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Pithos: the cassandra-backed S3 compatible object store, release 0.7.0.

Highlights of this release include range support when retrieving objects. Improved metadata storage when creating
or copying objects. A reporter framework to recent notifications for storage events and support for paging when
large numbers of objects are present in a bucket.

With this release a number of new clients have been tested and documented, including but not limited to:

• S3fs
• WAL-e for PostgreSQL WAL storage
• A modified plugin to store elasticsearch snapshots on S3

Full Changelog:

• Document tradeoffs. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Document the bucket policy call. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Add a way to parse rfc822 dates. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Docs. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Do not preserve x-amz-metadata-directive. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Use provided multipart def when completing uploads. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Coerce multipart def to expected output. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Add parser for complete multipart upload payload. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Dummy procedures for put & delete bucket policy. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Unconditionally close streams. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Add documentation. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Document multiple object deletion. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Add tests for malformed ranges. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Add test for endless range. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Parse ranges when provided for a get. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Parse ranges when provided. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Some client libraries play around with case. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Do not try to delete non-existing versions. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Add an operation to report original size. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Avoid unnecessary copies. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Some clients are really picky about their dates! [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Report header dates in RFC822 format. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Correct types. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Stop jetty from messing around with data. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Assoc a request id on errors as well. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Correct rationale for chunk retrieval. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Stop lying. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Remove dead get-chunk-q arity. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Simplify stream-copy-part-block. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Correct subresource. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Enable multiple object delete. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Add parser for multiple object delete syntax. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Allow copy part from object. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Correct status when deleting objects. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Metadata: also preserve content-{disposition,language} headers. [Vincent Bernat]
• Preserve more headers. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Document local access as well. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Add s3fs to the list of known working clients. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Preserve content-type as well. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Report content-type in head object. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]
• Preserve x-amz-meta headers. [Pierre-Yves Ritschard]