Lift Framework 3.1.0-M2

The Lift Committers are pleased to announce the release of Lift 3.1.0-M2 on April 7, 2017. This release continues our new release cadence of bimonthly milestone builds. These will lead up to the final 3.1.0 milestone at the start of June. 3.1.0-RC1 is currently targeted for June 15, and the final 3.1.0 release targeted for the end of June. After that we'll start the release cycle over for 3.2.0 for the latter part of the year.

This milestone build brings a small set of improvements:

• The MongoDB Record module now supports the MongoDB Async API calls. (#1829) Now, there are a handful of *Async methods on the MongoDB record implementation that will return Futures to the calling code, meaning you can now easily compose Mongo Record operations with other non-blocking code. Hat tip to @eltimn and @marekzebrowski for their work on this.
• @n4to4 was kind enough to fix some broken links in our readme.

This release is immediately available on Maven Central.

This was a pretty small milestone, but we were focusing on producing a stable milestone at a predictable schedule, and we successfully accomplished that goal. We've got a lot of good work queued up for M3, so be on the lookout for that.