Release 1.4.0 Milestone 2

1.4.0 M2

• (pulled) Changed default query timeout from 12 seconds to 2 minutes (SPARKC-220)
• (pulled) Add a configurable delay between subsequent query retries (SPARKC-221)
• (pulled) All 1.3.0-M2 and 1.3.0-RC1 changes.

1.3.0 RC1

• Fixed NoSuchElementException when using UDTs in SparkSQL (SPARKC-218)

1.3.0 M2

• Support for loading, saving and mapping Cassandra tuples (SPARKC-172)
• Support for mapping case classes to UDTs on saving (SPARKC-190)
• Table and keyspace Name suggestions in DataFrames API (SPARKC-186)
• Removed thrift completely (SPARKC-94)
  • removed cassandra-thrift.jar dependency
  • automatic split sizing based on system.size_estimates table
  • add option to manually force the number of splits
  • Cassandra listen addresses fetched from system.peers table
  • spark.cassandra.connection.(rpc|native).port replaced with spark.cassandra.connection.port
• Refactored ColumnSelector to avoid circular dependency on TableDef (SPARKC-177)
• Support for modifying C* Collections using saveToCassandra (SPARKC-147)
• Added the ability to use Custom Mappers with repartitionByCassandraReplica (SPARKC-104)
• Added methods to work with tuples in Java API (SPARKC-206)
• Fixed input_split_size_in_mb property (SPARKC-208)
• Fixed DataSources tests when connecting to an external cluster (SPARKC-178)
• Added Custom UUIDType and InetAddressType to Spark Sql data type mapping (SPARKC-129)
• Removed CassandraRelation by CassandraSourceRelation and Added cache to
  CassandraCatalog (SPARKC-163)