This is a pre-release for 4.8.0, a maintenance release with new features. It adds minor tweaks to topology recovery retry compared to 4.8.0.RC2 (see #403). It is compatible with 4.7.x. All users of the 4.x.x and 3.6.x series are encouraged to test this version.

Note that as of this release, default DNS resolution on the server hostname is disabled when using TLS (#400). This avoids interfering with hostname verification (#394). DNS resolution can be easily re-enabled by passing in a DnsRecordIpAddressResolver instance to one the ConnectionFactory#newConnection methods.

Thanks to @vikinghawk for his contribution on this pre-release.

Changes between 4.7.0 and 4.8.0.RC2

Make it easier to enable hostname verification when TLS is enabled

GitHub issue: #394

Disable DNS resolution when using TLS

GitHub issue: #400

Add filter to skip some entities on topology recovery

GitHub issue: #383

Add optional retry logic to topology recovery

GitHub issue: #387

Address parser is incapable of handling IPv6 address literals

GitHub issue: #385

Improve JSON RPC support by using Jackson

GitHub issue: #378

Add equals and hashCode to generated classes

GitHub issue: #377

Add dedicated executor to close connections in NIO mode

GitHub issue: #380