Cut 2.3.0-RC1.

Authors, News and Thanks update.
Thanks to everyone who made this release possible.
This marks a feature freeze, only bug fixes and minor tweaks till
the final cut.

Signed-off-by: Chris Larsen <clarsen@yahoo-inc.com>

AUTHORS

@@ -24,5 +24,6 @@ Chris Larsen <clarsen575@gmail.com>
 David Bainbridge <dbainbridge@zenoss.com>
 Geoffrey Anderson <geoff@geoffreyanderson.net>
 Ion Savin <comp_@gmx.net>
+Jonathan Creasy <jonathan@ghostlab.net>
 Nicholas Whitehead <whitehead.nicholas@gmail.com>
 Will Moss <wmoss@bu.mp>

NEWS

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 OpenTSDB - User visible changes.
 
-* Version 2.3.0 RC1 (2016-03-28)
+* Version 2.3.0 RC1 (2016-05-02)
 
 Noteworthy Changes:
   - Introduced option --max-connection/tsd.core.connections.limit to set the maximum number
@@ -13,15 +13,24 @@ Noteworthy Changes:
   - Added MetaDataCache plugin api
   - Added timeshift() function (#175)
   - Now align downsampling to Gregorian Calendar (#548, #657)
-  - Added support for latest Java versions
-  - Added NONE aggregator
+  - Added None aggregator to fetch raw data along with first and last aggregators to 
+    fetch only the first or last data points when downsampling.
   - Added script to build OpenTSDB/HBase on OSX (#674)
-  - Added First/Last Downsampler
+  - Add cross-series expressions with mathematical operators using Jexl
   - Added query epxressions (alias(), scale(), absolute(), movingAverage(), highestCurrent(),
     highestMax(), timeShift(), divide(), sum(), difference(), multiply()) (#625)
+  - Add a Unique ID assignment filter API for enforcing UID assignment naming conventions.
+  - Add a whitelist regular expression based UID assignment filter
+  - Add a time series storage filter plugin API that allows processing time series data
+    and determining if it should be stored or not.
+  - Allow using OpenTSDB with Google's Bigtable cloud platform or with Apache Cassandra
+
 Bug Fixes:
   - Some improperly formatted timestamps were allowed (#724)
-  - removed stdout logging from packaged logback.xml files (#715)
+  - Removed stdout logging from packaged logback.xml files (#715)
+  - Restore the ability to create TSMeta objects via URI
+  - Restore raw data points (along with post-filtered data points) in query stats
+  - Built in UI will now properly display global annotations when the query string is passed
   - 
 * Version 2.2.0 (2016-02-14)
 

THANKS

@@ -13,11 +13,16 @@ Adrien Mogenet <adrien.mogenet@gmail.com>
 Alex Ioffe <deusaquilus@gmail.com>
 Andre Pech
 Andrey Stepachev <octo47@gmail.com>
+Andy Flury
+Anna Claiborne
 Aravind Gottipati <aravind.gottipati@gmail.com>
 Arvind Jayaprakash <work@anomalizer.net>
 Berk D. Demir <bdd@mindcast.org>
 Bikrant Neupane
 Bryan Zubrod <bzubrod@adknowledge.com>
+Camden Narzt
+Can Zhang
+Carlos Devoto
 Chris McClymont <chris@mcclymont.it>
 Cristian Sechel 
 Christophe Furmaniak
@@ -28,7 +33,9 @@ Gabriel Nicolas Avellaneda
 Guenther Schmuelling <schmuell@pepperdata.com>
 Hari Krishna Dara
 Hong Dai Thanh
+Hugo M Fernandes
 Hugo Trippaers <opensource@strocamp.net>
+Isaiah Choe
 Ivan Babrou
 Jacek Masiulaniec <jacek.masiulaniec@gmail.com>
 Jari Takkala <jari.takkala@betfair.com>
@@ -42,6 +49,7 @@ Johan Zeeck <johan.zeeck@tre.se>
 Johannes Meixner
 Jonathan Works <jonathan.works@threattrack.com>
 Josh Thomas <josh@kickbackpoints.com>
+Kevin Bowling
 Kieren Hynd <kieren.hynd@ticketmaster.co.uk>
 Kimoon Kim <kimoon@pepperdata.com>
 Kris Beevers <beevek@gmail.com>
@@ -65,6 +73,7 @@ Nikhil Benesch <me@designbynikhil.com>
 Nitin Aggarwal
 Paula Keezer <paula.keezer@gmail.com>
 Peter Gotz <peter.s.goetz@googlemail.com>
+Ping Yong
 Pradeep Chhetri <pradeep.chhetri89@gmail.com>
 Rajesh G
 Ryan Berdeen <ryan@ryanberdeen.com>
@@ -81,5 +90,6 @@ Tristan Colgate-McFarlane <tcolgate@gmail.com>
 Tony Landells <tony.landells@gmail.com>
 Utkarsh Bhatnagar
 Vasiliy Kiryanov <vasiliy.kiryanov@gmail.com>
+Vitaliy Fuks
 Yulai Fu
 Zachary Kurey

configure.ac

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2012  The OpenTSDB Authors.
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2016  The OpenTSDB Authors.
 #
 # This library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # along with this library.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 # Semantic Versioning (see http://semver.org/).
-AC_INIT([opentsdb], [2.3.0-SNAPSHOT], [opentsdb@googlegroups.com])
+AC_INIT([opentsdb], [2.3.0-RC1], [opentsdb@googlegroups.com])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])