0.8.0

🔈 Announcing Coerce 0.8.0

• Feature flags: "remote", "persistence", "metrics", "sharding", "api"
• ActorSystem memory usage improvements, now it is just a wrapper over an Arc<ActorSystemCore>, allowing for much cheaper cloning.
• RemoteActorSystem can now be cleanly shutdown
• Cluster node termination fixes and improvements, nodes will now emit a message to peers upon system termination and leaders should be re-allocated immediately, which will help improve cluster reliability as a whole
• Multiple persistence backends can now be configured based on the actor's type
• Redis persistence journal provider has been refactored and is now backed by its own actor
• New Kubernetes discovery provider, you can now automatically discover peers hosted in Kubernetes, based on a configurable pod-selection label
• Cluster sharding chat example application now uses protobuf for serialisation throughout
• Updated the cluster sharding chat example application with kubernetes deployment manifests (kustomize)
• Added specific unit test for cluster heartbeat / state consistency after losing the leader node
• Added unit test for shard rebalancing after losing the leader node and more
• Several actor persistence resilience improvements
• Actor describe functionality, ability to examine the actor hierarchy via Describe message or the HTTP API
• Ability to add tags to actors, which can be retrieved via the describe functionality
• Error propagation and handling improvements
• Dependency updates

So much more!

Full Changelog: 0.7.0...0.8.0