Hypertable 0.9.8.8 is now available for download!

[Doug Judd]

Hypertable version 0.9.8.8 is now available for download at

 http://www.hypertable.com/download/.

Version 0.9.8.8:

(2015-05-15)

   Added NO_LOG feature to allow skipping commit log write

   Added group commit to MetaLog

   issue 1196: Periodically roll MetaLog file to prevent it from getting too big

   Improved file flush logic in HDFS broker

   issue 1341: Eliminated superfluous memory copy in CellStoreScannerIntervalBlockIndex::fetch_next_block

   Added --pidfile option to performance test Client and Dispatcher

   Secondary index improvements (including performance)

   Small fix on scan and filter rows

   Fixed column predicate values that are not 0-terminated strings

   More performance improvements

   Reduced brittleness in Bad-RSML-Master-recover test

   Client side performance improvements

   Fixed bug in AsyncComm RequestCache::get_next_timeout

   Added fast numeric formatters, replacing sprintf

   Added PageArena dup overload for std::string

   Share application queues among table objects

   Cleaned up COUNTER handling code in CellCache

   Use dictionary for strings in CellsBuilder

   Reduced calls to strlen and cf spec lookups in Mutator

   Fixed path problem in auto-generated hql_types.rb

   Performance improvements in LocationCache and TableMutatorAsyncScatterBuffer

   Don't create object map entry on weak reference in ThriftBroker

   Changed strings returned by value to const reference

   Fix MapReduce connectors for rows with non-UTF8 characters

- Doug