Release Notes

In this release, we mainly merged the dubbox branch contributed by dangdang that highlights the following features (also see #1001):

• REST support (by integrating resteasy)
• High-performance serialization framework: kryo, FST
• Embedded tomcat support

We tried to keep the original branch of the way, while making the following small adjustments:

• Upgraded the versions of some dependencie: kryo, FST and tomcat
• Removed the changes to core RPC protocol to avoid compatible problem

Important Notes

• Dependencies
  As all new features in this version are optional, dependencies added to this version are not transitive, so you don't have to worry about introducing any dependency problem when using the new version. This in turn means you have to add the necessary dependencies to your project whenever you decide to use any new features in this release.