Changes since version 0.7.0:
* force GC to reclaim disk space on flush, if necessary (CASSANDRA-2404)
* move gossip heartbeat back to its own thread (CASSANDRA-2554)
* fix incorrect use of NBHM.size in ReadCallback that could cause
reads to time out even when responses were received (CASSAMDRA-2552)
* trigger read repair correctly for LOCAL_QUORUM reads (CASSANDRA-2556)
* correctly reject query with missing mandatory super columns and validate
super column name in Deletion (CASSANDRA-2571)
* refuse to apply migrations with older timestamps than the current
schema (CASSANDRA-2536)
* faster flushes and compaction from fixing excessively pessimistic
rebuffering in BRAF (CASSANDRA-2581)
* include indexes in snapshots (CASSANDRA-2596)
* improve ignoring of obsolete mutations in index maintenance (CASSANDRA-2401)
* recognize attempt to drop just the index while leaving the column
definition alone (CASSANDRA-2619)
* Don't allow {LOCAL|EACH}_QUORUM unless strategy is NTS (CASSANDRA-2627)
* Fix regression where bootstrapping a node with no schema fails
(CASSANDRA-2625)
* Allow removing LocationInfo sstables (CASSANDRA-2632)
* avoid attempting to replay mutations from dropped keyspaces (CASSANDRA-2631)
* avoid using cached position of a key when GT is requested (CASSANDRA-2633)
* fix counting bloom filter true positives (CASSANDRA-2637)
* initialize local ep state prior to gossip startup if needed (CASSANDRA-2638)
* fix empty Result with secondary index when limit=1 (CASSANDRA-2628)
* add quote-escaping via backslash to CLI (CASSANDRA-2623)
* fig pig example script (CASSANDRA-2487)
* fix dynamic snitch race in adding latencies (CASSANDRA-2618)
* Start/stop cassandra after more important services such as mdadm in
debian packaging (CASSANDRA-2481)
* improvements/fixes to PIG driver (CASSANDRA-1618, CASSANDRA-2387,
CASSANDRA-2465, CASSANDRA-2484)
* validate index names (CASSANDRA-1761)
* reduce contention on Table.flusherLock (CASSANDRA-1954)
* try harder to detect failures during streaming, cleaning up temporary
files more reliably (CASSANDRA-2088)
* shut down server for OOM on a Thrift thread (CASSANDRA-2269)
* fix tombstone handling in repair and sstable2json (CASSANDRA-2279)
* preserve version when streaming data from old sstables (CASSANDRA-2283)
* don't start repair if a neighboring node is marked as dead (CASSANDRA-2290)
* purge tombstones from row cache (CASSANDRA-2305)
* Avoid seeking when sstable2json exports the entire file (CASSANDRA-2318)
* clear Built flag in system table when dropping an index (CASSANDRA-2320)
* don't allow arbitrary argument for stress.java (CASSANDRA-2323)
* validate values for index predicates in get_indexed_slice (CASSANDRA-2328)
* queue secondary indexes for flush before the parent (CASSANDRA-2330)
* allow job configuration to set the CL used in Hadoop jobs (CASSANDRA-2331)
* add memtable_flush_queue_size defaulting to 4 (CASSANDRA-2333)
* Allow overriding of initial_token, storage_port and rpc_port from system
properties (CASSANDRA-2343)
* fix comparator used for non-indexed secondary expressions in index scan
(CASSANDRA-2347)
* ensure size calculation and write phase of large-row compaction use
the same threshold for TTL expiration (CASSANDRA-2349)
* fix race when iterating CFs during add/drop (CASSANDRA-2350)
* add ConsistencyLevel command to CLI (CASSANDRA-2354)
* allow negative numbers in the cli (CASSANDRA-2358)
* hard code serialVersionUID for tokens class (CASSANDRA-2361)
* fix potential infinite loop in ByteBufferUtil.inputStream (CASSANDRA-2365)
* fix encoding bugs in HintedHandoffManager, SystemTable when default
charset is not UTF8 (CASSANDRA-2367)
* avoids having removed node reappearing in Gossip (CASSANDRA-2371)
* fix incorrect truncation of long to int when reading columns via block
index (CASSANDRA-2376)
* fix NPE during stream session (CASSANDRA-2377)
* fix race condition that could leave orphaned data files when dropping CF or
KS (CASSANDRA-2381)
* fsync statistics component on write (CASSANDRA-2382)
