actix

• Add Registry::try_get() method.
• Add Registry::get_or_start_default() method.
• Deprecate Registry::get() method.
• Relax A: ArbiterService bound on Registry::query().
• Relax A: ArbiterService bound on Registry::set().

• Add Registry::try_get() method.
• Add Registry::get_or_start_default() method.
• Deprecate Registry::get() method.
• Relax A: ArbiterService bound on Registry::query().
• Relax A: ArbiterService bound on Registry::set().

• Add AsyncContext::run_interval_at() method.

• Add AsyncContext::run_interval_at() method.

• No significant changes since 0.13.2.

• No significant changes since 0.13.2.

• Expose ContextFut::restart.
• Unquoted types are now allowed in the #[rtype(result = TYPE)] position when type is a path.

• Expose ContextFut::restart.
• Unquoted types are now allowed in the #[rtype(result = TYPE)] position when type is a path.

Added

• Add SyncArbiter::start_with_thread_builder().
• Derive PartialEq and Eq for MailboxError.
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.68.

Fixed

• Fix SinkWrite sometimes not sending all messages in its buffer.

Added

• Add SyncArbiter::start_with_thread_builder().
• Derive PartialEq and Eq for MailboxError.
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.68.

Fixed

• Fix SinkWrite sometimes not sending all messages in its buffer.

Added

• Add Sender::downgrade trait method. #518
• Add Recipient::downgrade method for obtaining a WeakRecipient. #518
• Expose WeakSender trait. #518
• Implement Clone for WeakRecipient. #518
• Implement From<Recipient> for WeakRecipient. #518
• Implement From<Pin<Box<dyn ActorFuture>>> for ActorResponse. #509
• Implement PartialEq and Eq for WeakAddr. [#523]
• Implement PartialEq and Eq for WeakAddressSender. [#523]
• Implement From<Recipient> for WeakRecipient. #518

Changed

• Recipient::do_send() no longer has a return value. #441
• Updated tokio-util dependency to 0.7. #525
• Updated minimum supported Rust version to 1.54.

Removed

• Remove Resolver actor. #451

Added

• Add fut::try_future::ActorTryFuture. #419
• Add fut::try_future::ActorTryFutureExt trait with map_ok, map_err and and_then combinator. #419
• Add fut::future::ActorFutureExt::boxed_local #493
• Implemented MessageResponse for Vec<T> #501

Changed

• Make Context::new public. #491
• SinkWriter::write returns Result instead of Option. #499

Fixed

• Panics caused by instant cancellation of a spawned future. #484

Removed

• Remove fut::IntoActorFuture trait. #475
• Remove fut::future::WrapFuture's Output associated type. #475
• Remove fut::stream::WrapStream's Item associated type. #475
• Remove prelude::Future re-export from std. #482
• Remove fut::future::Either re-export. Support for the enum re-exported from futures_util enum still exists. #482
• Remove fut::future::FutureResult type alias. #482

Added

• Added fut::{ActorFutureExt, ActorStreamExt} traits for extension method for ActorFuture and ActorStream trait. This is aiming to have a similar traits set inline with futures crate. #474
• Added ActorStreamExt::collect method for collect an actor stream's items and output them as an actor future. #474
• Added ActorStreamExt::take_while method to take an actor stream's items based on the closure output. #474
• Added ActorStreamExt::skip_while method to skip an actor stream's items based on the closure output. #474
• Added fut::LocalBoxActorFuture type to keep inline with the futures::future::LocalBoxFuture type. #474

Changed

• Rework fut::future::ActorFuture trait. #465
• fut::future::{wrap_future, wrap_stream} would need type annotation for Actor type. #465
• dev::MessageResponse::handle method does not need generic type #472
• fut::{ok, err, result, FutureResult, Either} are changed to re-export of futures::future::{ready, Ready, Either} types. #474
• futures::future::{ok, err, ready, Ready, Either} types impls ActorFuture trait by default. #474

Removed

• Remove dev::ResponseChannel trait. #472

Changed

• Update actix-rt to v2.0.0. [#461]
• Feature resolver is no longer default. [#461]
• Rename derive feature to macros since it now includes derive *and- attribute macros. [#461]

Added

• Re-export actix_rt::main macro as actix::main. #448
• Added actix::fut::Either::{left, right}() variant constructors. #453

