Apache Ignite Release Notes
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Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric 1.8
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Ignite:
* SQL: Added DML operations support (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE)
* SQL: Improved DISTINCT keyword handling in aggregates
* Hadoop: Added MapR distribution support
* Visor: Improved SQL statistics
* Added Redis protocol support
* Added transactions deadlock detection
* Many stability and fault-tolerance fixes

Ignite.NET:
* ASP.NET session state store provider
* Entity Framework second level cache
* Custom loggers support: NLog, Apache log4Net

ODBC driver:
* Added DML operations support
* Added distributed joins support
* Added DSN support
* Performance improvements

Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric 1.7
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Ignite:
* Added distributed SQL JOIN.
* Node can be assigned as primary only after preloading is finished.
* Fixed CountDownLatch re-create issue.
* ODBC: Added decimal type support.
* Visor: Fixed data nodes calculation when node filter is set for cache.
* Many stability and fault-tolerance fixes.

Ignite.NET:
* Added ASP.NET Output Cache provider.
* Added ability to use .NET configuration in Apache.Ignite.exe.
* Added ability to implement custom affinity functions.
* Fixed a bug in IBinaryObjectBuilder causing type name to be lost.

Ignite CPP:
* Marshalling performance improvements.

Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric 1.6
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Ignite .NET:
* Added LINQ Provider for cache SQL queries
* Added native configuration mechanism (C#, app.config, web.config - instead of Spring XML)
* Added NuGet distribution
* Added AtomicSequence and AtomicReference data structures
* Binaries are now AnyCPU (instead of separate x64/x86)
* Java-based services can be called the same way as .NET service are called
* Added java-based continuous query filters
* Added automatic Java detection: no need for JAVA_HOME
* Added ability to use Java-based remote filters in continuous queries.

Ignite C++:
* Added Transactions API for C++ client.
* Added Date and Timestamp types implementation for C++ client.
* Simplified Autotools build process for C++ client.

Ignite:
* Added ability to get partition 'updateCntr' with continuous query public API.
* Added asynchronous execution of ContinuousQuery's remote filter and local listener.
* Added backup partitions storing to local store default behavior.
* Added cache deadlock detection.
* Added Cache Store implementation backed by Cassandra DB.
* Added method to get versioned cache entry.
* Added ODBC driver for Ignite.
* Added support for join timeout while registering local addresses with IP finder in TcpDiscoverySpi.
* Added support for JTA transactions via synchronization callback.
* Added Web Console for Ignite.
* Fixed a bug causing object deserialization when local store is configured for cache.
* Fixed a problem with incorrect classloader picked in OSGI environment.
* Fixed a race condition when evicted offheap data was not delivered to query engine leading to query timeout.
* Fixed an issue in ContinuousQueries that caused missing of notifications.
* Fixed background cache partition map exchange not to flood network.
* Fixed BinaryContext to honor custom loader set through IgniteConfiguration.
* Fixed BinaryObjectOffHeapImpl leak to public code.
* Fixed cluster stability with 500+ clients.
* Fixed continuous queries to send filter factory instead of filter.
* Fixed continuous query deployment in case originating node has left.
* Fixed issues with continuous query.
* Fixed deadlock in services deployment when Spring is used.
* Fixed discovery and node start procedure issues that may cause slowdowns during larger topologies start (>100 nodes).
* Fixed eviction policy notification if swap or off heap is enabled and an entry is not loaded during preloading.
* Fixed excessive thread stack usage in case of high contention on cache entries.
* Fixed execution of Splunk MapReduce jobs on top of Ignite MR.
* Fixed GridClosureProcessor internal closures to be deserialized by BinaryMarshaller.
* Fixed issue with AWS dependencies.
* Fixed java proxies deserialization with optimized marshaller.
* Fixed local store behavior at cross cache transactions.
* Fixed marshalling of Java collection and maps for BinaryMarshaller.
* Fixed memory leak in IgniteH2Indexing.
* Fixed NPE during rebalancing.
* Fixed NPE in GridMergeIndex.
* Fixed OOME when OFFHEAP_TIERED mode is used.
* Fixed potential thread starvation during cache rebalancing.
* Fixed race condition on load cache on changing topology.
* Fixed race in marshalling logic that could arise when several nodes are running on the same host.
* Fixed redeployment issues happened with ScanQueries filters.
* Fixed service proxy not to make remote call for methods declared in java.lang.Object.
* Fixed several ClassNotFoundException in OSGi environment.
* Fixed SKIP_STORE flag behavior for transaction entry.
* Fixed support for classes with equal simple name for binary marshaller.
* Fixed system caches not to use user-defined TransactionConfiguration.
* Fixed the issue when CacheStore was updated even if EntryProcessor didn't update an entry.
* Fixed thread safety for TcpDiscoveryMulticastIpFinder.
* Fixed unintentional deserialization of BinaryObjects in OFFHEAP mode with peer class loading enabled.
* Fixed UTF-16 surrogate pairs marshalling.
* Fixed value copying in entry processor with OptimizedMarshaller.
* Fixed web session clustering with WebLogic.
* Hadoop: fixed a bug causing exception during MR planning when input split file doesn't exist.
* IGFS: Added configuration flag to disable default path modes under "/ignite" folder.
* IGFS: Added pluggable factory interface for Hadoop FileSystem creation.
* IGFS: Fixed file properties when running over secondary file system.
* IGFS: Fixed issues with Kerberized HDFS.
* IGFS: Massive performance and stability fixes.
* Improved marshaller behavior during cluster topology change.
* Mesos integration: added possibility to load Ignite package from file system.
* Optimized cache 'get' operations on affinity node.
* Optimized memory usage on server nodes to allow more client connections.
* Passed update notifier flag to discovery data to be sure that all cluster nodes have the same notifier status as the first node.
* Performance optimization for transactions that do not acquire locks.
* ScanQueries over local partitions performance optimisation.
* Support of package-private implementations for Ignite Services.
* Supported Ignite Compute tasks cancellation for Ignite.NET.
* Visor CMD: Added ability to attach custom scripts to alerts.
* Web sessions: minor fix to prevent NullPointerException in some special case.
* Web sessions: user session classes are no longer needed on server nodes.
* A lot of stability and fault-tolerance fixes.

Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric 1.5
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* Ignite.NET: Initial Release.
* Ignite C++: Initial Release.
* Massive performance improvements for cache operations and SQL.
* Added new binary cache object marshalling implementation.
* Added IgniteSemaphore data structure.
* Added MQTT Streamer.
* Added Twitter Streamer.
* Added Ignite Sink (integration with Apache Flume).
* Added Apache Camel Streamer.
* Added OSGi support.
* Fixed optimistic serializable transactions: implemented "deadlock-free" locking algorithm.
* Fixed failover for continuous queries.
* Fixed compilation and runtime errors under OpenJDK and IBM JDK.
* Fixed Integer.size limitation for cache.
* Fixed and improved cache types configuration.
* Fixed cache rebalancing.
* Many stability and fault-tolerance fixes.
* Added example to demonstrate the usage of EntryProcessor.

Complete list of closed issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20IGNITE%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.5%20AND%20status%20%3D%20closed

Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric 1.4
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* Added SSL support to communication and discovery.
* Added support for log4j2.
* Added versioned entry to cache API.
* Added client node based JDBC driver implementation.
* Fixed consistency issue for custom events processing within discovery.
* Fixed race in cache swap/unswap logic.
* Fixed IGNITE_HOME resolution with JBoss.
* Fixed configuration file resolution on classpath.
* Fixed MBean registration for caches.
* Fixed near cache evictions with offheap.
* Fixed SQL queries group index logic.
* Fixed memory leak in partitioned transactional cache.
* Fixed auto-retries for cache operations in recoverable cases.
* Fixed affinity routing in compute grid.
* Many stability and fault-tolerance fixes.

Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric 1.3
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* Added auto-retries for cache operations in recoverable cases.
* Added integration with Apache YARN.
* Added auto detection and dropping of slow client nodes.
* Fixed several issues with JTA integration.
* Fixed several issues with Hibernate L2 cache.
* Fixed issue with GAR files in source release.
* Stability fixes for TCP discovery SPI.
* Stability fixes for onheap and offheap SQL queries.
* Bug fixes in In-Memory Accelerator For Apache Hadoop.
* Many stability and fault-tolerance fixes.

Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric 1.2
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* Added client mode to TCP discovery SPI.
* Added memory based evictions.
* Added integration with Apache Spark.
* Added integration with Apache Mesos.
* Added IgniteCache.getAllOutTx() method.
* Added serializable cache store factories for built-in stores.
* Bug fixes in In-Memory Accelerator For Apache Hadoop.
* Many stability and fault-tolerance fixes.

Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric 1.1
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* Added Google Compute Engine TCP discovery IP finder.
* Added generic cloud TCP discovery IP finder (based on jclouds).
* Added SortedEvictionPolicy.
* Added chaining for IgniteConfiguration and CacheConfiguration setters.
* Added AffinityUuid class for easier generation of unique collocated keys.
* Added support for cache configuration templates.
* Added support for (*) star notation in cache names.
* Added "collocated" mode for SQL queries.
* Improved expiry policy handling (TTL based evictions) to avoid thrashing.
* Fixed job continuations.
* Fixed compilation and runtime with OpenJDK 7 & 8
* Fixed SQL Union support
* Fixed Word-Count streaming example to produce better results.
* Removed edtFTPj scanner from URI deployment due to licensing issues.
* Made deployment scanners for URI-based deployment pluggable.
* Many stability and fault-tolerance fixes.

Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric 1.0
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* Simplified query API.
* Added automatic aggregation, grouping, and sorting support to SQL queries.
* Added dynamic caches, i.e. ability to start and stop caches during runtime.
* Changed IgniteDataLoader to IgniteDataStreamer.
* Added automatic transformation support to streaming.
* Removed old streaming APIs in favor of new IgniteDataStreamer.
* Added many examples using Java8 lambdas and streams.
* Added new streaming examples based on new streaming and SQL querying APIs.
* Added automatic schema-import demo under examples.
* Improved javadoc documentation.
* Added ability to automatically exclude LGPL optional dependencies during build.


Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric 1.0 RC3
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This is the first release of Apache Ignite project. The source code in large part is based
on the 7 year old GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric, open source edition, v. 6.6.2, which was
donated to Apache Software Foundation in September 2014.

The main feature set of Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric includes:
* Advanced Clustering
* Compute Grid
* Data Grid
* Service Grid
* IGFS - Ignite File System
* Distributed Data Structures
* Distributed Messaging
* Distributed Events
* Streaming & CEP