* fix duplicate results from CFS.scan (CASSANDRA-2406)
* halve default memtable thresholds (CASSANDRA-2413)
* add IntegerType to CLI help (CASSANDRA-2414)
* avoid caching token-only decoratedkeys (CASSANDRA-2416)
* convert mmap assertion to if/throw so scrub can catch it (CASSANDRA-2417)
* don't overwrite gc log (CASSANDR-2418)
* invalidate row cache for streamed row to avoid inconsitencies
(CASSANDRA-2420)
* avoid copies in range/index scans (CASSANDRA-2425)
* make sure we don't wipe data during cleanup if the node has not join
the ring (CASSANDRA-2428)
* Try harder to close files after compaction (CASSANDRA-2431)
* re-set bootstrapped flag after move finishes (CASSANDRA-2435)
* display validation_class in CLI 'describe keyspace' (CASSANDRA-2442)
* make cleanup compactions cleanup the row cache (CASSANDRA-2451)
* add column fields validation to scrub (CASSANDRA-2460)
* use 64KB flush buffer instead of in_memory_compaction_limit (CASSANDRA-2463)
* fix backslash substitutions in CLI (CASSANDRA-2492)
* disable cache saving for system CFS (CASSANDRA-2502)
* fixes for verifying destination availability under hinted conditions
so UE can be thrown intead of timing out (CASSANDRA-2514)
* fix update of validation class in column metadata (CASSANDRA-2512)
* support LOCAL_QUORUM, EACH_QUORUM CLs outside of NTS (CASSANDRA-2516)
* count a row deletion as one operation towards memtable threshold
(CASSANDRA-2519)
* add nodetool join command (CASSANDRA-2160)
* fix secondary indexes on pre-existing or streamed data (CASSANDRA-2244)
* initialize endpoint in gossiper earlier (CASSANDRA-2228)
* add ability to write to Cassandra from Pig (CASSANDRA-1828)
* add rpc_[min|max]_threads (CASSANDRA-2176)
* add CL.TWO, CL.THREE (CASSANDRA-2013)
* avoid exporting an un-requested row in sstable2json, when exporting
a key that does not exist (CASSANDRA-2168)
* add incremental_backups option (CASSANDRA-1872)
* add configurable row limit to Pig loadfunc (CASSANDRA-2276)
* validate column values in batches as well as single-Column inserts
(CASSANDRA-2259)
* move sample schema from cassandra.yaml to schema-sample.txt,
a cli scripts (CASSANDRA-2007)
* avoid writing empty rows when scrubbing tombstoned rows (CASSANDRA-2296)
* fix assertion error in range and index scans for CL < ALL
(CASSANDRA-2282)
* fix commitlog replay when flush position refers to data that didn't
get synced before server died (CASSANDRA-2285)
* fix fd leak in sstable2json with non-mmap'd i/o (CASSANDRA-2304)
* reduce memory use during streaming of multiple sstables (CASSANDRA-2301)
* purge tombstoned rows from cache after GCGraceSeconds (CASSANDRA-2305)
* allow zero replicas in a NTS datacenter (CASSANDRA-1924)
* make range queries respect snitch for local replicas (CASSANDRA-2286)
* fix HH delivery when column index is larger than 2GB (CASSANDRA-2297)
* make 2ary indexes use parent CF flush thresholds during initial build
(CASSANDRA-2294)
* update memtable_throughput to be a long (CASSANDRA-2158)
* Keep endpoint state until aVeryLongTime (CASSANDRA-2115)
* lower-latency read repair (CASSANDRA-2069)
* add hinted_handoff_throttle_delay_in_ms option (CASSANDRA-2161)
* fixes for cache save/load (CASSANDRA-2172, -2174)
* Handle whole-row deletions in CFOutputFormat (CASSANDRA-2014)
* Make memtable_flush_writers flush in parallel (CASSANDRA-2178)
* Add compaction_preheat_key_cache option (CASSANDRA-2175)
* refactor stress.py to have only one copy of the format string
used for creating row keys (CASSANDRA-2108)
* validate index names for \w+ (CASSANDRA-2196)
* Fix Cassandra cli to respect timeout if schema does not settle
(CASSANDRA-2187)
* fix for compaction and cleanup writing old-format data into new-version
sstable (CASSANDRA-2211, -2216)
* add nodetool scrub (CASSANDRA-2217, -2240)
* fix sstable2json large-row pagination (CASSANDRA-2188)
* fix EOFing on requests for the last bytes in a file (CASSANDRA-2213)
* fix BufferedRandomAccessFile bugs (CASSANDRA-2218, -2241)
* check for memtable flush_after_mins exceeded every 10s (CASSANDRA-2183)
