[ANNOUNCE] Tephra 0.4.1

[Gary Helmling]

I'm happy to announce the release of Tephra 0.4.1.

This release addresses the following issues:

 * [TEPHRA-1] - tephra-core shouldn't depend on HBase
 * [TEPHRA-5] - Use Configuration instead of HBaseConfiguration when possible
 * [TEPHRA-55] - Provide a command to manually clear IDs from invalid list
 * [TEPHRA-64] - Time out long running transactions
 * [TEPHRA-65] - TransactionAwareHTable does not provide read-your-own-writes
 * [TEPHRA-68] - Remove duplicate getFirstShortInProgress() implementations
 * [TEPHRA-75] - TransactionAwareHTable implementations should set transaction as operation attribute
 * [TEPHRA-76] - TxUtils.getMaxVisibleTimestamp() can overflow
 * [TEPHRA-79] - Expose current transaction from TransactionContext

Release artifacts are available from Maven Central and downloadable from github:

https://github.com/caskdata/tephra/releases/tag/v0.4.1