Changed

• The re-exported actix-derive macros are now conditionally included with the derive feature which is enabled by default but can be switched off to reduce dependencies. #424
• The where clause on Response::fut() was relaxed to no longer require T: Unpin, allowing a Response to be created with an async block #421
• Allow creating WeakRecipient from WeakAddr, similar to Recipient from Addr. #432
• Send SyncArbiter to current System's Arbiter and run it as future there. Enables nested SyncArbiters. #439
• Use generic type instead of associate type for EnvelopeProxy. #445
• SyncEnvelopeProxy and SyncContextEnvelope are no longer bound to an Actor. #445
• Rename actix::clock::{delay_for, delay_until, Delay} to {sleep, sleep_until, Sleep}. #443
• Remove all Unpin requirement from ActorStream. #443
• Update examples and tests according to the change of actix-rt. Arbiter::spawn and actix_rt::spawn now panic outside the context of actix::System. They must be called inside System::run, SystemRunner::run or SystemRunner::block_on. More information can be found here. #447
• actix::fut::Either's internal variants' representation has changed to struct fields. #453
• Replace pin_project with pin_project_lite #453
• Update crossbeam-channel to 0.5
• Update bytes to 1. #443
• Update tokio to 1. #443
• Update tokio-util tp 0.6. #443

Fixed

• Unified MessageResponse impl (combine separate Item/Error type, migrate to Item=Result). #446
• Fix error for build with --no-default-features flag, add sink feature for futures-util dependency. #427

Removed

• Remove unnecessary actix::clock::Duration re-export of std::time::Duration. #443

Changed

• SinkWrite::write calls now send all items correctly using an internal buffer. #384
• Add Sync bound for Box<dyn Sender> trait object that making Recipient a Send + Sync type. #403
• Update parking_lot to 0.11 #404
• Remove unnecessary PhantomData field from Request making it Send + Sync regardless if Request's type-argument is Send or Sync #407

Changed

• Update tokio-util dependency to 0.3, FramedWrite trait bound is changed. #365
• Only poll dropped ContextFut if event loop is running. #374
• Minimum Rust version is now 1.40 (to be able to use #[cfg(doctest)])

Fixed

• Fix ActorFuture::poll_next impl for StreamThen to not lose inner future when it's pending. #376

Added

• New AtomicResponse, a MessageResponse with exclusive poll over actor's reference. #357

Changed

• Require Pin for ResponseActFuture. #355

Fixed

• Fix MessageResponse implementation for ResponseFuture to always poll the spawned Future. #317

Added

• New method address on SyncContext [#341]
• Allow return of any T: 'static on ResponseActFuture. #310
• Allow return of any T: 'static on ResponseFuture. #343

Changed

• Feature http was removed. Actix support for http was moved solely to actix-http and actix-web crates. #324
• Make Pins safe #335 #346 #347
• Only implement ActorFuture for Box where ActorFuture is Unpin #348
• Upgrade trust-dns-proto to 0.19 #349
• Upgrade trust-dns-resolver to 0.19 #349

Fixed

• Fix ResolveFuture type signature.

Fixed

• Fix Resolve actor's panic

Added

• Added Context::connected() to check any addresses are alive
• Added fut::ready() future

Changed

• Migrate to std::future, tokio 0.2 and actix-rt 1.0.0 @bcmcmill #300
• Upgrade derive_more to 0.99.2
• Upgrade smallvec to 1.0.0

Fixed

• Added #[must_use] attribute to ActorFuture and ActorStream

Fixed

• Stop actor on async context drop

Changed

• Enable http feature by default

Added

• Added std::error::Error impl for SendError

Fixed

• Fixed concurrent system registry insert #248

Added

• Added std::error::Error impl for MailboxError

Changed

• Use trust-dns-resolver 0.11.0

• Add actix-http error support for MailboxError

Changes

• Edition 2018
• Replace System/Arbiter with actix_rt::System and actix_rt::Arbiter
• Add implementations for Message for Arc and Box
• System and arbiter registries available via from_registry() method.

Deleted

• Deleted signals actor. The functionality formerly provided by the signals actor can be achieved using the tokio-signal crate. See the chat example for how this can work.

• Introduced methods Sender::connected(), AddressSender::connected() and Recipient::connected() to check availability of alive actor.
• Added WeakAddr<A> to weak reference an actor

• Removed actix module from prelude. See rationale in #161

• Update crossbeam-channel to 0.3 and parking_lot to 0.7

• Impl Into<Recipient<M>> for Addr<A>

• Use trust-dns-resolver 0.10.0.
• Make System::stop_with_code public.

