Scala 2.11.7 is now available!

We are very pleased to announce the availability of Scala 2.11.7!

We would like to highlight the following changes:

   - Exhaustivity checking for pattern matching is now much snappier –
   thank you @gbasler! (SI-9181
   <https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-9181>)
   - Scala REPL now 200x more embeddable. You’re welcome, Apache Spark! (
   #4563 <https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/4563>, SI-7747
   <https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-7747>)
   - Scala also <3 INDYs – experiment with all our favorite new Java 8
   features as follows
   <https://github.com/scala/make-release-notes/blob/2.11.x/experimental-backend.md>
and
   get an exclusive sneak preview of 2.12.0-M2!
   - Oh, and the spec <http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/> is
   now much spiffier! Thanks, @soc!

Compared to 2.11.6, this release resolves 53 issues
<https://issues.scala-lang.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SI%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Fixed%20AND%20fixVersion%20in%20%28%22Scala%202.11.7%22%29%20ORDER%20BY%20component%20ASC%2C%20priority%20DESC>.
We merged 124 pull requests
<https://github.com/scala/scala/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+milestone%3A2.11.7>
(out
of 157). Before upgrading, please also check the known issues
<https://issues.scala-lang.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SI%20AND%20status%3Dopen%20AND%20affectedVersion%20%3D%20%22Scala%202.11.7%22%20and%20fixVersion%20%3E%3D%20%22Scala%202.11.7%22%20ORDER%20BY%20component%20ASC%2C%20priority%20DESC>
for
this release.

As usual for minor releases, Scala 2.11.7 is binary compatible with other
releases in the Scala 2.11 series.

The quarterly release schedule will continue for 2.11.x until the end of
this year, and a few more quarters into 2016.
Contributors

A big thank you to everyone who’s helped improve Scala by reporting bugs,
improving our documentation, spreading kindness in mailing lists and other
public fora, and submitting and reviewing pull requests! You are all
magnificent.

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges v2.11.6..v2.11.7, 36 people
contributed to this minor release: Lukas Rytz, Jason Zaugg, A. P. Marki,
Grzegorz Kossakowski, Adriaan Moors, Rex Kerr, Simon Ochsenreither, Antoine
Gourlay, Gérard Basler, Zhong Sheng, Kato Kazuyoshi, Michał Pociecha, Janek
Bogucki, vsalvis, Prashant Sharma, Daniel Dietrich, Kenji Yoshida,
YawarRaza7349, Simon Schäfer, Eugene Burmako, Guillaume Martres, Sean
Riggin, Christoph Neijenhuis, Szabolcs Berecz, Bruno Bieth, dumpstate,
esfandiar amirrahimi, nafg, swaldman, Alessandro Lacava, Geoffrey Knauth,
Jean-Rémi Desjardins, EECOLOR, Niko Vuokko, Cody Allen, RobertZK. Thank you!
Obtaining Scala

Scala releases are available through a variety of channels, including (but
not limited to):

   - Get started with the Hello Scala 2.11 template
   <https://typesafe.com/activator/template/hello-scala-2_11> in Typesafe
   Activator <https://typesafe.com/platform/getstarted>
   - Download a distribution from scala-lang.org
   <http://scala-lang.org/download/2.11.7.html>
   - Bump the scalaVersion setting in your SBT-based project
   - Obtain JARs via Maven Central
   <http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.scala-lang%22%20AND%20v%3A%222.11.7%22>

Scala 2.11 Notes

The release notes for Scala 2.11.1 <http://scala-lang.org/news/2.11.1> have
important information applicable to the whole 2.11 series, such as:

   - Details on new features, important changes and deprecations since
   Scala 2.10.
   - The specification of binary compatibility between minor releases.

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