From the post:
Breaking news: OrientDB 1.7 is out! We made OrientDB faster than before and with new exciting features like Distributed Sharding, the support for Lucene indexes (Full-Text and GEO-Spatial), SSL connections, Parallel queries and more.
To download OrientDB 1.7 go to: http://www.orientechnologies.com/download/
What’s new?
Core
- New “minimumclusters” to auto-create X clusters per class
- New cluster strategy to pick the cluster. Available round-robin, default and balanced
- Added record locking via API
- Removed rw/locks on schema and index manager
- Cached most used users and roles in RAM (configurable)
…
See the full listing of new features at the announcement or better yet, download OrientDB 1.7 and try the new features out!