[ANNOUNCE] JanusGraph 0.4.0 Release

[Florian Hockmann]

The JanusGraph Technical Steering Committee is excited to announce the release of JanusGraph 0.4.0.

JanusGraph is an Apache TinkerPop enabled property graph database with support for a variety of storage and indexing backends. Thank you to all of the contributors.

Notable new features in this release include:

• Updates to key dependencies for Apache TinkerPop 3.4, Apache Cassandra 2.2, Apache HBase 2.1, Berkeley DB JE 7.5, Google Cloud Bigtable 1.11
• Support CQL for OLAP which completes our CQL support
• Performance improvements for pre-fetching of properties
  

The release artifacts can be found at this location:
    https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.4.0

A binary distribution is provided for user convenience:
    https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/download/v0.4.0/janusgraph-0.4.0-hadoop2.zip

The online docs can be found here:
    https://docs.janusgraph.org/0.4.0/index.html

To view the resolved issues and commits check the milestone here:

        https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/milestone/8?closed=1

Thank you very much,
Florian Hockmann