[Release] C/C++ Driver 2.6.0

[Michael Penick]

We've just released 2.6.0! This release adds support for the duration data type and includes several fixes/improvements:

• [CPP-436] Unable to retrieve function metadata using Cassandra v2.2.X (Bug)
  
• [CPP-435] Calling 'cass_iterator_get_row' for a single row COUNT statement's result asserts (Bug)
  
• [CPP-434] Update tests, docs, and examples to use 32-bit values for Duration attributes (Improvement)
  
• [CPP-433] Request metrics returning zero percentiles (Bug)
  
• [CPP-431] CQL type parser doesn't handle custom types (Bug)
  
• [CPP-429] Update Duration tests and example to be legal (Improvement)
  
• [CPP-428] Use global primitive data types instead of local data type caches (Improvement)
  
• [CPP-427] Fill in some doc gaps on how to run cpp driver tests (Improvement)
  
• [CPP-419] Incorrect datatype assignment for varint when using Cassandra 1.2.x - 2.1.x (Bug)
  
• [CPP-418] Add support for Duration datatype introduced in C* 3.10 (New Feature)
  
• [CPP-412] Timestamp generator is not fully monotonic (Bug)
  
• [CPP-408] "All connections on all I/O threads are busy" on C* restart (Bug)
  
• [CPP-398] Calling cass_cluster_set_load_balance_dc_aware with incorrect "local_dc" parameter hangs indefinitely (Bug)
  
• [CPP-384] Calling cass_cluster_set_num_threads_io with incorrect IP before connection sometimes hangs (Bug)
  
• [CPP-383] Documentation mismatch with default consistency (Bug)
  
• [CPP-363] Memory leaks observed (Bug)
  
• [CPP-354] Add process information (pid) to UUID node hash (Bug)
  

Downloads: http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/

Documentation: http://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/cpp-driver/2.6/

Changes: https://github.com/datastax/cpp-driver/blob/2.6.0/CHANGELOG.md#260

Cheers,

Mike