* fix cache saving on Windows (CASSANDRA-2207)
* add validateSchemaAgreement call + synchronization to schema
modification operations (CASSANDRA-2222)
* fix for reversed slice queries on large rows (CASSANDRA-2212)
* fat clients were writing local data (CASSANDRA-2223)
* turn off string interning in json2sstable (CASSANDRA-2189)
* set DEFAULT_MEMTABLE_LIFETIME_IN_MINS to 24h
* improve detection and cleanup of partially-written sstables
(CASSANDRA-2206)
* fix supercolumn de/serialization when subcolumn comparator is different
from supercolumn's (CASSANDRA-2104)
* fix starting up on Windows when CASSANDRA_HOME contains whitespace
(CASSANDRA-2237)
* add [get|set][row|key]cacheSavePeriod to JMX (CASSANDRA-2100)
* fix Hadoop ColumnFamilyOutputFormat dropping of mutations
when batch fills up (CASSANDRA-2255)
* move file deletions off of scheduledtasks executor (CASSANDRA-2253)
* copy DecoratedKey.key when inserting into caches to avoid retaining
a reference to the underlying buffer (CASSANDRA-2102)
* format subcolumn names with subcomparator (CASSANDRA-2136)
* fix column bloom filter deserialization (CASSANDRA-2165)
* refactor MessageDigest creation code. (CASSANDRA-2107)
* buffer network stack to avoid inefficient small TCP messages while avoiding
the nagle/delayed ack problem (CASSANDRA-1896)
* check log4j configuration for changes every 10s (CASSANDRA-1525, 1907)
* more-efficient cross-DC replication (CASSANDRA-1530, -2051, -2138)
* avoid polluting page cache with commitlog or sstable writes
and seq scan operations (CASSANDRA-1470)
* add RMI authentication options to nodetool (CASSANDRA-1921)
* make snitches configurable at runtime (CASSANDRA-1374)
* retry hadoop split requests on connection failure (CASSANDRA-1927)
* implement describeOwnership for BOP, COPP (CASSANDRA-1928)
* make read repair behave as expected for ConsistencyLevel > ONE
(CASSANDRA-982, 2038)
* distributed test harness (CASSANDRA-1859, 1964)
* reduce flush lock contention (CASSANDRA-1930)
* optimize supercolumn deserialization (CASSANDRA-1891)
* fix CFMetaData.apply to only compare objects of the same class
(CASSANDRA-1962)
* allow specifying specific SSTables to compact from JMX (CASSANDRA-1963)
* fix race condition in MessagingService.targets (CASSANDRA-1959, 2094, 2081)
* refuse to open sstables from a future version (CASSANDRA-1935)
* zero-copy reads (CASSANDRA-1714)
* fix copy bounds for word Text in wordcount demo (CASSANDRA-1993)
* fixes for contrib/javautils (CASSANDRA-1979)
* check more frequently for memtable expiration (CASSANDRA-2000)
* fix writing SSTable column count statistics (CASSANDRA-1976)
* fix streaming of multiple CFs during bootstrap (CASSANDRA-1992)
* explicitly set JVM GC new generation size with -Xmn (CASSANDRA-1968)
* add short options for CLI flags (CASSANDRA-1565)
* make keyspace argument to "describe keyspace" in CLI optional
when authenticated to keyspace already (CASSANDRA-2029)
* added option to specify -Dcassandra.join_ring=false on startup
to allow "warm spare" nodes or performing JMX maintenance before
joining the ring (CASSANDRA-526)
* log migrations at INFO (CASSANDRA-2028)
* add CLI verbose option in file mode (CASSANDRA-2030)
* add single-line "--" comments to CLI (CASSANDRA-2032)
* message serialization tests (CASSANDRA-1923)
* switch from ivy to maven-ant-tasks (CASSANDRA-2017)
* CLI attempts to block for new schema to propagate (CASSANDRA-2044)
* fix potential overflow in nodetool cfstats (CASSANDRA-2057)
* add JVM shutdownhook to sync commitlog (CASSANDRA-1919)
* allow nodes to be up without being part of normal traffic (CASSANDRA-1951)
* fix CLI "show keyspaces" with null options on NTS (CASSANDRA-2049)
* fix possible ByteBuffer race conditions (CASSANDRA-2066)
* reduce garbage generated by MessagingService to prevent load spikes
(CASSANDRA-2058)
* fix math in RandomPartitioner.describeOwnership (CASSANDRA-2071)
* fix deletion of sstable non-data components (CASSANDRA-2059)
* avoid blocking gossip while deleting handoff hints (CASSANDRA-2073)
