NoSQL Releases and Announcements
Catching up after almost two weeks offline is no easy task, but I hope I’ll not miss any important events, releases, or posts. But if I do, please email me.
Cassandra 1.0.9: Maintenance Release
The complete change notes for Cassandra 1.0.9 are here:
- improve index sampling performance (CASSANDRA-4023)
- always compact away deleted hints immediately after handoff (CASSANDRA-3955)
- delete hints from dropped ColumnFamilies on handoff instead of erroring out (CASSANDRA-3975)
- add CompositeType ref to the CLI doc for create/update column family (CASSANDRA-3980)
- Avoid NPE during repair when a keyspace has no CFs (CASSANDRA-3988)
- Fix division-by-zero error on get_slice (CASSANDRA-4000)
- don’t change manifest level for cleanup, scrub, and upgradesstables operations under LeveledCompactionStrategy (CASSANDRA-3989, 4112)
- fix race leading to super columns assertion failure (CASSANDRA-3957)
- ensure that directory is selected for compaction for user-defined tasks and upgradesstables (CASSANDRA-3985)
- allow custom types in CLI’s assume command (CASSANDRA-4081)
- fix totalBytes count for parallel compactions (CASSANDRA-3758)
- fix intermittent NPE in get_slice (CASSANDRA-4095)
- remove unnecessary asserts in native code interfaces (CASSANDRA-4096)
- Fix EC2 snitch incorrectly reporting region (CASSANDRA-4026)
- Shut down thrift during decommission (CASSANDRA-4086)
-
Merged from 0.8: Fix ConcurrentModificationException in gossiper (CASSANDRA-4019)
-
Pig
- support Counter ColumnFamilies (CASSANDRA-3973)
- Composite column support (CASSANDRA-3684)
-
CQL
- fix NPE on invalid CQL delete command (CASSANDRA-3755)
- Validate blank keys in CQL to avoid assertion errors (CASSANDRA-3612)
Apache Hadoop User Impersonation vulnerability
This vulnerability discovered by Cloudera’s Aaron T. Myers affects Hadoop’s versions 0.20.203.0, 0.20.204.0, 0.20.205.0, 1.0.0 to 1.0.1, and 0.23.0 to 0.23.1 where Kerberos is enabled. Complete details available here.
CouchDB 1.2.0
This is the first important release after the start of the year CouchDB hubbub with Damien Katz and Couchbase. The new version is a major release in itself deserving its own post: CouchDB 1.2.0: Performance, Security, API, Core and Replication Improvements.
Riak 1.1.2: Stabilization release
Just a maintenance release in the Riak 1.1 series. Complete release notes here.
Original title and link: NoSQL Releases and Announcements (©myNoSQL)
