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)
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