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+title: Spark 1.1.0 released
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+We are happy to announce the availability of <a href="{{site.url}}releases/spark-release-1-1-0.html" title="Spark Release 1.1.0">Spark 1.1.0</a>! Spark 1.1.0 is the second release in API-compatible 1.X line. It is Spark's largest release ever, with contributions from 173 developers. 
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+This release brings operational and performance improvements in Spark core including a new implementation of the Spark shuffle designed for very large scale workloads. This adds significant extensions to the newest Spark modules, MLlib and Spark SQL. Spark SQL introduces a JDBC server, byte code generation for fast expression evaluation, a public types API, and other feature and performance improvements. MLlib introduces a new statistics libary along with several new algorithms and optimizations. Spark 1.1 also builds out Spark’s Python support and adds new components to the Spark Streaming module. 
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+Visit the <a href="{{site.url}}releases/spark-release-1-1-0.html" title="Spark Release 1.1.0">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="{{site.url}}downloads.html">download</a> the release today.