Play 2.8.21

[mkurz]

The Play Team is happy to announce the release of Play 2.8.21 🥳

⚠️ Play 2.8 will reach its end of life on May 31st, 2024

More details on EOL dates, supported dependencies and how Play deals with Akka’s License change can be found here.
We recommend upgrading to Play 2.9 (built on Akka) or Play 3.0 (built on Pekko) as soon as possible:

• Play 3.0 Highlights and Migration Guide
• Play 2.9 Highlights and Migration Guide

📗 Noteworthy in this release

• [2.8.x] Fix missed ContextInitializer#configureByResource (backport #11910) by @tsuyoshizawa #11915 [2.8.x] Fix missed ContextInitializer#configureByResource (backport Fix missed ContextInitializer#configureByResource #11910) by @tsuyoshizawa
  Logback 1.4.9 and 1.3.9 broke their public APIs so we had to introduce a workaround so you can upgrade to those versions.
• [2.8.x] Better Scala 2.13.12 compatibility #12186 [2.8.x] Better Scala 2.13.12 compatibility by @mkurz
  If you want to use Scala 2.13.12 in your projects, this change should avoid some warnings and maybe even errors, depending on your configured compiler flags.
• [2.8.x] Netty 4.1.100 #12046 [2.8.x] Netty 4.1.100 by @mkurz
  We upgraded Netty to benefit from latest security fixes.

Besides that, following pull requests got merged for this release:

• [2.8.x] Upgrade typesafe config to 1.4.3 #12191 [2.8.x] Upgrade typesafe config to 1.4.3 by @mkurz
• [2.8.x] fix dead link in AccessingAnSQLDatabase.md (backport #12171) by @xuwei-k #12176 [2.8.x] fix dead link in AccessingAnSQLDatabase.md (backport fix dead link in AccessingAnSQLDatabase.md #12171) by @xuwei-k
• Add tag [2.8.x] for Steward's pull requests for 2.8.x branch #12135 Add tag [2.8.x] for Steward's pull requests for 2.8.x branch by @ihostage
• spring-core 5.2.25.RELEASE (was 5.2.24.RELEASE) #12113 spring-core 5.2.25.RELEASE (was 5.2.24.RELEASE) by @scala-steward
• sbt-scalafmt 2.5.2 (was 2.0.7) #12108 sbt-scalafmt 2.5.2 (was 2.0.7) by @scala-steward
• [2.8.x] Move scala steward config to .github + adjust config #12063 [2.8.x] Move scala steward config to .github + adjust config by @mkurz
• Display soft warning about EOL when starting sbt #11981 Display soft warning about EOL when starting sbt by @mkurz
• [2.8.x] Fix akka update guide #11884 [2.8.x] Fix akka update guide by @mkurz

For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.8.21 milestone.

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🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Finally, thanks to the community for their help with detailed bug reports, discussions about new features and pull request reviews. This project is only possible due to the help we had from amazing contributors.
Special thanks to all code contributors who helped with this particular release (they are listed below)!

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