* ignore messages from newer versions, keep track of nodes in gossip
regardless of version (CASSANDRA-1970)
* cache writing moved to CompactionManager to reduce i/o contention and
updated to use non-cache-polluting writes (CASSANDRA-2053)
* page through large rows when exporting to JSON (CASSANDRA-2041)
* add flush_largest_memtables_at and reduce_cache_sizes_at options
(CASSANDRA-2142)
* add cli 'describe cluster' command (CASSANDRA-2127)
* add cli support for setting username/password at 'connect' command
(CASSANDRA-2111)
* add -D option to Stress.java to allow reading hosts from a file
(CASSANDRA-2149)
* bound hints CF throughput between 32M and 256M (CASSANDRA-2148)
* continue starting when invalid saved cache entries are encountered
(CASSANDRA-2076)
* add max_hint_window_in_ms option (CASSANDRA-1459)
* handle replica unavailability in index scan (CASSANDRA-1755)
* fix service initialization order deadlock (CASSANDRA-1756)
* multi-line cli commands (CASSANDRA-1742)
* fix race between snapshot and compaction (CASSANDRA-1736)
* add listEndpointsPendingHints, deleteHintsForEndpoint JMX methods
(CASSANDRA-1551)
This version brings back the ability to create new tables.
Changes since 0.7.0beta2:
* add strategy options to describe_keyspace output (CASSANDRA-1560)
* log warning when using randomly generated token (CASSANDRA-1552)
* re-organize JMX into .db, .net, .internal, .request (CASSANDRA-1217)
llow nodes to change IPs between restarts (CASSANDRA-1518)
* remember ring state between restarts by default (CASSANDRA-1518)
* flush index built flag so we can read it before log replay (CASSANDRA-1541)
* lock row cache updates to prevent race condition (CASSANDRA-1293)
* remove assertion causing rare (and harmless) error messages in
commitlog (CASSANDRA-1330)
* fix moving nodes with no keyspaces defined (CASSANDRA-1574)
* fix unbootstrap when no data is present in a transfer range (CASSANDRA-1573)
* take advantage of AVRO-495 to simplify our avro IDL (CASSANDRA-1436)
* extend authorization hierarchy to column family (CASSANDRA-1554)
* deletion support in secondary indexes (CASSANDRA-1571)
* meaningful error message for invalid replication strategy class
(CASSANDRA-1566)
* allow keyspace creation with RF > N (CASSANDRA-1428)
* improve cli error handling (CASSANDRA-1580)
* add cache save/load ability (CASSANDRA-1417, 1606, 1647)
* add StorageService.getDrainProgress (CASSANDRA-1588)
* Disallow bootstrap to an in-use token (CASSANDRA-1561)
* Allow dynamic secondary index creation and destruction (CASSANDRA-1532)
* log auto-guessed memtable thresholds (CASSANDRA-1595)
* add ColumnDef support to cli (CASSANDRA-1583)
* reduce index sample time by 75% (CASSANDRA-1572)
* add cli support for column, strategy metadata (CASSANDRA-1578, 1612)
* add cli support for schema modification (CASSANDRA-1584)
* delete temp files on failed compactions (CASSANDRA-1596)
* avoid blocking for dead nodes during removetoken (CASSANDRA-1605)
* remove ConsistencyLevel.ZERO (CASSANDRA-1607)
* expose in-progress compaction type in jmx (CASSANDRA-1586)
* removed IClock & related classes from internals (CASSANDRA-1502)
* fix removing tokens from SystemTable on decommission and removetoken
(CASSANDRA-1609)
* include CF metadata in cli 'show keyspaces' (CASSANDRA-1613)
* switch from Properties to HashMap in PropertyFileSnitch to
avoid synchronization bottleneck (CASSANDRA-1481)
* PropertyFileSnitch configuration file renamed to
cassandra-topology.properties
* add cli support for get_range_slices (CASSANDRA-1088, CASSANDRA-1619)
* Make memtable flush thresholds per-CF instead of global
(CASSANDRA-1007, 1637)
* add cli support for binary data without CfDef hints (CASSANDRA-1603)
* fix building SSTable statistics post-stream (CASSANDRA-1620)
* fix potential infinite loop in 2ary index queries (CASSANDRA-1623)
* allow creating NTS keyspaces with no replicas configured (CASSANDRA-1626)
* add jmx histogram of sstables accessed per read (CASSANDRA-1624)
