Release Notes for Storm 1.0.6

JIRA issues addressed in the 1.0.6 release of Storm. Documentation for this release is available at the Apache Storm project site.

Improvement

[STORM-2451] - windows storm.cmd does not set log4j2 config file correctly by default
[STORM-2690] - resurrect invocation of ISupervisor.assigned() & make Supervisor.launchDaemon() accessible
[STORM-2751] - Remove AsyncLoggingContext from Supervisor
[STORM-2764] - HDFSBlobStore leaks file system objects
[STORM-2771] - Some tests are being run twice
[STORM-2786] - Ackers leak tracking info on failure and lots of other cases.
[STORM-2853] - Deactivated topologies cause high cpu utilization
[STORM-2856] - Make Storm build work on post 2017Q4 Travis Trusty image
[STORM-2870] - FileBasedEventLogger leaks non-daemon ExecutorService which prevents process to be finished
[STORM-2879] - Supervisor collapse continuously when there is a expired assignment for overdue storm
[STORM-2892] - Flux test fails to parse valid PATH environment variable
[STORM-2894] - fix some random typos in tests
[STORM-2912] - Tick tuple is being shared without resetting start time and incur side-effect to break metrics
[STORM-2918] - Upgrade Netty version