We are pleased to announce the release of GeoWave v1.2.0!
Some recent significant developments include:
- New "FileSystem" DataStore supporting direct local, S3 and HDFS as a DataStore
 - New aggregations including a Geohash aggregation implementation
 - Update pygw to support remote gateways  
 - Kerberos Support for Accumulo
 - Expose Cassandra cluster configuration options
 - GWQL grammar update for unconventional type names
 - Now using a single instance of RocksDB for reads and writes (performance improvement)
 - Support for reverse iteration range scan by Data ID for the DataStores that support reverse iteration (RocksDB and HBase currently)
 - EMR Bootstrap supports EMR versions > 5.17.2
 - Various bug fixes to include:
 - Fixed issue with deleting when using secondary indexing
 - Fixed issue creating "spatial_temporal" index on DynamoDB store
 - Fixed issue in Redis when relying on “exact” sort key range scan with high precisions beyond Redis Score
 - Fixed DynamoDB issues from GeoServer, root cause was serialization of Regions 
 - Handled empty read in rocksdb gracefully as no-op
 - Thread-safe use of HashBiMap to avoid any race conditions
 
...and many many more, see the 
change log for details.