New Features and Improvements:

• Partitions mapping configuration for RPC clients.
• Support for using a custom cluster view in messaging channels and RPC clients.
• Added the Hekate.State#SYNCHRONIZING status to support services that require synchronization with remote nodes before switching the node to the UP state.
• Performance optimization of messaging and RPC operations.
• Extended API of CodecService with methods encode/decode to/from byte arrays.
• Added 'hekate.enable=true/false' in order to support disabling of Hekate integration via Spring Boot configuration properties.

Bug fixes:

• Node not being able to leave the cluster while accepting a join request from a non-reachable node.
• Trigger re-join if a joining node is marked as failed/down by the cluster.
• Broadcast operations not taking an affinity key into account during routing.
• CoordinationMember not canceling active requests during completion of coordination context.
• Fixed NPE whe discarding deferred messages in NettyClient.

Dependency Upgrades:

• Upgraded to Netty 4.1.26.Final.