DataStax Java Driver: 3.0.0 released!

The Java driver team has released version 3.0.0, which includes full compatibility with Cassandra 2.2 and 3.0, custom codecs, support for four new CQL types (DATE, TIME, SMALLINT, TINYINT), and various improvements to the API. This release is not binary compatible with older versions due to breaking changes, all of which are documented in the upgrade guide. The driver now supports Cassandra's latest features, such as materialized views, user-defined functions and aggregates, and secondary indexes. Additionally, new exception types have been added for server-side errors introduced in Cassandra 2.2, and custom payloads can be sent alongside a query to convey additional metadata when using a custom query handler on the server side. The "extras" module has also been introduced, containing additions to the driver that target a more specific audience or cannot make into the core API due to backwards-compatibility reasons.