Apache Cassandra 2.1.0-rc7 (Changes)
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I like the generated list of changes, but as dead text, it is of limited usefulness. This works better for me:
2.1.0-rc7
- Add frozen keyword and require UDT to be frozen (CASSANDRA-7857)
- Track added sstable size correctly (CASSANDRA-7239)
- (cqlsh) Fix case insensitivity (CASSANDRA-7834)
- Fix failure to stream ranges when moving (CASSANDRA-7836)
- Correctly remove tmplink files (CASSANDRA-7803)
- (cqlsh) Fix column name formatting for functions, CAS operations, and UDT field selections ()CASSANDRA-7806
- (cqlsh) Fix COPY FROM handling of null/empty primary key values (CASSANDRA-7792)
- Fix ordering of static cells (CASSANDRA-7763)
Merged from 2.0:
- Forbid re-adding dropped counter columns (CASSANDRA-7831)
- Fix CFMetaData#isThriftCompatible() for PK-only tables (CASSANDRA-7832)
- Always reject inequality on the partition key without token (CASSANDRA-7722)
- Always send Paxos commit to all replicas (CASSANDRA-7479)
- Don’t send schema change responses and events for no-op DDL statements (CASSANDRA-7600)
- (Hadoop) fix cluster initialisation for a split fetching (CASSANDRA-7774)
- Configure system.paxos with LeveledCompactionStrategy (CASSANDRA-7753)
- Fix ALTER clustering column type from DateType to TimestampType when using DESC clustering order (CASSANRDA-7797)
- Throw EOFException if we run out of chunks in compressed datafile (CASSANDRA-7664)
- Fix PRSI handling of CQL3 row markers for row cleanup (CASSANDRA-7787)
- Fix dropping collection when it’s the last regular column (CASSANDRA-7744)
- Properly reject operations on list index with conditions (CASSANDRA-7499)
- Make StreamReceiveTask thread safe and gc friendly (CASSANDRA-7795)
- Validate empty cell names from counter updates (CASSANDRA-7798)
Merged from 1.2:
- Don’t allow compacted sstables to be marked as compacting (CASSANDRA-7145)
- Track expired tombstones (CASSANDRA-7810)
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