[systemds-website] branch master updated: [DOCS] Add release notes and update release version to 2.2.0

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     new 3dc7ec4  [DOCS] Add release notes and update release version to 2.2.0
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commit 3dc7ec456bb975bf83adc5129379ee9a34903bbc
Author: Janardhan Pulivarthi <j1...@protonmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Oct 30 22:48:40 2021 +0530

    [DOCS] Add release notes and update release version to 2.2.0
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 _src/_data/project.yml                             |  2 +-
 _src/release-notes/systemds-release-notes-2.2.0.md | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/_src/_data/project.yml b/_src/_data/project.yml
index c23bc96..1345db9 100644
--- a/_src/_data/project.yml
+++ b/_src/_data/project.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ issues_list_archive_markmail:
 jira: SYSTEMDS
 
 release_name: systemds
-release_version: 2.1.0
+release_version: 2.2.0
 
 source_repository: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/systemds.git
 source_repository_mirror: https://github.com/apache/systemds
diff --git a/_src/release-notes/systemds-release-notes-2.2.0.md b/_src/release-notes/systemds-release-notes-2.2.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67a14ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_src/release-notes/systemds-release-notes-2.2.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+---
+layout: page
+title: SystemDS 2.2.0 Release Notes
+description: Project Release Notes
+group: nav-right
+---
+<!--
+{% comment %}
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+-->
+
+<section class="full-stripe full-stripe--subpage-header clear-header">
+  <div class="ml-container ml-container--horizontally-center">
+    <div class="col col-12 content-group content-group--center-content content-group--center-align">
+      <h1>{{ site.data.project.name }} 2.2.0 Release Notes</h1>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</section>
+
+<section class="full-stripe full-stripe--alternate">
+  <div class="ml-container">
+    <div class="col col-12 content-group content-group--medium-bottom-margin" markdown="1">
+
+## Release notes for SystemDS 2.2.0
+
+SystemDS 2.2 is a minor release. This release contains major improvements to existing features,
+a large number of performance and robustness fixes, and some experimental features to better
+support the end-to-end data science lifecycle. In addition to that, this is the last release
+with Java 8 and Spark 2.x.
+
+The major changes (compared to SystemDS 2.1) include:
+
+- Federated Backend: Extended operations and built-ins to support various workflows and algorithms.
+- Full support for compressed linear algebra.
+- Full support for multithreaded feature transformation.
+- Various performance improvements to existing builtins in SystemDS's local, distributed, and native runtimes.
+- Performance and robustness fixes for eval. Parfor support for eval.
+- Robust performance test suite.
+- Asynchronous triggering of spark operations via prefetch and broadcast
+- New feature: Generating custom readers by example [experimental]
+- Robust release automation scripts with dry-run support.
+- Miscellaneous Improvements: Improved documentation, better testing, Python API, GPU backend.