Reactor 3.6.0 is coming and going to be GA on November 14. This blogpost describes new features that are included in this upcoming release!

Virtual Threads support

Today, everyone talks about Java 21 and Project Loom. The Project Reactor team hears that and sees value in that project within our ecosystem. With this upcoming release, we introduce support for the VirtualThread implementation.

Why is it handy?

Let's consider the following code sample:

package io.projectreactor.samples;

import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

import reactor.core…