[Release] C/C++ DSE driver v1.3.0

[Michael Penick]

Hi,

We've just released v1.3.0 of the C/C++ driver for DSE! This release adds the ability to specify a custom memory allocator and also brings many improvements, optimizations, and fixes.

Issue	Summary	Type
CPP-504	Fix `cass_int_t` types for all supported compilers/platforms	Bug
CPP-503	Schema meta race condition when a view is dropped from a table	Bug
CPP-501	Schema metadata is corrupted when views and indexes exist for a table	Bug
CPP-500	Custom allocator crashes on polymorphic types	Bug
CPP-498	DSE Driver build fails against libuv 0.10	Bug
CPP-487	Kerberos: The "no name" constant should be used when the principal is empty.	Bug
CPP-485	Add Google Test Support in Core Driver	Improvement
CPP-480	Add support for authentication using keytab file	New Feature
CPP-478	Rename "SpeculativeExecution" to "RequestExecution".	Improvement
CPP-477	Native protocol Supported Response is not properly decoded	Bug
CPP-476	Replace strlen with sizeof(...) for static strings	Improvement
CPP-467	Refactor request encoding/decoding	Epic
CPP-466	Shuffle replicas when using token aware routing	Improvement
CPP-455	crash in iterator while paging and big cassandra load	Bug
CPP-444	Fix const correctness of serialization functions	Improvement
CPP-440	Preallocate buffers before encoding	Improvement
CPP-437	Batch statement encoding performance regression	Bug
CPP-432	Remove dense table 'empty' columns from metadata	Improvement
CPP-417	Extend request metrics to detail speculative retry proportion	Improvement
CPP-368	Protect against strlen of potentially NULL user-provided strings.	Bug
CPP-360	Add ability to specify a custom memory allocator	New Feature
CPP-136	Check remaining data size when decoding message	Improvement

For more information use the following links:

Docs: http://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/cpp-driver-dse/1.3

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

Source: https://github.com/datastax/cpp-dse-driver

Cheers!

Mike