* remove system_rename_column_family and system_rename_keyspace from the
client API until races can be fixed (CASSANDRA-1630, CASSANDRA-1585)
* add cli sanity tests (CASSANDRA-1582)
* update GC settings in cassandra.bat (CASSANDRA-1636)
* cli support for index queries (CASSANDRA-1635)
* cli support for updating schema memtable settings (CASSANDRA-1634)
* cli --file option (CASSANDRA-1616)
* reduce automatically chosen memtable sizes by 50% (CASSANDRA-1641)
* move endpoint cache from snitch to strategy (CASSANDRA-1643)
* fix commitlog recovery deleting the newly-created segment as well as
the old ones (CASSANDRA-1644)
* upgrade to Thrift 0.5 (CASSANDRA-1367)
* renamed CL.DCQUORUM to LOCAL_QUORUM and DCQUORUMSYNC to EACH_QUORUM
* cli truncate support (CASSANDRA-1653)
* update GC settings in cassandra.bat (CASSANDRA-1636)
* avoid logging when a node's ip/token is gossipped back to it (CASSANDRA-1666)
Changes since 0.6.2:
* always use UTF-8 for hint keys (CASSANDRA-1439)
* remove cassandra.yaml dependency from Hadoop and Pig (CASSADRA-1322)
* expose CfDef metadata in describe_keyspaces (CASSANDRA-1633)
* restore use of mmap_index_only option (CASSANDRA-1241)
* dropping a keyspace with no column families generated an error
(CASSANDRA-1378)
* rename RackAwareStrategy to OldNetworkTopologyStrategy, RackUnawareStrategy
to SimpleStrategy, DatacenterShardStrategy to NetworkTopologyStrategy,
AbstractRackAwareSnitch to AbstractNetworkTopologySnitch (CASSANDRA-1392)
* merge StorageProxy.mutate, mutateBlocking (CASSANDRA-1396)
* faster UUIDType, LongType comparisons (CASSANDRA-1386, 1393)
* fix setting read_repair_chance from CLI addColumnFamily (CASSANDRA-1399)
* fix updates to indexed columns (CASSANDRA-1373)
* fix race condition leaving to FileNotFoundException (CASSANDRA-1382)
* fix sharded lock hash on index write path (CASSANDRA-1402)
* add support for GT/E, LT/E in subordinate index clauses (CASSANDRA-1401)
* cfId counter got out of sync when CFs were added (CASSANDRA-1403)
* less chatty schema updates (CASSANDRA-1389)
* rename column family mbeans. 'type' will now include either
'IndexColumnFamilies' or 'ColumnFamilies' depending on the CFS type.
(CASSANDRA-1385)
* disallow invalid keyspace and column family names. This includes name that
matches a '^\w+' regex. (CASSANDRA-1377)
* use JNA, if present, to take snapshots (CASSANDRA-1371)
* truncate hints if starting 0.7 for the first time (CASSANDRA-1414)
* fix FD leak in single-row slicepredicate queries (CASSANDRA-1416)
* allow index expressions against columns that are not part of the
SlicePredicate (CASSANDRA-1410)
* config-converter properly handles snitches and framed support
(CASSANDRA-1420)
* remove keyspace argument from multiget_count (CASSANDRA-1422)
* allow specifying cassandra.yaml location as (local or remote) URL
(CASSANDRA-1126)
* fix using DynamicEndpointSnitch with NetworkTopologyStrategy
(CASSANDRA-1429)
* Add CfDef.default_validation_class (CASSANDRA-891)
* fix EstimatedHistogram.max (CASSANDRA-1413)
* handle zero-length (or missing) rows during HH paging (CASSANDRA-1432)
* include secondary indexes during schema migrations (CASSANDRA-1406)
* fix commitlog header race during schema change (CASSANDRA-1435)
* fix ColumnFamilyStoreMBeanIterator to use new type name (CASSANDRA-1433)
* correct filename generated by xml->yaml converter (CASSANDRA-1419)
* add CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 and UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly
to default JVM options
* decrease jvm heap for cassandra-cli (CASSANDRA-1446)
* ability to modify keyspaces and column family definitions on a live cluster
(CASSANDRA-1285)
* support for Hadoop Streaming [non-jvm map/reduce via stdin/out]
(CASSANDRA-1368)
* Move persistent sstable stats from the system table to an sstable component
(CASSANDRA-1430)
* remove failed bootstrap attempt from pending ranges when gossip times
it out after 1h (CASSANDRA-1463)
* eager-create tcp connections to other cluster members (CASSANDRA-1465)
