v3.9.8

[Tochemey]

🚀 Highlights

• Grains and Actor activation/placement strategies in cluster mode
• Refactor the implementation of ActorRefs to return error to make it more predictive.
• Refresh tooling and dependencies upgrade.
• Add a miscellaneous package to support local end-to-end testing workflows when fixing bugs.

What’s Changed

✨ Features

• Add a miscellaneous package to support local end-to-end (e2e) testing workflows
  (#972 by @Tochemey)

⚡ Improvements & Refactors

• Return a clear error when listing actors across nodes fails, improving debuggability in distributed scenarios
  (#970 by @Tochemey)
• Rewrite the logic for round-robin and least-load strategies to make routing behavior more predictable and maintainable
  (#974 by @Tochemey)

📦 Dependency & CI Updates

• ⬆️ Bump actions/upload-artifact GitHub Action to v5 for more reliable artifact handling in CI
  (#969 by @renovate[bot])
• ⬆️ Update golangci/golangci-lint to v2.6.0 to pick up the latest linting rules and fixes
  (#971 by @renovate[bot])

⚠️ Notes

• No breaking changes are expected.
• If you rely on cross-node actor listing, you may now see explicit errors where silent failures previously occurred—check logs and error handling paths accordingly.

🔗 Pull Requests

• chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v5 by @renovate[bot] in chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v5 #969
• refactor: return an error when listing actors across nodes by @Tochemey in refactor: return an error when listing actors across nodes #970
• feat: ✨ miscellaneous package for local e2e by @Tochemey in feat: ✨ miscellaneous package for local e2e #972
• chore(deps): update dependency golangci/golangci-lint to v2.6.0 by @renovate[bot] in chore(deps): update dependency golangci/golangci-lint to v2.6.0 #971
• refactor: rewrite the logic round-robin and least-load strategies by @Tochemey in refactor: rewrite the logic round-robin and least-load strategies #974

Full Changelog: v3.9.7...v3.9.8

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This discussion was created from the release v3.9.8.