What's New in beta-20160908

Sep 8, 2016

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CockroachDB has reverted to RocksDB 4.8. #9118
The logging format has changed to include a goroutine ID. #8977
CockroachDB now builds correctly when Git worktrees are used; as a consequence Git version 2.5 or newer is now required when building from source. #9072

The --from and --to arguments of debugging commands now support backslash-escaped keys. #8903
If any environment variables are used to configure the server, the names of those variables are printed to the logs. #9069

Fixed a bug that would result in the server locking up after a few hours on a machine or VM with only one CPU. #8908
Fixed another cause of persistently broken connections on node restarts. #8947
CREATE TABLE now reports errors correctly instead of failing silently. #9011
The replica garbage collection process is no longer confused by uninitialized replicas. #9021
Fixed various data races. #8865, #8933
Fixed a panic in the time-series query system. #9038

Internal locking mechanisms have been refactored to improve parallelism. #8941
GRPC request tracing has been disabled due to its memory cost. #9113
Raft leadership is more reliably transferred to coincide with the range lease. #8932
Raft snapshots are now limited to one at a time on both the receiving and sending nodes. #8974
Node startup time has been improved. #9020
Reduced memory usage of the timestamp cache. #9102
Old replicas are now garbage-collected with higher priority. #9019
Transaction records for splits and replica changes are now garbage-collected sooner. #9036

Added docs on deploying CockroachDB on Google Cloud Platform GCE. #574
Added docs on orchestrating CockroachDB with Kubernetes. #584
Updated troubleshooting docs to cover cases when nodes will not join a cluster. #610
Each version's release notes now link to the corresponding Mac and Linux binaries. #604
Updated docs on secure local and secure distributed deployment to show how to stop nodes. #619

This release includes 180 merged PRs by 17 authors. We would like to thank first-time contributor Henry Escobar from the CockroachDB community.

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