kudu git commit: Add backdated announcement blog post for 1.5

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Add backdated announcement blog post for 1.5

Change-Id: I301db21a8c5e75b2cbe47b3992094d7b1eca7731
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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: cab08ebf1aa105a556f764d2919d122fc3ae0431
Parents: 9ab1cdf
Author: Dan Burkert <da...@apache.org>
Authored: Wed Sep 13 11:39:09 2017 -0700
Committer: Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>
Committed: Wed Sep 13 20:45:38 2017 +0000

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+---
+layout: post
+title: Apache Kudu 1.5.0 released
+author: Dan Burkert
+---
+
+The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.5.0!
+
+Apache Kudu 1.5.0 is a minor release which offers several new features,
+improvements, optimizations, and bug fixes.
+
+Highlights include:
+
+<!--more-->
+
+- optimizations to improve write throughput and failover recovery times
+- the Raft consensus implementation has been made more resilient and flexible
+  through "tombstoned voting", which allows Kudu to self-heal in more edge-case
+  scenarios
+- the number of threads used by Kudu servers has been further reduced, with
+  additional reductions planned for the future
+- a new configuration dashboard on the web UI which provides a high-level
+  summary of important configuration values
+- a new `kudu tablet move` command which moves a tablet replica from one tablet
+  server to another
+- a new `kudu local_replica data_size` command which summarizes the space usage
+  of a local tablet
+- all on-disk data is now checksummed by default, which provides error detection
+  for improved confidence when running Kudu on unreliable hardware
+
+The above list of changes is non-exhaustive. Please refer to the
+[release notes](/releases/1.5.0/docs/release_notes.html)
+for an expanded list of important improvements, bug fixes, and
+incompatible changes before upgrading.
+
+* Download the [Kudu 1.5.0 source release](/releases/1.5.0/)
+* Convenience binary artifacts for the Java client and various Java
+integrations (eg Spark, Flume) are also now available via the ASF Maven
+repository.