* enumerate stages and derive stage from message type instead of
transmitting separately (CASSANDRA-1465)
* apply reversed flag during collation from different data sources
(CASSANDRA-1450)
* make failure to remove comitlog segment non-fatal (CASSANDRA-1348)
* correct ordering of drain operations so CL.recover is no longer
necessary (CASSANDRA-1408)
* removed keyspace from describe_splits method (CASSANDRA-1425)
* rename check_schema_agreement to describe_schema_versions
(CASSANDRA-1478)
* fix QUORUM calculation for RF > 3 (CASSANDRA-1487)
* remove tombstones during non-major compactions when bloom filter
verifies that row does not exist in other sstables (CASSANDRA-1074)
* nodes that coordinated a loadbalance in the past could not be seen by
newly added nodes (CASSANDRA-1467)
* exposed endpoint states (gossip details) via jmx (CASSANDRA-1467)
* ensure that compacted sstables are not included when new readers are
instantiated (CASSANDRA-1477)
* by default, calculate heap size and memtable thresholds at runtime (CASSANDRA-1469)
* fix races dealing with adding/dropping keyspaces and column families in
rapid succession (CASSANDRA-1477)
* clean up of Streaming system (CASSANDRA-1503, 1504, 1506)
* add options to configure Thrift socket keepalive and buffer sizes (CASSANDRA-1426)
* make contrib CassandraServiceDataCleaner recursive (CASSANDRA-1509)
* min, max compaction threshold are configurable and persistent
per-ColumnFamily (CASSANDRA-1468)
* fix replaying the last mutation in a commitlog unnecessarily
(CASSANDRA-1512)
* invoke getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler from DTPE with the original
exception rather than the ExecutionException wrapper (CASSANDRA-1226)
* remove Clock from the Thrift (and Avro) API (CASSANDRA-1501)
* Close intra-node sockets when connection is broken (CASSANDRA-1528)
* RPM packaging spec file (CASSANDRA-786)
* weighted request scheduler (CASSANDRA-1485)
* treat expired columns as deleted (CASSANDRA-1539)
* make IndexInterval configurable (CASSANDRA-1488)
* add describe_snitch to Thrift API (CASSANDRA-1490)
* MD5 authenticator compares plain text submitted password with MD5'd
saved property, instead of vice versa (CASSANDRA-1447)
* JMX MessagingService pending and completed counts (CASSANDRA-1533)
* fix race condition processing repair responses (CASSANDRA-1511)
* make repair blocking (CASSANDRA-1511)
* create EndpointSnitchInfo and MBean to expose rack and DC (CASSANDRA-1491)
* added option to contrib/word_count to output results back to Cassandra
(CASSANDRA-1342)
* rewrite Hadoop ColumnFamilyRecordWriter to pool connections, retry to
multiple Cassandra nodes, and smooth impact on the Cassandra cluster
by using smaller batch sizes (CASSANDRA-1434)
* fix setting gc_grace_seconds via CLI (CASSANDRA-1549)
* support TTL'd index values (CASSANDRA-1536)
* make removetoken work like decommission (CASSANDRA-1216)
* make cli comparator-aware and improve quote rules (CASSANDRA-1523,-1524)
* sstable versioning (CASSANDRA-389)
* switched to slf4j logging (CASSANDRA-625)
* add (optional) expiration time for column (CASSANDRA-699)
* access levels for authentication/authorization (CASSANDRA-900)
* add ReadRepairChance to CF definition (CASSANDRA-930)
* fix heisenbug in system tests, especially common on OS X (CASSANDRA-944)
* convert to byte[] keys internally and all public APIs (CASSANDRA-767)
* ability to alter schema definitions on a live cluster (CASSANDRA-44)
* renamed configuration file to cassandra.xml, and log4j.properties to
log4j-server.properties, which must now be loaded from
the classpath (which is how our scripts in bin/ have always done it)
(CASSANDRA-971)
* change get_count to require a SlicePredicate. create multi_get_count
(CASSANDRA-744)
* re-organized endpointsnitch implementations and added SimpleSnitch
(CASSANDRA-994)
* Added preload_row_cache option (CASSANDRA-946)
* add CRC to commitlog header (CASSANDRA-999)
* removed deprecated batch_insert and get_range_slice methods (CASSANDRA-1065)
* add truncate thrift method (CASSANDRA-531)
