Hello Everybody,

I am happy to announce release 0.14.0 of Hawkular Metrics. This release is anchored by the launch of a developer oriented distribution to help developers that integrate with Hawkular Metrics.


Here is a list of major changes in this release:

1) Developer Distribution
   * First release of a Hawkular Metrics distribution oriented towards developers that integrate with Hawkular Metrics
   * This is an all inclusive distribution that developers can just download and run to easily test integration code 
   * The distribution is available in two flavors :
       - Hawkular Metrics Web API + Wildfly 10 (requires an external C* cluster)
       - Hawkular Metrics Web APi + Wildfly 10 + Embedded Cassandra Server
   * The second distribution is available for installation on OS X via brew
        $ brew tap hawkular/hawkular
        $ brew install hawkular-metrics-ec
    * To download and use on other platforms:
        - Web API + WildFly 10 - http://red.ht/1LX4aUH
        - Web API + WildFly 10 + Embedded Cassandra - http://red.ht/1RxaI9i
    * For more details: HWKMETRICS-364, HWKMETRICS-366

2) Upgraded Cassandra Driver
   * The Cassandra driver has been update to version 3.0.0
   * This is part of the planned upgrade to Cassandra 3.x
   * For more details: HWKMETRICS-359

3) RxJava Improvements
   * Resolved an issue where the RX computation threads could block while iterating over data results
   * For more details: HWKMETRICS-357


Github Release:
https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-metrics/releases/tag/0.14.0

JBoss Nexus Maven artifacts:
http://origin-repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/public/org/hawkular/metrics/

Jira release tracker:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HWKMETRICS/fixforversion/12329845


Hawkular Metrics Clients
  * Ruby: https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-client-ruby
  * Python: https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-client-python
  * Go: https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-client-go


A big "Thank you" goes to John Sanda, Thomas Segismont, Matt Wringe, Mike Thompson, Michael Burman, and Heiko Rupp for their project contributions.


Thank you,
Stefan Negrea

Software Engineer