
• ExpectMessage and ExpectMessageWithin in the testkit have been refactored
• New remoting API that will allow to extend it with mTLS in the future
• Abstract remoting into a nice struct called Remoting for client communication
• Refactor the cluster client to accept concrete Node instance rather than mere array list of addresses. This help to tailor client connection appropriately to the given node
• Ensure that every http client connection closes appropriately to avoid resource leakage.

What's Changed

• feat: add Schedule and RemoteSchedule to scheduler by @Tochemey in #493
• refactor: refactor ExpectMessage and ExpectMessageWithin by @Tochemey in #496
• Fix typo by @autodidaddict in #503
• refactor: cleanup the code to allow easy extensibility by @Tochemey in #505
• refactor: use sync.Map for peersCache in actor system by @Tochemey in #512
• refactor: remove system ask timeout and pass timeout to asks by @Tochemey in #515

New Contributors

• @autodidaddict made their first contribution in #503

Full Changelog: v2.7.1...v2.8.0

v2.7.1

What's Changed

• refactor: enhance code coverage by @Tochemey in #482
• refactor: remove otel collector from client code by @Tochemey in #485
• refactor: refactor pidMap using sync.Map by @Tochemey in #486
• perf: add sync loop to message processing by @Tochemey in #491

Note

🎉🎉🎉This release enhances the performance of the framework drastically by the introduction of sync.Map and sync.Pool🎉🎉🎉

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v2.7.1

v2.7.0

What's Changed

• Expose mailbox API
• Implement UnboundedMailbox using mpsc queue which is the default mailbox
• Implement BoundedMailbox using the ring buffer queue
• Add a SpawnOption to spawn actor with custom mailbox if needed.
• Add some performance enhancement
• Add benchmark code for both UnboundedMailbox and BoundedMailbox
• Expose counters and remove OpenTelemetry dependency [breaking change]

Commits

• refactor: remove OpenTelemetry dependency by @Tochemey in #472
• chore: upgrade nats dependencies and enhance stale bot message by @Tochemey in #477
• feat: expose an API for custom mailboxes by @Tochemey in #479

Full Changelog: v2.6.2...v2.7.0

v2.6.2

What's Changed

• feat: add location transparent messaging capabilities by @Tochemey in #457
• refactor: add test coverage for cluster rebalancing by @Tochemey in #458
• refactor: make some method private by @Tochemey in #459
• refactor: clean the addressing engine by @Tochemey in #460
• refactor: rename gcInternal to janitorInterval to avoid confusing with Go GC by @Tochemey in #463
• perf: performance tuning by @Tochemey in #468
• refactor: move stash back to mailbox by @Tochemey in #469

Breaking Changes

• Rename GossipPort to DiscoveryPort in discovery.Node (breaking changes)
• Rename ClusterConfig method WithGossipPort to WithDiscoveryPort (breaking changes)
• Rename ClusterConfig method GossipPort() to DiscoveryPort() (breaking changes)
• Rename kubernetes config GossipPortName to DiscoveryPortName (breaking changes)
• ActorPath has been replaced with Address on PID (breaking changes)

Full Changelog: v2.6.1...v2.6.2

v2.6.1

What's Changed

• perf: refactor receive loop to avoid busy threads by @Tochemey in #443
• chore(deps): upgrade github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 to v2.10.19 by @Tochemey in #445
• fix(bugs): never redistribute system actors by @Tochemey in #447
• fix: use underlying message processor than the PID by @Tochemey in #451
• refactor: remove defer and explictly unlock by @Tochemey in #452

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.6.1

v2.6.0

What's Changed

• Convert ReceiveContext interface into pure go struct. Small breaking change in https://github.com/Tochemey/goakt/blob/main/actors/actor.go#L45 instead of an interface now accept a pointer of ReceiveContext
• Convert PID interface to a pure go struct
• Rewrote the mailbox with concrete type instead of generics
• Rewrote the behavior stack implementation
• Refactor the Ask implementations
• Simplify the receive loop
• Reimplement how processing panic is recovered
• Fix latest message received metric recording poor implementation
• Reimplement how error are thrown during message processing. Use ctx.Error instead of panicking which is the recommended way.
• Remove unused code
• Remove deprecated NATs methods

Pull requests

• refactor: cleaning up code from unecessary code by @Tochemey in #423
• refactor: simplify receive loop by @Tochemey in #424
• refactor: migrate to buff v2 by @Tochemey in #426
• perf: refactor processing error handling by @Tochemey in #431
• refactor: add some local bench test by @Tochemey in #432
• refactor: cleanup by @Tochemey in #435
• refactor: refactor PID to a concrete struct instead of interface by @Tochemey in #436
• chore(deps): upgrade OpenTelemetry to 1.29.0 by @Tochemey in #438
• fix: fix wrong metric recording and cleanup code base by @Tochemey in #440
• refactor: remove NATs deprecated features by @Tochemey in #441

Full Changelog: v2.5.1...v2.6.0