GeoMesa 1.2.3 includes 40+ improvements and bug fixes that have been addressed.

Important Notes

GeoMesa Accumulo Runtime Jar Required for Ingest

• The GeoMesa distributed runtime jar now must be installed on the cluser and configured for VFS classloading prior to ingest
• Supports pre-computed bounds and statistics

Highlights

Pre-computed statistics & Query Planning

• GeoMesa now stores statistics about the spatiotemporal bounds and distribution of data at ingest time.
• Statistics can be used for more accurate index selection during query planning.
• Pre-computed statistics are available via a REST API that can be configured using the GeoMesa-Ext CatalogListener. 

Keywords Stored in GeoMesa

• Keywords can be added to the datastores metadata either at SFT creation in Scala or typesafe config or added via command-line tools. 
• Useful for configuring stealth keywords

Multi-Level Attribute Visibility

• Draft/first-pass per-attribute visibility controls.
• Attributes within a simple feature can have different visibility levels

Data SFT/Converters In Tools

• Common SFT/Converter TypeSafe config definitions now ship with tools (e.g. twitter, geolife, geonames, etc.)
• Scripts for downloading data are included in tools

Native API View 

• Domain objects in the Native API can now leverage GeoMesa secondary indexing

Other Notable Changes

• Kafka Datastore Fixes - Fixed isssue for CQL queries with multiple spatial filters
• Spark/Scala 2.10 Support - Updates to GeoMesaSpark and continuing work to support Spark/Scala 2.10
• Updated Documentation - All supported data stores have their own chapters in the User Manual, with installation and GeoServer configuration information. Additional libraries are described in a modules and libraries chapter in the User Manual.
  
• Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Scripts -  EMR scripts are now included in the tools

Upgrading

• GeoMesa 1.2.3 supports upgrade in place from versions 1.1.0.rc.7 through 1.2.2 
• Shutdown the geoserver and upgrade the distributed runtime in accumulo as well as the geomesa jars in the webserver