The Play Team is happy to announce the release of Play 2.8.18.

📗 What is new?

This release includes a fix for #10590 to avoid StackOverflowErrors when sending multipart/form-data requests with many fields as payload. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• #11491 [2.8.x] Upgrade Akka, Netty, Spring, Joda-Time by @mkurz
• #11360 To refactor BodyPartParser of Multipart in order to avoid StackOverflowError easily by @yousuketto
• #11465 [2.8.x] Update MIME types (backport #11406) by @PromanSEW
• #11464 [2.8.x] Upgrade netty-reactive-streams by @mkurz
• #11459 [2.8.x] Latest scala sbt versions by @mkurz

For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.8.18 milestone.

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🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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Special thanks to all code contributors who helped with this particular release (they are listed below)!