The Apache Accumulo project is proud to announce its 1.7.0 release. Apache Accumulo 1.7.0 is a significant release that includes many important milestone features which expand the functionality of Accumulo. These include features related to security, availability, and extensibility. The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Apache Zookeeper, and Apache Thrift. The release artifacts are available at http://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/ and the release notes, which cover in detail the notable changes, are available at http://accumulo.apache.org/release_notes/1.7.0.html. Thanks. - The Apache Accumulo Team