Release Notes - Mnemonic - Version 0.5.0-incubating

Bug

    [MNEMONIC-173] - Missing exit code in build-tools' scripts
    [MNEMONIC-174] - Make bench scripts conform to MNEMONIC_HOME as well
    [MNEMONIC-176] - Missing License info header in benchcommom.py
    [MNEMONIC-178] - Not support doclint option for Javadoc 1.7 or below
    [MNEMONIC-179] - The year in NOTICE file not get updated
    [MNEMONIC-180] - Missing throw for NoSuchElementException();
    [MNEMONIC-205] - Adding Durability to resized Memory Allocations
    [MNEMONIC-210] - Fix malformed HTML
    [MNEMONIC-211] - Release script run failed

Improvement

    [MNEMONIC-107] - Use MNEMONIC_HOME Environment Variable
    [MNEMONIC-137] - Suppress Git errors if source code is not managed by Git for runall.sh
    [MNEMONIC-138] - Unpack source package to verify in release.sh
    [MNEMONIC-177] - Add findbugs plugins to detect bug patterns
    [MNEMONIC-184] - A function to instantiate a list of classes
    [MNEMONIC-185] - Hide contained durable object factories for creation
    [MNEMONIC-186] - Add convenient funtions to shift durable parameters
    [MNEMONIC-188] - Verify all partitions that generated by hadoop writer in test case
    [MNEMONIC-192] - Optimize the code of MneConfigHelper
    [MNEMONIC-193] - Extract core functions from MneMapreduceRecordWriter
    [MNEMONIC-194] - Extract core functions from MneMapreduceRecordReader
    [MNEMONIC-195] - Specify the base name of output partitions
    [MNEMONIC-199] - Store output datasets on different folders
    [MNEMONIC-200] - Rewrite runall script in Python
    [MNEMONIC-212] - Make runTestCases.py possible to run independently

New Feature

    [MNEMONIC-104] - Create a Durable Map
    [MNEMONIC-181] - Add a new module for hadoop integration
    [MNEMONIC-182] - Implement MneOutputFormat & MneMapreduceRecordWriter
    [MNEMONIC-183] - Implement MneInputFormat & MneMapreduceRecordReader
    [MNEMONIC-189] - Expose list handlers from MneReader and MneWriter for Hadoop Durable Computing (HDCS)
    [MNEMONIC-197] - Add Managed ByteBuffer access support
    [MNEMONIC-198] - Add Managed data chunk access support
    [MNEMONIC-201] - Upgrade managed buffer to DurableBuffer
    [MNEMONIC-202] - Upgrade managed chunk to DurableChunk

Task

    [MNEMONIC-187] - Add testcase of hadoop mapreduce module
    [MNEMONIC-190] - Update README to reflect added module mnmeonic-hadoop
    [MNEMONIC-191] - Add Mnemonic Hadoop Mapreduce test case to runall script
    [MNEMONIC-206] - Include the source code of mnemonic-hadoop into release package
    [MNEMONIC-207] - Add new tast case runs to test.conf