[Release] DataStax Python Driver Version 2.7.0

[Adam Holmberg]

Version 2.7.0 of the DataStax Python Driver has been released. 

This has been a performance-focused release. Major highlights include new extensions accelerating result deserialization, and new request timer implementations providing improvements in synchronous request throughput. Read more about it in the blog post accompanying this release.

A complete list of changes can be found in the changelog (reproduced below for your convenience).

Thanks to all who provided pull requests and bug reports for this release. Your engagement is appreciated.

Discuss the driver and ask questions:
     Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/a/lists.datastax.com/forum/#!forum/python-driver-user
     IRC: #datastax-drivers on irc.freenode.net
Review and contribute source code: https://github.com/datastax/python-driver/
Report issues on JIRA: https://datastax-oss.atlassian.net/browse/PYTHON

Regards,
Adam Holmberg

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2.7.0 Changes

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Features

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* General Performance Improvements for Throughput (PYTHON-283)

* Improve synchronous request performance with Timers (PYTHON-108)

* Enable C Extensions for PyPy Runtime (PYTHON-357)

* Refactor SerDes functionality for pluggable interface (PYTHON-313)

* Cython SerDes Extension (PYTHON-377)

* Accept iterators/generators for execute_concurrent() (PYTHON-123)

* cythonize existing modules (PYTHON-342)

* Pure Python murmur3 implementation (PYTHON-363)

* Make driver tolerant of inconsistent metadata (PYTHON-370)

Bug Fixes

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* Drop Events out-of-order Cause KeyError on Processing (PYTHON-358)

* DowngradingConsistencyRetryPolicy doesn't check response count on write timeouts (PYTHON-338)

* Blocking connect does not use connect_timeout (PYTHON-381)

* Properly protect partition key in CQL export (PYTHON-375)

* Trigger error callbacks on timeout (PYTHON-294)

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[Adam Holmberg]

Apologies for the noise here.

The 2.7.0 source distribution was not including certain source files required for building core extensions. This has been resolved and published in patch release 2.7.1.

Adam Holmberg

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