• C* 4.0-beta compatibility (SPARKC-615)
• Storage Attached Index (SAI) support (SPARKC-621)
• Java Driver upgraded to 4.10 (SPARKC-637)
• Asynchronous page fetching (SPARKC-619)
• Cassandra Direct Join in the Spark SQL (SPARKC-613)
• Fix: ContinuousPaging settings are ignored (SPARKC-606)
• Fix: spark.cassandra.input.readsPerSec doesn't work for CassandraJoinRDD (SPARKC-627)
• Fix: repartitionByCassandraReplica relocates data to the local node only (SPARKC-642)
• Fix: Custom ConnectionFactory properties are ignored in per-cluster setups (SPARKC-635)