[Announcement] Release 1.9.0

[Tyler Hobbs]

I've just released version 1.9.0 of pycassa on github and pypi.  This should be a straightfoward upgrade with no required changes to application code.

All of the work for this release was contributed by the community (!), so I would like to thank you guys for your contributions, both in terms of bug reports and pull requests.

If you encounter any problems, please open a ticket here: https://github.com/pycassa/pycassa/issues

You can find the full changelog here: http://pycassa.github.io/pycassa/changelog.html#changes-in-version-1-9-0, but the plaintext version follows:

Changes in Version 1.9.0
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    This release adds a couple of minor new features and improves multithreaded
    locking behavior in ConnectionPool. There should be no backwards-
    compatibility concerns.

    Features

      * Full support for column_start, column_finish, column_count, and
        column_reversed parameters in contrib.stubs
      * Addition of an include_ttl parameter to ColumnFamily fetching
        methods which works like the existing include_timestamp parameter.

    Bug Fixes

      * Reduce the locked critical section in ConnectionPool, primarily to
        make sure lock aquisition time is not ignored outside of the pool’s
        timeout setting.


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Tyler Hobbs
DataStax