kudu git commit: Add announcement post for 1.3.0

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Repository: kudu
Updated Branches:
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Add announcement post for 1.3.0

Change-Id: I002e24b90ea28cd25168315c8e0e30645c7ff1ae
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/6557
Reviewed-by: Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>
Tested-by: Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>


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Branch: refs/heads/gh-pages
Commit: 16d7b12d7ee0b0204324731713fb5214deadec6b
Parents: d114777
Author: Todd Lipcon <to...@cloudera.com>
Authored: Wed Apr 5 10:50:35 2017 -0700
Committer: Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>
Committed: Wed Apr 5 18:00:26 2017 +0000

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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/blob/16d7b12d/_posts/2017-03-20-apache-kudu-1-3-0-released.md
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+---
+layout: post
+title: Apache Kudu 1.3.0 released
+author: Todd Lipcon
+---
+
+The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.3.0!
+
+Apache Kudu 1.3 is a minor release which adds various new features,
+improvements, bug fixes, and optimizations on top of Kudu
+1.2. Highlights include:
+
+<!--more-->
+
+- significantly improved support for security, including Kerberos
+  authentication, TLS encryption, and coarse-grained (cluster-level)
+  authorization
+- automatic garbage collection of historical versions of data
+- lower space consumption and better performance in default
+  configurations.
+
+The above list of changes is non-exhaustive. Please refer to the
+[release notes](/releases/1.3.0/docs/release_notes.html)
+for an expanded list of important improvements, bug fixes, and
+incompatible changes before upgrading.
+
+Thanks to the 25 developers who contributed code or documentation to
+this release!
+
+* Download the [Kudu 1.3.0 source release](/releases/1.3.0/)
+* Convenience binary artifacts for the Java client and various Java
+integrations (eg Spark, Flume) are also now available via the ASF Maven
+repository.