Beta Release 2016-06-02

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What's new in CockroachDB beta-20160602?   June 2, 2016   A new beta release of CockroachDB is now available: beta-20160602. The download links on the installation instructions have been updated to point to the new release.   New Features String literals can now be parsed as DATE, TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMPTZ, orINTERVAL without an explicit cast. #6925 Floor division is now supported with a new operator: //. #6642 Sub-queries are now allowed in LIMIT, OFFSET, and RETURNING expressions.#6735 Bug Fixes Fixed a missing error check that could result in inconsistencies when transactions conflict. #6899 Performance Improvements Improved performance of one-phase transactions. #6857, #6861 Improved the ability of MIN() and MAX() functions to detect the ordering of the data and read only a single row. #6891 Doc Updates Added a tutorial on building an Application with CockroachDB and SQLAlchemy Added docs on how CockroachDB handles NULL values in various contexts. #333 Improved guidance on Contributing to CockroachDB docs. #344 Improved zone configuration examples. #327 Contributors This release includes 55 merged PRs by 18 authors. We would like to thank the following contributors from the CockroachDB community, especially first-time contributors, Sean Loiselle and Thonakom Sangnetra: Sean Loiselle Thanakom Sangnetra Paul Steffensen Cheers,  The Cockroach Labs Team