---
title: "What to do with your End Of Life Akka?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-to-do-with-your-end-of-life-akka--ad1eoouxh
source_url: https://softwaremill.com/what-to-do-with-your-end-of-life-akka
type: article
source: "SoftwareMill"
published: 2024-02-22T17:00:47.522Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:06:08.895Z
tags: ["java", "architecture", "scala", "lightbend", "akka"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# 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.

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