Check out NEWS.txt for more info, including on how to upgrade your cluster.
Here's a snippet of all the new features:
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New Features in Brisk 1.0 Beta 2
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The following new features have been added in this release. For more
information on these features, see the Brisk Jira Project
(https://datastax.jira.com/browse/BRISK).
BRISK-12
Apache Pig Integration. For more information about using Pig in Brisk, see:
http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/brisk/about_pig
BRISK-89
Job Tracker Failover. For more information about using the new brisktool movejt
command, see:
http://www.datastax.com/docs/8.0/brisk/about_hive#setting-the-job-tracker-node-for-brisk
BRISK-207
New Snappy Compression Codec built on Google Snappy is now used internally for
automatic CassandraFS block compression.
BRISK-180
Automap Cassandra Column Families to Hive Tables in the Brisk Hive Metastore.
BRISK-152
Add a second HDFS layer in CassandraFS for long-term data storage. This is
needed because the blocks column family in CFS requires frequent compactions -
Hadoop uses it during MapReduce processing to store small files and temporary
data. Compaction cleans this temporary data up after it is not needed anymore.
Now there is the cfs:/// and cfs-archive:/// endpoints within CFS. The blocks
column family in cfs-archive:/// has compaction disabled to improve performance
for static data stored in CFS.
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Major Fixes in Brisk 1.0 Beta 2
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Brisk 1.0 Beta 2 also incudes the following major fixes. For details on all fixes in Beta 2, see the Brisk Jira Project (https://datastax.jira.com/browse/BRISK).
BRISK-126 Remove multiple slf4j warnings
BRISK-203 Use batchMutate instead of insert in HiveCassandraOutputFormat
BRISK-219 Cassandra super columns not mapping in Hive
BRISK-220 Improve performance of hadoop fs -ls
CASSANDRA-2683 Compaction issue causing secondary index corruption.