* http mini-interface using mx4j (CASSANDRA-1068)
* optimize away copy of sliced row on memtable read path (CASSANDRA-1046)
* replace constant-size 2GB mmaped segments and special casing for index
entries spanning segment boundaries, with SegmentedFile that computes
segments that always contain entire entries/rows (CASSANDRA-1117)
* avoid reading large rows into memory during compaction (CASSANDRA-16)
* added hadoop OutputFormat (CASSANDRA-1101)
* efficient Streaming (no more anticompaction) (CASSANDRA-579)
* split commitlog header into separate file and add size checksum to
mutations (CASSANDRA-1179)
* avoid allocating a new byte[] for each mutation on replay (CASSANDRA-1219)
* revise HH schema to be per-endpoint (CASSANDRA-1142)
* add joining/leaving status to nodetool ring (CASSANDRA-1115)
* allow multiple repair sessions per node (CASSANDRA-1190)
* optimize away MessagingService for local range queries (CASSANDRA-1261)
* make framed transport the default so malformed requests can't OOM the
server (CASSANDRA-475)
* significantly faster reads from row cache (CASSANDRA-1267)
* take advantage of row cache during range queries (CASSANDRA-1302)
* make GCGraceSeconds a per-ColumnFamily value (CASSANDRA-1276)
* keep persistent row size and column count statistics (CASSANDRA-1155)
* add IntegerType (CASSANDRA-1282)
* page within a single row during hinted handoff (CASSANDRA-1327)
* push DatacenterShardStrategy configuration into keyspace definition,
eliminating datacenter.properties. (CASSANDRA-1066)
* optimize forward slices starting with '' and single-index-block name
queries by skipping the column index (CASSANDRA-1338)
* streaming refactor (CASSANDRA-1189)
* faster comparison for UUID types (CASSANDRA-1043)
* secondary index support (CASSANDRA-749 and subtasks)
* fix key ordering in range query results with RandomPartitioner
and ConsistencyLevel > ONE (CASSANDRA-1145)
* fix for range query starting with the wrong token range (CASSANDRA-1042)
* page within a single row during hinted handoff (CASSANDRA-1327)
* fix compilation on non-sun JDKs (CASSANDRA-1061)
* remove String.trim() call on row keys in batch mutations (CASSANDRA-1235)
* Log summary of dropped messages instead of spamming log (CASSANDRA-1284)
* add dynamic endpoint snitch (CASSANDRA-981)
* fix streaming for keyspaces with hyphens in their name (CASSANDRA-1377)
* fix errors in hard-coded bloom filter optKPerBucket by computing it
algorithmically (CASSANDRA-1220
* remove message deserialization stage, and uncap read/write stages
so slow reads/writes don't block gossip processing (CASSANDRA-1358)
* add jmx port configuration to Debian package (CASSANDRA-1202)
* use mlockall via JNA, if present, to prevent Linux from swapping
out parts of the JVM (CASSANDRA-1214)
* avoid queuing multiple hint deliveries for the same endpoint
(CASSANDRA-1229)
* better performance for and stricter checking of UTF8 column names
(CASSANDRA-1232)
* extend option to lower compaction priority to hinted handoff
as well (CASSANDRA-1260)
* log errors in gossip instead of re-throwing (CASSANDRA-1289)
* avoid aborting commitlog replay prematurely if a flushed-but-
not-removed commitlog segment is encountered (CASSANDRA-1297)
* fix duplicate rows being read during mapreduce (CASSANDRA-1142)
* failure detection wasn't closing command sockets (CASSANDRA-1221)
* cassandra-cli.bat works on windows (CASSANDRA-1236)
* pre-emptively drop requests that cannot be processed within RPCTimeout
(CASSANDRA-685)
* add ack to Binary write verb and update CassandraBulkLoader
to wait for acks for each row (CASSANDRA-1093)
* added describe_partitioner Thrift method (CASSANDRA-1047)
* Hadoop jobs no longer require the Cassandra storage-conf.xml
(CASSANDRA-1280, CASSANDRA-1047)
* log thread pool stats when GC is excessive (CASSANDRA-1275)
* remove gossip message size limit (CASSANDRA-1138)
* parallelize local and remote reads during multiget, and respect snitch
when determining whether to do local read for CL.ONE (CASSANDRA-1317)