Added

• Introduce the clock module to allow overriding and mocking the system clock based on tokio_timer.
• System now has System::builder() which allows overriding the system clock with a custom instance. Arbiter::builder() can now also override the system clock. The default is to inherit from the system.
• New utility classes TimerFunc and IntervalFunc in the utils module.
• Implement failure::Fail for SendError.
• Implement Debug for multiple public types: AddressSender, Addr, Arbiter, Context, ContextParts, ContextFut, Response, ActorResponse, Mailbox, SystemRegistry, Supervisor, System, SystemRunner, SystemArbiter. #135

Changed

• No longer perform unnecessary clone of Addr in SystemRegistry::set.
• Set min trust-dns version

Fixed

• fix infinite loop in ContextFut::poll() caused by late cancel_future() #147

• Introduce method query to determine whether there is running actor in registry.
• Return back mocker module.

• Parked messages not getting processed #120

• Use actix-derive 0.3

• Arbiter now has Arbiter::builder() which allows opt-in of behavior to stop the actor system on uncaught panic in any arbiter thread. See #111 for examples.
• Allow to set custom system service actor via SystemRegistry::set() method.
• AsyncContext::run_interval does not fire callback immediately, instead it fires after specified duration.

• Context impl refactoring, fix potential UB
• Implemented Eq, PartialEq, and Hash for actix::Addr
• Implemented Eq, PartialEq, and Hash for actix::Recipient

• Update syn dependency to 2.

• Added actix::run() and actix::spawn() helper functions
• Use parking_lot 0.6
• Fixed potential memory unsafety

Changed

• Use tokio
• System and Arbiter refactored
• Arbiter::handle() is not available anymore. Use Arbiter::spawn() and Arbiter::spawn_fn() instead.
• StreamHandler trait refactored.
• Min rustc version - 1.26

• Stop sync actor if sender is dead.

• Fix index usage during iteration for future cancellation #67

• Fix polling of wrong wait future after completion

• Always complete actor lifecycle (i.e. Actor::started())

• Panic after cancelling stream future #58

• Allow to set timeout for Connect message #56

• Internal state is alive during stopping period.
• Do not send StopArbiter message to system arbiter during system shutdown #53

• Address/Recipient is generic over actor destination
• Make rules of actor stopping more strict
• Use bounded channels for actor communications
• Add dns resolver and tcp connector utility actor
• Add StreamHandler trait for stream handling
• Add Context::handle() method, currently running future handle
• Add actix::io helper types for AsyncWrite related types
• Drop FramedContext

• Refactor context implementation
• Refactor Supervisor type
• Allow to use Framed instances with normal Context

• Improve broker message performance.
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.75.

• Add Clone implementation for Box<Subscriber<M> + Send>
• Stop stream polling if context is waiting for future completion
• Upgraded address stops working after all references are dropped #38

• Fix at-least-once delivery guarantee for IssueAsync. #536

• Cleanup FramedActor error and close state handling.
• Do not exit early from framed polling

• Add support for actix v0.13.

• Cleanup actor stopping process
• Unify context implementation

• Remove StreamHandler requirements from add_message_stream()
• Fix items length check

• Simplify Handler trait (E type removed).
• Use associated type for handler response for Handler trait.
• Added framed drain method.
• Allow to replace framed object in framed context.
• Enable signal actor by default, make it compatible with windows.
• Added SyncContext::restart() method, which allow to restart sync actor.
• Changed behaviour of Address::call, if request get drop message cancels.

• Re-export actix_derive package
• Added conversion implementation From<Result<I, E>> for Response<A, M>
• Expose the Framed underneath FramedContext #29

• Fix memory leak when sending messages recursively to self #28
• Add convenience impl for boxed Subscriber objects. #27
• Add ActorStream::fold() method.
• Add helper combinator Stream::finish() method.

• SystemRegistry does not store created actor #21

• Disable signal feature by default

• Simplify ToEnvelope trait, do not generalize over Message type.
• ActorContext requires ToEnvelope trait.
• Added Subscriber::subscriber() -> Box<Subscriber>
• Simplify ActorContext trait, it does not need to know about Actor
• Cancel notify and run_later futures on context stop

• Added Either future
• Message has to provide ResponseType impl instead of Actor