Pycassa

* Support for adding/updating/dropping Keyspaces and CFs in pycassa.connection.Connection
* get_range() optimization and more configurable batch size
* batch get_indexed_slices() similar to get_range()
* Reorganized pycassa logging
* More efficient packing of data types
* Fix error condition that results in infinite recursion
* Limit pooling retries to only appropriate exceptions
* Use Thrift API 19.3.0

* Automatically detect if a column family is a standard column family or a super column family
* multiget_count() support
* Allow preservation of key order in multiget() if an ordered dictionary is used
* Convert timestamps to v1 UUIDs where appropriate
* pycassaShell documentation
* Use Thrift API 17.1.0

* Connection Pooling support: pycassa.pool
* Started moving logging to pycassa.logger
* Use Thrift API 14.0.0

* Autopack on CF’s default_validation_class
* Use Thrift API 13.0.0

* Added batch mutations interface: pycassa.batch
* Made bundled thrift-gen code a subpackage of pycassa
* Don’t attempt to reencode already encoded UTF8 strings

* Added batch_insert()
* Redifined insert() in terms of batch_insert()
* Fixed UTF8 autopacking
* Convert datetime slice args to uuids when appropriate
* Changed how thrift-gen code is bundled
* Assert that the major version of the thrift API is the same on the client
and on the server
* Use Thrift API 12.0.0