svn commit: r1661041 - /gora/site/trunk/content/index.md

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Author: lewismc
Date: Fri Feb 20 00:29:30 2015
New Revision: 1661041

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1661041
Log:
Release Announcement

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    gora/site/trunk/content/index.md

Modified: gora/site/trunk/content/index.md
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/gora/site/trunk/content/index.md?rev=1661041&r1=1661040&r2=1661041&view=diff
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--- gora/site/trunk/content/index.md (original)
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@@ -38,6 +38,29 @@ Title: Welcome to Apache Gora™
 
 ## News
 
+###19 February, 2015: Apache Gora 0.6 Release
+The Apache Gora team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+Apache Gora 0.6.
+
+This release addresses a modest [47 issues](http://s.apache.org/gora-0.6) with some being
+major improvements, new functionality and dependency upgrades. Most notably the release
+involves key upgrades to Hadoop, HBase and Solr dependecies as well as some
+extermely important bug fixes for the MongoDB module. 
+
+Suggested Gora database support is as follows
+
+   - Apache Avro 1.7.6
+   - Apache Hadoop 1.2.1 and 2.5.2
+   - Apache HBase 0.98.8-hadoop2
+   - Apache Cassandra 2.0.2
+   - Apache Solr 4.10.3
+   - MongoDB 2.6.X
+   - Apache Accumlo 1.5.1
+
+Gora is released as both source code, downloads for which can be found at
+our [downloads page](http://gora.apache.org/downloads.html) as well as Maven artifacts which can be found on
+[Maven central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|gora). 
+
 ###8 January, 2015: Gora upgrades to Hadoop 2.5.X and HBase 0.98.X
 Today our Jira issue [GORA-375](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GORA-375) was resolved
 with the result that the Gora community can now upgrade their systems to operate on Hadoop 2.X