* fix read repair to use requested consistency level on digest mismatch,
rather than assuming QUORUM (CASSANDRA-1316)
* process digest mismatch re-reads in parallel (CASSANDRA-1323)
* switch hints CF comparator to BytesType (CASSANDRA-1274)
* retry to make streaming connections up to 8 times. (CASSANDRA-1019)
* reject describe_ring() calls on invalid keyspaces (CASSANDRA-1111)
* fix cache size calculation for size of 100% (CASSANDRA-1129)
* fix cache capacity only being recalculated once (CASSANDRA-1129)
* remove hourly scan of all hints on the off chance that the gossiper
missed a status change; instead, expose deliverHintsToEndpoint to JMX
so it can be done manually, if necessary (CASSANDRA-1141)
* don't reject reads at CL.ALL (CASSANDRA-1152)
* reject deletions to supercolumns in CFs containing only standard
columns (CASSANDRA-1139)
* avoid preserving login information after client disconnects
(CASSANDRA-1057)
* prefer sun jdk to openjdk in debian init script (CASSANDRA-1174)
* detect partioner config changes between restarts and fail fast
(CASSANDRA-1146)
* use generation time to resolve node token reassignment disagreements
(CASSANDRA-1118)
* restructure the startup ordering of Gossiper and MessageService to avoid
timing anomalies (CASSANDRA-1160)
* detect incomplete commit log hearders (CASSANDRA-1119)
* force anti-entropy service to stream files on the stream stage to avoid
sending streams out of order (CASSANDRA-1169)
* remove inactive stream managers after AES streams files (CASSANDRA-1169)
* allow removing entire row through batch_mutate Deletion (CASSANDRA-1027)
* add JMX metrics for row-level bloom filter false positives (CASSANDRA-1212)
* added a redhat init script to contrib (CASSANDRA-1201)
* use midpoint when bootstrapping a new machine into range with not
much data yet instead of random token (CASSANDRA-1112)
* kill server on OOM in executor stage as well as Thrift (CASSANDRA-1226)
* remove opportunistic repairs, when two machines with overlapping replica
responsibilities happen to finish major compactions of the same CF near
the same time. repairs are now fully manual (CASSANDRA-1190)
* add ability to lower compaction priority (default is no change from 0.6.2)
(CASSANDRA-1181)
Changes since 0.6.1:
* fix contrib/word_count build. (CASSANDRA-992)
* split CommitLogExecutorService into BatchCommitLogExecutorService and
PeriodicCommitLogExecutorService (CASSANDRA-1014)
* add latency histograms to CFSMBean (CASSANDRA-1024)
* make resolving timestamp ties deterministic by using value bytes
as a tiebreaker (CASSANDRA-1039)
* Add option to turn off Hinted Handoff (CASSANDRA-894)
* fix windows startup (CASSANDRA-948)
* make concurrent_reads, concurrent_writes configurable at runtime via JMX
(CASSANDRA-1060)
* disable GCInspector on non-Sun JVMs (CASSANDRA-1061)
* fix tombstone handling in sstable rows with no other data (CASSANDRA-1063)
* fix size of row in spanned index entries (CASSANDRA-1056)
* install json2sstable, sstable2json, and sstablekeys to Debian package
* StreamingService.StreamDestinations wouldn't empty itself after streaming
finished (CASSANDRA-1076)
* added Collections.shuffle(splits) before returning the splits in
ColumnFamilyInputFormat (CASSANDRA-1096)
* do not recalculate cache capacity post-compaction if it's been manually
modified (CASSANDRA-1079)
* better defaults for flush sorter + writer executor queue sizes
(CASSANDRA-1100)
* windows scripts for SSTableImport/Export (CASSANDRA-1051)
* windows script for nodetool (CASSANDRA-1113)
* expose PhiConvictThreshold (CASSANDRA-1053)
* make repair of RF==1 a no-op (CASSANDRA-1090)
* improve default JVM GC options (CASSANDRA-1014)
* fix SlicePredicate serialization inside Hadoop jobs (CASSANDRA-1049)
Cassandra is a widely deployed distributed structured database system.
Like Dynamo, Cassandra is eventually consistent. Like BigTable, Cassandra
provides a ColumnFamily-based data model richer than typical key/value
systems.
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