[ANNOUNCE] Apache Phoenix 4.7 released

[James Taylor <ja...@apache.org>]

Apache Phoenix enables OLTP and operational analytics for Hadoop through
SQL support and integration with other projects in the ecosystem such as
Spark, HBase, Pig, Flume, and MapReduce.

We're pleased to announce our 4.7.0 release which includes:
- ACID transaction support (beta) [1]
- Enhanced secondary index consistency guarantees [2]
- Statistics improvements [3][4][5]
- Performance enhancements [6][7][8][9]
- 150+ bug fixes [10]

The release is available in source or binary form here [11].

Thanks,
The Apache Phoenix Team

[1] https://phoenix.apache.org/transactions.html
[2] https://phoenix.apache.org/secondary_indexing.html#Consistency
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2430
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2702
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2692
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1428
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2377
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2520
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1973
[10]
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12315120&version=12333998
[11] https://phoenix.apache.org/download.html