Following issues / PRs addressed:

• Upgrade Netty to 4.1.5 to address higher memory usage with Netty 4.1.3

Notes

• This will be the last version of Riak Java Client that supports Java 7.
• Some of the changes are binary-incompatible with RJC 2.0.6, so you will need to recompile your project with this new version.

Following issues / PRs addressed:

• Fixed - Disallow 0 as a timeout value for TimeSeries operations
• Fixed - In RiakUserMetadata#containsKey(), use the charset method parameter when encoding the key [1], [2]
• Fixed - Don't return success to update future after fetch future error [1], [2]
• Fixed - Demoted "channel close" log messages to info level
• Fixed - Made domain name more invalid for UnknownHostException test
• Fixed - Separate Content-type and charset in RiakObject
• Fixed - BinaryValue JSON encoding for MapReduce inputs
• Fixed - Catch & handle BlockingOperationException in RiakNode#execute
• Added Batch Delete Command [1], [2]
• Added equals(), hashCode(), toString() to RiakObject and associated files [1], [2]
• Added getLocation() to KvResponseBase [1], [2]
• Added creation of RiakClient from a collection of HostAndPort objects
• Added overload of RiakClient#execute that accepts a timeout [1], [2]
• Added shortcut commands for $bucket and $key 2i indices
• Added isNotFound() field to data type responses
• Added - Dataplatform / Riak Spark Connector changes merged back into main client [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
• Updated plugins and dependencies
• Updated TS objects and Commands for TS 1.4
• Enhanced - Made Integration Tests Great Again
• Removed Antlr dependency

Special thanks to @bwittwer, @stela, @gerardstannard, @christopherfrieler, @guidomedina, @Tolsi, @hankipanky, @gfbett, @TimurFayruzov, @urzhumskov, @srgg, @aleksey-suprun, @jbrisbin, @christophermancini, and @lukebakken for all the PRs, reported issues, and reviews.

Following issues / PRs addressed:

• Removed riak_pb external dependency
• Fixed connection handling deadlock issue
• Added TimeSeries Create Table command
• Added Erlang Term Serialization support for some Time Series operations

Following issues / PRs addressed:

• Fix DNS cache issue when using the client with ELB
• Remove superfluous declarations of UnknownHostException
• Allow RiakNode max connections to be set to 0
• Fix buildbot support, speed up some tests
• Update Security Tests to use common client test setup & certs, fix Linux TLS setup race condition
• Improve Search Tests, fix bug that doesn't allow counts via search, add n_val property to Yokozuna Index Creation
• Improve Flaky Tests
• Scala Typing Improvements
• Added Location Accessor to FetchDataType base class

Following issues / PRs addressed:

• Time Series - Create Tables Support & Tests
• Time Series - Describe Table Support & Tests
• General - Add Release Notes, better README, and Top Level License

Following issues / PRs addressed:

• Time Series support
• Upgrade Netty to 4.0.33
• Add HostAndPort class - Simplify Cluster Creation
• ListBuckets ignores bucket type parameter
• Client settable Default Charset
• RiakIndex annotation should not have a default value
• Typo in shaded package name
• Deprecated Java 6 Support

Following issues / PRs addressed:

• Option to temporarily queue commands when maxConnections is reached
• Made mocking easier with K/V commands
• Improved JavaDocs for Search and MapReduce
• Added Reset Bucket Properties Command
• Upgraded Animal Sniffer Maven Plugin
• Fixed Java 6 Runtime Compatibility
• Partially fixed missing No UnknownHostException, added logging
• Fixed Java 8 Build Support
• Removed dependency on Sun Tools jar
• Fixed an inconsistency of visibility at secondary index query.response.get entries
• Fixed an inconsistency in StringBinIndex.named()returning type