# \[ANNOUNCE\] YCSB 0.8.0 Release

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announce-ycsb-0-8-0-release/47461>\
**Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\
**Created:** [April 15, 2016, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announce-ycsb-0-8-0-release/47461 "2016-04-15T06:08:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmatser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@cmatser](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cmatser)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announce-ycsb-0-8-0-release/47461/1 "2016-04-15T06:08:15Z")

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On behalf of the development community, I am pleased to announce the release of YCSB 0.8.0. With the help of other Elasticsearch community developers we are continuing to make enhancements to this binding.

Highlights:

- Amazon S3 improvments including proper closing of the S3Object
- Apache Cassandra improvements including update to DataStax driver 3.0.0, tested with Cassandra 2.2.5
- Apache HBase10 improvements including synchronization for multi-threading
- Core improvements to address future enhancements
- Elasticsearch improvements including update to 2.3.1 (latest stable version)
- Orientdb improvements including a readallfields fix

Full release notes, including links to source and convenience binaries:

> **[brianfrankcooper/YCSB](https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/releases/tag/0.8.0)**
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> YCSB - Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark

This release covers changes from the last 1 month.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announce-ycsb-0-8-0-release/47461/2 "2017-07-06T13:44:18Z")

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