This release has two notable features:

1. Binary type support. BINARY, VARBINARY, TINYBLOB, BLOB, MEDIUMBLOB, LONGBLOB now supported.
2. dolt diff --cached now supported

Other than that, this release contains performance improvements and bug fixes.

Merged PRs

• 1252: go/store/nbs: s3_table_reader: Parallelize loading large table file indexes.
• 1251: Implement dolt diff --cached command
  Made this competing PR with the open source contributed so I could commit bats test changes in conjunction.
• 1249: corrected sql row for init commit row in dolt_commit_ancestors table
• 1245: fixes panic in the atomic package
  The atomic package has the following limitation on 32-bit platforms:

  On both ARM and x86-32, it is the caller's responsibility to arrange for 64-bit alignment of 64-bit words accessed atomically. The first word in a variable or in an allocated struct, array, or slice can be relied upon to be 64-bit aligned.

• 1242: projected column fixes
  For both indexed and unindexed tables when the engine would call WithProjection on our sql.Table implementation we would return a new sql.Table that embedded the old one and had a member which was the list of projected columns. Then, when sql.Table.PartitionRows was called, it was called on the embedded object directly and the projected columns were not accessible.
• 1240: Skip And Less Optimizations
• 1239: Decrease the number of allocations for indexed reads
• 1237: Fixed a grammatical mistake in the man page for dolt conflicts resolve.
• 1233: fix panic when key does not exist in table
• 1230: change panic to error for '.' in Dataset name
  fix for #1144
• 1229: added sysbench scripts
• 1228: go/store/nbs: WithoutConjoiner() to configure NBS to not conjoin.
• 1221: cli output fix
  fixes issues where printf formatting was being unintentionally applied for some cli output
• 1220: Print pipeline fix
  Fixes issue #1219 by not calling on an iterator after it's already returned EOF
• 1218: remotestorage: Fix download aggregation to correctly aggregated based on prior chunk in batch, not first chunk.
• 1217: Restored proper DATE functionality
  For DATE, we accidentally forgot to add the time truncation during the perf improvements, so this adds it back in.
• 1215: Write to root on every loop of sql shell.
  This pr fixes a bug where the root gets written on every loop of the dolt sql shell.
• 1214: Automated release notes generation
• 1213: Read tuples from sequences directly without conversion to Values
  Read tuples from sequences directly instead of using values.
• 1212: decrease allocations made while reading values
• 1210: Vinai/refactor docs
  This pr refactors DocsReadWriter to simplify the interface. It then removes many of the methods in environment.go that are related to the d
  rw interface.
• 1209: Added binary types to dolt
  Added BINARY, VARBINARY, TINYBLOB, BLOB, MEDIUMBLOB, LONGBLOB types.
• 271: add ability to remove rules
• 269: Fix: not check tcp6 socket state while ipv6 is disabled
  If ipv6 is disabled on the system, tcp6 will not exist in the /proc/net dir.
  So open /proc/net/tcp6 will produce the error open /proc/net/tcp6: No such file or directory, we should not always check tcp6 socket state(
  unless it is opened).
• 268: Bug fix for #1219

Closed Issues

• 1219: show indexes crash
• 1211: Refactor Docs methods out of environment.go