YugabyteDB v1.2 has been released

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We are happy to announce the availability of YugabyteDB v1.2.0!

You can read the official announcement of this release. You can also look at the details of the key commits that have gone into this release.

Theme of this release is all about PostgreSQL! YSQL is a distributed PostgreSQL that can scale-out , tolerate failures and has no single point of failure . Support has been added for many Postgres functionality including:

DDL statements

  • CREATE, DROP and TRUNCATE tables

Data types

  • All primitive types including numeric types (integers and floats), text data types, byte arrays, date-time types
  • Support for UUID and SERIAL
  • Support for JSONB

DML statements

  • INSERT, UPDATE, SELECT and DELETE statements
  • JOIN, WHERE clauses, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, LIMIT, OFFSET and SEQUENCES

Transactions

  • ABORT, ROLLBACK, BEGIN, END, and COMMIT

Miscellaneous

  • Expressions: Built-in functions and operators
  • VIEWs
  • EXPLAIN PLAN
  • PREPARE-BIND-EXECUTE
  • JDBC Support