0.6.0 Release Candidate 1

WARNING: THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE AND IS NOT INTENDED FOR DOWNSTREAM USE.

This source is a candidate for release version. Please see issue #542 for testing instructions and where to leave your feedback.

Compared to the previous release (0.5.0), this candidate contains:

For the next release, 0.6.0, the following items have already been merged:

• Memcached bingings were added: #518, #535
• Added variance calculation of histogram latency reporting: #90
• Add a Google Datastore client: #500
• Record latency of successful and failed operations separately: #507
• Added support for Vim and Emacs in .gitignore: #514
• There was a long history with S3 database bindings: #372, #512,
• Added editorconfig for easy style conformance: #520
• Cassandra: Added large deprecation message: #537
• Cassandra 2: Added better property handling: #536
• Improved bin/ycsb script: #526
• Kudu: #528, #540
• Tarantool: #545 - Update Tarantool driver version