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Posted to commits@accumulo.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2015/05/19 23:53:55 UTC

svn commit: r951936 - in /websites/staging/accumulo/trunk/content: ./ release_notes/1.7.0.html

Author: buildbot
Date: Tue May 19 21:53:54 2015
New Revision: 951936

Log:
Staging update by buildbot for accumulo

Modified:
    websites/staging/accumulo/trunk/content/   (props changed)
    websites/staging/accumulo/trunk/content/release_notes/1.7.0.html

Propchange: websites/staging/accumulo/trunk/content/
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Modified: websites/staging/accumulo/trunk/content/release_notes/1.7.0.html
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--- websites/staging/accumulo/trunk/content/release_notes/1.7.0.html (original)
+++ websites/staging/accumulo/trunk/content/release_notes/1.7.0.html Tue May 19 21:53:54 2015
@@ -215,9 +215,10 @@ Latest 1.5 release: <strong>1.5.2</stron
     <h1 id="draft-draft-draft-draft-draft-draft">DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT</h1>
 <p>Apache Accumulo 1.7.0 is a major release which includes a number of important milestone features
 that expand on the functionality of Accumulo. These features range from security to availability
-to extendability.</p>
-<p>In the context of Accumulo's Semantic Versioning guidelines, this is a "minor version" which means
-that new APIs have been created, but no deprecated APIs have been removed. Code written against
+to extendability. Nearly 700 JIRA issues were resolved with the release of this version: approximately
+two-thirds of which were bugs and one third were improvements.</p>
+<p>In the context of Accumulo's <a href="http://semver.org">Semantic Versioning</a> <a href="https://github.com/apache/accumulo/blob/1.7.0/README.md#api">guidelines</a>, this is a "minor version"
+which means that new APIs have been created, but no deprecated APIs have been removed. Code written against
 1.6.x should work against 1.7.0, possibly with a re-compilation. As always, the Accumulo
 developers take API compatibility very seriously and have invested much time in ensuring that
 we meet the promises set forward to our users.</p>
@@ -299,7 +300,7 @@ options and file creation options.</p>
 <h3 id="api-clarification">API Clarification</h3>
 <p>The declared API in 1.6.x was incomplete. Some important classes like ColumnVisibility were not declared as Accumulo API. A lot 
 of work was done under <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3657">ACCUMULO-3657</a> to correct the API statement and clean up the API. The expanded and 
-simplified API statement is in the <a href="https://github.com/apache/accumulo/blob/8cba8128fbc3238bdd9398cf5c36b7cb6dc3b61d/README.md">README</a>.</p>
+simplified API statement is in the <a href="https://github.com/apache/accumulo/blob/1.7.0/README.md">README</a>.</p>
 <p>In some places in the API, non API types were used. Ideally public API members would only use public API types. A tool called 
 <a href="http://code.revelc.net/apilyzer-maven-plugin/">APILyzer</a> was created to find all API members that used non-API types. Many of the violations found by this tool were 
 deprecated to clearly communicate that a non API type was used. For example, a few public API methods returned a class called 
@@ -309,7 +310,7 @@ internals. Deprecating a type like this
 Accumulo internals w/o impacting the API.</p>
 <p>Created an Accumulo API regular expression for use with checkstyle. Starting with 1.7.0, projects building on Accumulo can use 
 this checkstyle rule to ensure they are only using Accumulo's public API. The regular expression can be found in the 
-<a href="https://github.com/apache/accumulo/blob/8cba8128fbc3238bdd9398cf5c36b7cb6dc3b61d/README.md">README</a>.</p>
+<a href="https://github.com/apache/accumulo/blob/1.7.0/README.md">README</a>.</p>
 <h3 id="updated-minimum-versions">Updated Minimum Versions</h3>
 <p>Apache Accumulo 1.7.0 comes with an updated set of minimum dependencies.</p>
 <ul>