Preparing for a new release: MRQL 0.9.6

[Leonidas Fegaras <fe...@cse.uta.edu>]

Dear MRQL developers & mentors,
I would like to prepare a new release candidate (MRQL 0.9.6) for vote in 
the next few days. The previous release MRQL 0.9.4 was released one year 
ago, on February 24, 2015. The most important new feature in the new 
release is support for incremental query processing in MRQL streaming, 
called Incremental MRQL.
Best regards,
Leonidas Fegaras

Release Notes - Apache MRQL 0.9.6-incubating
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New Features

[MRQL-72] Add support for stream input on TCP sockets
[MRQL-79] Add support for incremental query processing

Bugs

[MRQL-67] Fix maven build errors for JDK 1.8
[MRQL-69] Allow escaped quotes in JSON strings
[MRQL-73] Set the max number of tasks in Spark mode
[MRQL-76] Change the mrql.flink shell script to work with Flink 0.9.0
[MRQL-78] Turn off Flink log INFO messages
[MRQL-81] Fix the coercion of persistent collections to in-memory bags
[MRQL-82] Fix the split size calculation in map-reduce mode

Improvements

[MRQL-70] Update Flink version to 0.8.1
[MRQL-74] Update Flink version to 0.9.0
[MRQL-75] Add support for Hama v0.7 on Yarn
[MRQL-77] Support single Flink jobs on YARN
[MRQL-80] Support Flink 0.10

Tasks

[MRQL-68] GitHub integration for MRQL
[MRQL-71] Add google analytics tracking and bring the MRQL web site 
up-to-date