# Release Notes (2.0.x)

## 2.0.0-M1

Release notes for Apache Pekko gRPC 2.0.0-M1. See [GitHub Milestone for 2.0.0-M1](https://github.com/apache/pekko-grpc/milestone/8?closed=1) for a fuller list of changes.

This is a milestone release and is aimed at testing this new major version
by early adopters. This is experimental. This release should not be used in production.

### Main Changes

* Pekko 2.0.0-M1 is the new minimum Pekko version
* Java 17 is the new minimum JRE version
* Scala 2.12 support dropped
* A lot of deprecated code removed
* grpc-java 1.78.0
