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 Apache Ignite python thin client
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+0.5.0
+--------------------------------
+* Added transaction API support (sync and async versions, async version supports only python 3.7+)
+* Added ExpiryPolicy (TTL) support
+* Improved performance of asyncio version by reimplementing network code using asyncio transports and protocols
+* Enabled partition awareness by default
+* Fixed handling collections of binary objects
+
 0.4.0
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 * Added partition awareness support