adding 0.3.0 release note

docs/docs/cpp.md

@@ -418,6 +418,23 @@ Status HashPartition(std::shared_ptr<cylon::Table> &table,
  */
 Status Sort(std::shared_ptr<cylon::Table> &table, int sort_column, std::shared_ptr<Table> &output);
 
+/**
+ * Distributed sort the table according to the given column
+ * @param sort_column
+ * @return new table sorted according to the sort column
+ */
+struct SortOptions {
+  bool ascending;
+  uint32_t num_bins;
+  uint64_t num_samples;
+
+  static SortOptions Defaults();
+};
+Status DistributedSort(std::shared_ptr<cylon::Table> &table,
+                       int sort_column,
+                       std::shared_ptr<Table> &output,
+                       SortOptions sort_options = SortOptions::Defaults());
+
 /**
  * Filters out rows based on the selector function
  * @param table

docs/docs/pub.md

@@ -24,3 +24,13 @@ year={2020}
   year={2020}
 }
 ```
+
+- A Fast, Scalable, Universal Approach For Distributed Data Reductions
+```
+@article{perera2020fast,
+  title={A Fast, Scalable, Universal Approach For Distributed Data Reductions},
+  author={Perera, Niranda and Abeykoon, Vibhatha and Widanage, Chathura and Kamburugamuve, Supun and Kanewala, Thejaka Amila and Wickramasinghe, Pulasthi and Uyar, Ahmet and Maithree, Hasara and Lenadora, Damitha and Fox, Geoffrey},
+  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.14596},
+  year={2020}
+}
+```

docs/docs/release/cylon_release_0.3.0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+---
+id: 0.3.0
+title: Cylon Release 0.3.0
+sidebar_label: Cylon Release 0.3.0
+---
+
+Cylon 0.3.0 adds the following features. Please note that this release may not be backward
+ compatible with previous releases.
+
+## Major Features
+
+### C++
+
+- Adding order-by and distributed table sort operations
+- Multiple partitioning schemes (modulo, hash and range)
+- C++ API refactoring
+- Performance improvements in the existing C++ API
+
+### Python (Pycylon)
+
+- Exposing table operators similar to Pandas (28 new operators).
+  - Comparison operators
+  - Logical Operators
+  - Math operators
+  - Null/NA value filtering and filling
+  - Filtering and updating (including inplace ops)
+  - Schema refactoring
+  - Experimental indexing abstract
+- Distributed Data sorting Python bindings
+- Adding new examples for updated operations. (https://github.com/cylondata/cylon/tree/master/python/examples)
+
+
+### Java (JCylon)
+
+- Performance improvements
+
+You can download source code from [Github](https://github.com/cylondata/cylon/releases)
+
+## Examples
+
+- [C++ examples](https://github.com/cylondata/cylon/tree/0.3.0/cpp/src/examples)
+- [Python examples](https://github.com/cylondata/cylon/tree/0.3.0/python/examples)
+- [Java examples](https://github.com/cylondata/cylon/tree/0.3.0/java/src/main/java/org/cylondata/cylon/examples)
+
+## License
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0