The JanusGraph Technical Steering Committee is excited to announce the release of JanusGraph 0.6.0.

JanusGraph is an Apache TinkerPop enabled property graph database with support for a variety of storage and indexing backends. Thank you to all of the contributors.

Notable new features in this release include:

• Upgrade to TinkerPop 3.5.1
• Java 11 support
• Spark 3 support
• Added mixed index usage for count and has("propertyKey") queries
• Optimized adjacency checks with unique index
• Index selection algorithms optimization. Added possibility to configure index selection algorithms.
• Index repair jobs improvements
• General index construction optimizations
• Optimized LevenshteinDistance computation used in Fuzzy predicates
• Update DataStax Cassandra driver to 4.13.0 version
• Update Lucene / Solr to 8.9.0
• Metrics collection improvements
• Many general optimizations in core
• GraphBinary serialization format support
• Added new schema maker and improvement of previous schema makers
• Added DataStax request logger
• Replaced GremlinServer with JanusGraphServer
• Added GRPC server to janusgraph-server for basic schema management
• Transactions improvements
• Improved inmemory storage backend
• Added support for Amazon Managed KeySpace
• Enhanced profiling
• Added many new configurations to better control storage and index backends
• Added configuration to use barrier size as batch size limit
• Added CacheVertex::refresh method to allow clearing vertex cache
• Added negations to all text predicates
• Added exists clause to negated Text predicates
• Make ExecutorService configurable for parallel backend queries and CQL Store Manager
• Make CQL executor service usage optional
• Accept optional custom hadoop config in MapReduceIndexManagement
• Added multi-query and pre-fetch options to transaction builder
• Added possibility to configure internal Cassandra driver

The release artifacts can be found at this location:
    https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.6.0

A full binary distribution is provided for user convenience:
        https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/download/v0.6.0/janusgraph-full-0.6.0.zip
    https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/milestone/17?closed=1

Oleksandr Porunov