The 2.1.0 release is the first minor release for GeoMesa version 2. New features include:
- Support for Spark 2.3 and improved Pyspark interoperability
- Type inference for auto ingestion of data
- Kafka 'event-time' message ordering and support for log compaction
- Improved support for 'wide' schemas (ones with many attributes)
- Apache Kudu data store implementation
- FileSystem data store support for non-point geometries