changelog and authors updates for 1.7 release

Change-Id: Ie38e49915cfd233bcf00469f184cf8fce7424472

.mailmap

@@ -30,3 +30,6 @@ Soren Hansen <soren@linux2go.dk> <soren.hansen@rackspace.com>
 Ye Jia Xu <xyj.asmy@gmail.com> monsterxx03 <xyj.asmy@gmail.com>
 Victor Rodionov <victor.rodionov@nexenta.com> <vito.ordaz@gmail.com>
 Florian Hines <syn@ronin.io> <florian.hines@gmail.com>
+Jay Payne <letterj@gmail.com> <letterj@racklabs.com>
+Doug Weimer <dweimer@gmail.com> <dougw@sdsc.edu>
+Li Riqiang <lrqrun@gmail.com> lrqrun <lrqrun@gmail.com>

AUTHORS

@@ -21,29 +21,32 @@ Ionuț Arțăriși (iartarisi@suse.cz)
 Darrell Bishop (darrell@swiftstack.com)
 James E. Blair (james.blair@rackspace.com)
 Chmouel Boudjnah (chmouel@chmouel.com)
+Clark Boylan (clark.boylan@gmail.com)
 Russell Bryant (rbryant@redhat.com)
 Devin Carlen (devin.carlen@gmail.com)
 Thierry Carrez (thierry@openstack.org)
 François Charlier (francois.charlier@enovance.com)
+Ray Chen (oldsharp@163.com)
 Julien Danjou (julien.danjou@enovance.com)
 Dan Dillinger (dan.dillinger@sonian.net)
 Tom Fifield (fifieldt@unimelb.edu.au)
 Gaurav B. Gangalwar (gaurav@gluster.com)
-Anne Gentle (anne.gentle@rackspace.com)
+Anne Gentle (anne@openstack.org)
-Clay Gerrard (clay.gerrard@rackspace.com)
+Clay Gerrard (clay.gerrard@gmail.com)
 Mark Gius (launchpad@markgius.com)
-David Goetz (dpgoetz@gmail.com)
+David Goetz (david.goetz@rackspace.com)
 Jonathan Gonzalez V (jonathan.abdiel@gmail.com)
 Soren Hansen (soren@linux2go.dk)
 Derek Higgins (derekh@redhat.com)
-Florian Hines (florian.hines@gmail.com)
+Florian Hines (syn@ronin.io)
-Iryoung Jeong <iryoung@gmail.com>
+Iryoung Jeong (iryoung@gmail.com)
 Paul Jimenez (pj@place.org)
 Brian K. Jones (bkjones@gmail.com)
 Morita Kazutaka (morita.kazutaka@gmail.com)
 Josh Kearney (josh@jk0.org)
 Tsuyuzaki Kota (tsuyuzaki.kota@lab.ntt.co.jp)
 Ed Leafe (ed.leafe@rackspace.com)
+Tong Li (litong01@us.ibm.com)
 Zhong Yue Luo (lzyeval@gmail.com)
 Dragos Manolescu (dragosm@hp.com)
 Juan J. Martinez (juan@memset.com)
@@ -57,9 +60,11 @@ Russ Nelson (russ@crynwr.com)
 Maru Newby (mnewby@internap.com)
 Colin Nicholson (colin.nicholson@iomart.com)
 Eamonn O'Toole (eamonn.otoole@hp.com)
+Constantine Peresypkin (constantine@litestack.com)
 Dan Prince (dprince@redhat.com)
 Felipe Reyes (freyes@tty.cl)
-Victor Rodionov (vito.ordaz@gmail.com)
+Li Riqiang (lrqrun@gmail.com)
+Victor Rodionov (victor.rodionov@nexenta.com)
 Brent Roskos (broskos@internap.com)
 Michael Shuler (mshuler@rackspace.com)
 Andrew Clay Shafer (acs@parvuscaptus.com)
@@ -71,6 +76,7 @@ Rainer Toebbicke (Rainer.Toebbicke@cern.ch)
 Fujita Tomonori (fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp)
 Kapil Thangavelu (kapil.foss@gmail.com)
 Dean Troyer (dtroyer@gmail.com)
+Kota Tsuyuzaki (tsuyuzaki.kota@lab.ntt.co.jp)
 Vincent Untz (vuntz@suse.com)
 Daniele Valeriani (daniele@dvaleriani.net)
 Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
@@ -78,5 +84,6 @@ Conrad Weidenkeller (conrad.weidenkeller@rackspace.com)
 Doug Weimer (dweimer@gmail.com)
 Cory Wright (cory.wright@rackspace.com)
 Ye Jia Xu (xyj.asmy@gmail.com)
-Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@kotori.zaitcev.us)
 Alex Yang (alex890714@gmail.com)
+Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@kotori.zaitcev.us)
+ning_zhang (ning@zmanda.com)

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,3 +1,73 @@
+swift (1.7.0)
+
+    * Use custom encoding for ring data instead of pickle
+
+      Serialize RingData in a versioned, custom format which is a combination
+      of a JSON-encoded header and .tostring() dumps of the
+      replica2part2dev_id arrays.  This format deserializes hundreds of times
+      faster than rings serialized with Python 2.7's pickle (a significant
+      performance regression for ring loading between Python 2.6 and Python
+      2.7).  Fixes bug 1031954.
+
+      The new implementation is backward-compatible; if a ring
+      does not begin with a new-style magic string, it is assumed to be an
+      old-style pickle-dumped ring and is handled as before.  So new Swift
+      code can read old rings, but old Swift code will not be able to read
+      newly-serialized rings.
+
+    * Do not use pickle for serialization in memcache, but JSON
+
+      To avoid issues on upgrades (unability to read pickled values, and cache
+      poisoning for old servers not understanding JSON), we add a
+      memcache_serialization_support configuration option, with the following
+      values:
+
+       0 = older, insecure pickle serialization
+       1 = json serialization but pickles can still be read (still insecure)
+       2 = json serialization only (secure and the default)
+
+      To avoid an instant full cache flush, existing installations should
+      upgrade with 0, then set to 1 and reload, then after some time (24
+      hours) set to 2 and reload. Support for 0 and 1 will be removed in
+      future versions.
+
+    * Update proxy-server StatsD logging. This is a significant change to the
+      existing StatsD intigration. Docs for this feature can be found in
+      doc/source/admin_guide.rst.
+
+    * Improved swift-bench to allow random object sizes and better usability
+
+    * Updated probe tests
+
+    * Replicator removal metrics are now generated on a per-device basis
+
+    * Made object replicator locking more optimistic
+
+    * Split proxy-server code into separate modules
+
+    * Fixed bug where swift-recon would not report all unmounted drives
+
+    * Fixed issue where a LockTimeout may have caused a file descriptor to
+      not be closed properly
+
+    * Fixed a bug where an error may have caused the proxy to stop returning
+      data to a client
+
+    * Fixed bug where expirer would get confused by odd deletion times
+
+    * Fixed a bug where auto-creating accounts would return an error if they
+      were recreated after being deleted
+
+    * Fix when rate_limit_after_segment kicks in
+
+    * fallocate() failures properly return HTTPInsufficientStorage from
+      object-server before reading from wsgi.input, allowing the proxy
+      server to quickly error_limit that node
+
+    * Fixed error with large object manifests and x-newest headers on GET
+
+    * Various other minor bug fixes and improvements
+
 swift (1.6.0)
 
     * Removed bin/swift and swift/common/client.py from the swift repo. These