Play 1.5.2 -- Release notes

Play 1.5.2 has been released of the master branch.

The changes in this release are listed in the Play 1.5.2 on Lighthouse and 1.5.2 on github including 27 resolved tickets.

What's new in Play 1.5.2

#1239: Feature/make play stop wait for java process to finish
#1242: Add support for navigating XML with namespaces.
#1250: dependencies upgrade
#1252: Update Play source for build compability with JDK9+
#1259: [#1849] restore checks in TransactionalJPATest that were accidentally deleted in PR 1246
#1260: [#1252] revert back method to static. Fix calls to deprecated '_' metō
#1263: upgrade hibernate to 5.3.x
#1266: sample upgrade for issue #1263
#1269: Add BigInteger binding

#1198: 1197 support non-static dependencies
#1204: allow adding multiple files to "play.plugins.descriptor"
#1212: Wrong request-body decoding for content-type "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
#1213: [#1212] Fix non-Latin characters decode in UrlEncodedParser
#1217: [play 1.5] documentation is missing
#1230: [#2170] Action context access from error templates
#1241: [#2086] Fix race in Promise.onRedeem() that called "callback" twice
#1245: fix(tests): issue #1200, added testing compatibility for jdk9+
#1246: [#1849] Exceptions from controllers are not detected in FunctionalTests
#1247: upgraded javassist to 3.23.1-GA to suppress warning with JDK9+
#1248: Additions for PR #1246
#1254: #1250 dependencies upgrade
#1255: fix(tests): issue #1200, added testing compatibility for jdk9+
#1256: [#1245] Fix public/protected testing with Javassist, by removing the workaround that was fixed in latest version of javassist
#1257: [#1239] make play stop wait for java process to finish
#1258: [#1849] Give tests more fine grained control over what exceptions they expect
#1270: Release of 1.5.2 ?
#1275: [#1270] doc(release): add documentation for play 1.5.2