What's New in beta-20160602

Jun 2, 2016

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New Features

• String literals can now be parsed as DATE, TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMPTZ, or INTERVAL without an explicit cast. #6925
• Floor division is now supported with a new operator, //. #6642
• Sub-queries are now allowed in LIMIT, OFFSET, and RETURNING expressions. #6735

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a missing error check that could result in inconsistencies when transactions conflict. #6899

Performance Improvements

• Improved performance of one-phase transactions. #6857, #6861
• Improved the ability of MIN() and MAX() functions to detect the ordering of the data and read only a single row. #6891

Doc Updates

• Added a tutorial on building an Application with CockroachDB and SQLAlchemy
• Added docs on how CockroachDB handles NULL values in various contexts. #333
• Improved guidance on Contributing to CockroachDB docs. #344
• Improved zone configuration examples. #327

Contributors

This release includes 55 merged PRs by 18 authors. We would like to thank the following contributors from the CockroachDB community, especially first-time contributors, Sean Loiselle and Thonakom Sangnetra:

• Sean Loiselle
• Thanakom Sangnetra
• Paul Steffensen