[Release] Java driver 3.0.0-alpha2

[Olivier Michallat]

We've just released version 3.0.0-alpha2 of the driver, which brings compatibility with Cassandra 3.0.0-beta1.

This is an early preview, only intended for people testing Cassandra 3. The API is not stable yet, we don't guarantee binary compatibility with future 3.0 versions.

Here is the changelog:

- [new feature] Move secondary index metadata out of column definitions

  (JAVA-875, JAVA-882).

Merged from 2.2 branch:

- [bug] Propagate CodecRegistry to nested UDTs (JAVA-847)

- [improvement] Ability to store a default, shareable CodecRegistry

  instance (JAVA-848)

- [bug] Treat empty ByteBuffers as empty values in TupleCodec and

  UDTCodec (JAVA-880)

The driver is available from Maven:

<dependency>

  <groupId>com.datastax.cassandra</groupId>

  <artifactId>cassandra-driver-mapping</artifactId>

  <version>3.0.0-alpha2</version>

</dependency>

And from our downloads site:

http://downloads.datastax.com/java-driver/cassandra-java-driver-3.0.0-alpha2.tar.gz

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