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cassandra-python-driver v2.6.0.c1 Release Notes

  • June 4, 2015

    🚀 This release adds support for Cassandra 2.2 features, including version 4 of the native protocol.

    🔋 Features

    • 0️⃣ Default load balancing policy to TokenAware(DCAware) (PYTHON-160)
    • 🔧 Configuration option for connection timeout (PYTHON-206)
    • 👌 Support User Defined Function and Aggregate metadata in C* 2.2 (PYTHON-211)
    • Surface request client in QueryTrace for C* 2.2+ (PYTHON-235)
    • Implement new request failure messages in protocol v4+ (PYTHON-238)
    • 📇 Metadata model now maps index meta by index name (PYTHON-241)
    • 👌 Support new types in C* 2.2: date, time, smallint, tinyint (PYTHON-245, 295)
    • 🚚 cqle: add Double column type and remove Float overload (PYTHON-246)
    • 👉 Use partition key column information in prepared response for protocol v4+ (PYTHON-277)
    • 👌 Support message custom payloads in protocol v4+ (PYTHON-280, PYTHON-329)
    • 🗄 Deprecate refresh_schema and replace with functions for specific entities (PYTHON-291)
    • 💾 Save trace id even when trace complete times out (PYTHON-302)
    • Warn when registering client UDT class for protocol < v3 (PYTHON-305)
    • 👌 Support client warnings returned with messages in protocol v4+ (PYTHON-315)
    • Ability to distinguish between NULL and UNSET values in protocol v4+ (PYTHON-317)
    • 🔦 Expose CQL keywords in API (PYTHON-324)

    🐛 Bug Fixes

    • 🏁 IPv6 address support on Windows (PYTHON-20)
    • Convert exceptions during automatic re-preparation to nice exceptions (PYTHON-207)
    • cqle: Quote keywords properly in table management functions (PYTHON-244)
    • 0️⃣ Don't default to GeventConnection when gevent is loaded, but not monkey-patched (PYTHON-289)
    • Pass dynamic host from SaslAuthProvider to SaslAuthenticator (PYTHON-300)
    • 🏁 Make protocol read_inet work for Windows (PYTHON-309)
    • cqle: Correct encoding for nested types (PYTHON-311)
    • ⚡️ Update list of CQL keywords used quoting identifiers (PYTHON-319)
    • 👉 Make ConstantReconnectionPolicy work with infinite retries (github #327, PYTHON-325)
    • Accept UUIDs with uppercase hex as valid in cqlengine (github #335)