[Release] Ruby DSE Driver 1.0.0 GA!

[Sandeep Tamhankar]

Hey there, DataStax Enterprise users!

We just released the GA of our 1.0.0 DSE driver for Ruby. It is a wrapper around the core driver (3.0.3) and adds three major features: unified DSE authentication (which includes Kerberos support), support for geospatial types (introduced in DSE 5.0), and DSE Graph. For folks who've played with our previous release candidate, here's what's changed since:

• Added Kerberos support for JRuby.
  
• Add support for non-default kerberos caches.
  
• Graph queries should default to having no timeout.
  
• When a graph query is executed with a timeout, send the timeout to the graph server to scope execution time server-side.
  
• Support clearing individual options in a Dse::Graph::Options object.
  
• Allow "expert" options to be set in graph options.
  
• Support Duration datatype in graph queries.
  

We also fixed a few minor bugs along the way:

* RUBY-249: Dse::Graph::Options.inspect erroneously reports nil option values

* RUBY-252: Graph option timeout ignored when set at cluster level

The Ruby DSE driver is available on rubygems as 'dse-driver'. You can also clone the public repository from GitHub.

Check out the details in our docs and blog post.

Enjoy!

-Sandeep