Release Notes - Mnemonic - Version 0.4.0-incubating

Bug

    [MNEMONIC-150] - Remove the warnings about incompatibility of pointer assignments
    [MNEMONIC-151] - Accept null transtable for volatile memory service
    [MNEMONIC-152] - no return for size() in common.c
    [MNEMONIC-169] - Centos not found in docker 1.3

Improvement

    [MNEMONIC-107] - Use MNEMONIC_HOME Environment Variable
    [MNEMONIC-112] - cleaning up org_apache_mnemonic_service_computingservice_internal_PrintServiceImpl.c
    [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-139] - Ensure the pool is opened for each of native calls.
    [MNEMONIC-145] - Remove 3rd Maven repository from pom
    [MNEMONIC-146] - valHandler would receive the address of its processing node
    [MNEMONIC-149] - Verify the consistency and correctness of sorting results
    [MNEMONIC-171] - Trigger runall script during post-build steps

New Feature

    [MNEMONIC-94] - Durable native sorting service
    [MNEMONIC-95] - Create a Durable Set
    [MNEMONIC-103] - Durable native sorting service testcases
    [MNEMONIC-104] - Create a Durable Map
    [MNEMONIC-105] - Add a set of testcases for Durable Map
    [MNEMONIC-106] - Define the interface of durable in-memory stream
    [MNEMONIC-140] - Provide available size for application to use
    [MNEMONIC-141] - Provide accurate object size for application to use
    [MNEMONIC-144] - Create a script to bundle signed portable artifacts
    [MNEMONIC-153] - add a sys-vmem service
    [MNEMONIC-154] - Add a data generator for sorting bench
    [MNEMONIC-155] - Support mode, input and output parameters for sort-bench
    [MNEMONIC-157] - Add regular sorting workload for bench workload
    [MNEMONIC-158] - Add durable native computing sorting workload for bench workload
    [MNEMONIC-159] - add a selective mode parameter to the perform() of DNCS
    [MNEMONIC-160] - add optimized 1d long bubble sorting
    [MNEMONIC-162] - Add a bench workload for sorting
    [MNEMONIC-163] - Collect outputs of sort-bench to a log file
    [MNEMONIC-164] - Create a run script for sort-bench

Task

    [MNEMONIC-81] - Deploy all portable artifacts on Apache maven repository
    [MNEMONIC-97] - Create a testcase of object managed buffer and chunk
    [MNEMONIC-109] - Create a testcase to manage durable object on volatile memory service
    [MNEMONIC-147] - Add cmd of durable native computing sort to README
    [MNEMONIC-148] - Make runall script support durable native computing sort testcase
    [MNEMONIC-161] - add classic logback logger dependency
    [MNEMONIC-165] - Add sys-vmem service to Durable Memory Service Comparison Table in README
    [MNEMONIC-166] - Add run sort bench section to README
    [MNEMONIC-167] - Add mnemonic-sort-bench to source-assembly
    [MNEMONIC-168] - Add mnemonic-sys-vmem-service to source-assembly