[Release] DataStax Python Driver Version 3.3.0

[Adam Holmberg]

Version  3.3.0 of the DataStax Python Driver has been released. You can read about some of the new features in the release blog post. 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.

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Report issues on JIRA: https://datastax-oss.atlassian.net/browse/PYTHON

Regards,
Adam Holmberg

3.3.0

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May 2, 2016

Features

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* Add an AddressTranslator interface (PYTHON-69)

* New Retry Policy Decision - try next host (PYTHON-285)

* Don't mark host down on timeout (PYTHON-286)

* SSL hostname verification (PYTHON-296)

* Add C* version to metadata or cluster objects (PYTHON-301)

* Expose listen_address of node we get ring information from (PYTHON-332)

* Use A-record with multiple IPs for contact points (PYTHON-415)

* Custom consistency level for populating query traces (PYTHON-435)

* Normalize Server Exception Types (PYTHON-443)

* Propagate exception message when DDL schema agreement fails (PYTHON-444)

* Specialized exceptions for metadata refresh methods failure (PYTHON-527)

Bug Fixes

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* Resolve contact point hostnames to avoid duplicate hosts (PYTHON-103)

* Options to Disable Schema, Token Metadata Processing (PYTHON-327)

* GeventConnection stalls requests when read is a multiple of the input buffer size (PYTHON-429)

* named_tuple_factory breaks with duplicate "cleaned" col names (PYTHON-467)

* Connection leak if Cluster.shutdown() happens during reconnection (PYTHON-482)

* HostConnection.borrow_connection does not block when all request ids are used (PYTHON-514)

* Empty field not being handled by the NumpyProtocolHandler (PYTHON-550)