Apache Pekko 1.0.3 -M1 contains some experimental changes to make it possible for Pekko nodes to interact with Akka nodes (remote or cluster mode). The changes first appeared in the 1.0.3-M1 release but we would recommend that you use the full release.
Apache Pekko nodes use URLs like `pekko://host:port` while Akka uses `akka://host:port`. Both Akka and Pekko will by default ignore nodes that have the wrong URL scheme. Akka will not likely be changed to accept Pekko URLs but we are changing Pekko so that it can accept Akka URLs.
The changes are in PR765 and PR1112.
Apache Pekko 1.0.3-M1 is a milestone release and is only meant for testing. Do not attempt to use this Pekko release in production. Ideally, users who want to add Pekko nodes to an Akka cluster with the aim of replacing the Akka nodes with Pekko nodes, should try this milestone release Pekko Akka Compatibility support in a test cluster. We would really like to hear from users who do this to tell us how they get on.
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