--- title: What to do with your End Of Life Akka? | daily.dev description: In September 2022, Lightbend announced a license change for future Akka releases. The last Apache-licensed Akka version is 2.6.x. After the end of life of Akka... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-to-do-with-your-end-of-life-akka--ad1eoouxh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What to do with your End Of Life Akka? | daily.dev og:description: In September 2022, Lightbend announced a license change for future Akka releases. The last Apache-licensed Akka version is 2.6.x. After the end of life of Akka... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-to-do-with-your-end-of-life-akka--ad1eoouxh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/AD1eOOUXH.png og:image:alt: What to do with your End Of Life Akka? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What to do with your End Of Life Akka? **[SoftwareMill](https://daily.dev/sources/softwaremill)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary In September 2022, Lightbend announced a license change for future Akka releases. The last Apache-licensed Akka version is 2.6.x. After the end of life of Akka 2.6.x, there are options such as continuing with Lightbend releases, using Apache Pekko, or migrating to a different tech stack. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#scala](https://daily.dev/tags/scala), [#lightbend](https://daily.dev/tags/lightbend), [#akka](https://daily.dev/tags/akka) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-to-do-with-your-end-of-life-akka--ad1eoouxh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What to do with your End Of Life Akka?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-to-do-with-your-end-of-life-akka--ad1eoouxh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-to-do-with-your-end-of-life-akka--ad1eoouxh"},"datePublished":"2024-02-22T17:00:47.522Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:06:08.895Z","description":"In September 2022, Lightbend announced a license change for future Akka releases. The last Apache-licensed Akka version is 2.6.x. After the end of life of Akka...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/8929e8ffda199939b1c44f7f380255ca?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/8929e8ffda199939b1c44f7f380255ca?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"SoftwareMill","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"SoftwareMill","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/30827c94697f47fcbc88ff9b59fa226f","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/softwaremill"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-to-do-with-your-end-of-life-akka--ad1eoouxh","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"java,architecture,scala,lightbend,akka","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"SoftwareMill","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/softwaremill"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What to do with your End Of Life Akka?"}]} ```