kudu git commit: Add a blog post for 1.2.0 release

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Repository: kudu
Updated Branches:
  refs/heads/gh-pages a16ab6014 -> f38e9484d


Add a blog post for 1.2.0 release

I backdated the blog post, since I didn't want to confuse people about
the release date. For 1.3.0 I hope to be more on the ball about this!

Change-Id: I0b79c75d050f972c2c70af7b5905d35e96bac811
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/5983
Reviewed-by: Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>
Tested-by: Todd Lipcon <to...@apache.org>


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Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/commit/f38e9484
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Branch: refs/heads/gh-pages
Commit: f38e9484dec05fddcabb18feb687c3a7546133db
Parents: a16ab60
Author: Todd Lipcon <to...@cloudera.com>
Authored: Mon Feb 13 12:16:34 2017 -0800
Committer: Todd Lipcon <to...@apache.org>
Committed: Mon Feb 13 20:23:21 2017 +0000

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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kudu/blob/f38e9484/_posts/2017-01-20-apache-kudu-1-2-0-released.md
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+---
+layout: post
+title: Apache Kudu 1.2.0 released
+author: Todd Lipcon
+---
+
+The Apache Kudu team is happy to announce the release of Kudu 1.2.0!
+
+The new release adds several new features and improvements, including:
+
+<!--more-->
+
+- User data such as row contents is now redacted from logging statements.
+- Kudu's ability to provide strong consistency guarantees has been substantially improved.
+- Various performance improvements in metadata management as well as optimizations for BITSHUFFLE encoding on AVX2-capable hosts.
+
+Additionally, 1.2.0 fixes a number of important bugs, including:
+
+- Kudu now automatically limits its usage of file descriptors, preventing crashes due to ulimit exhaustion.
+- Fixed a long-standing issue which could cause ext4 file system corruption on RHEL 6.
+- Fixed a disk space leak.
+- Several fixes for correctness in various edge cases.
+
+The above list of changes is non-exhaustive. Please refer to the
+[release notes](/releases/1.2.0/docs/release_notes.html)
+for an expanded list of important improvements, bug fixes, and
+incompatible changes before upgrading.
+
+* Download the [Kudu 1.2.0 source release](/releases/1.2.0/)
+* Convenience binary artifacts for the Java client and various Java
+integrations (eg Spark, Flume) are also now available via the ASF Maven
+repository.