v1.1.0.rc0

These are the significant new features that have been added over the last nine prereleases:

• Automatic peer discovery: when connecting the client will automatically discover the whole Cassandra cluster and connect to all nodes in the same data centers as the seed nodes.
• Automatic reconnection: when nodes are restarted, fail and come back again, or new nodes join the cluster, the client will automatically connect to them.
• Configurable number of connections per node: a client can optionally connect multiple times to each node, in order to increase the maximum number of concurrent requests.
• Optional per-request timeouts.
• Configurable default consistency per client.
• Prepared statements now use all connections and will automatically be prepared on new connections.
• The client can log significant events to a user-defined logger.

There has also been many bug fixes, especially in the serialization and deserialization code, and optimizations and general speed improvements.