我们很高兴的宣布 RethinkDB 1.8 发布了，现在下载http://rethinkdb.com/docs/install/
该版本包含如下特性和改进：
ReQL improvements
Dates and times are natively supported, and there are over 20 new commands for creating, manipulating, and querying them.
Nested documents are easier to work with in update and merge. (We also extended support for pluck's nested document syntax to without, group_by, with_fields, and has_fields.)
Server improvements
Server uses 8x less disk space.
Tables support efficient ordering by primary or secondary indexes.
Javascript evaluation is more efficient and reliable.
Cross-network cluster operation is much easier.
完整改进包括修复 超过90个 bug、功能和增强。
RethinkDB 设计用来存储 JSON 文档的分布式数据库，可通过简单操作实现多机分布式存储。支持表的联合和分组查询。
来自:开源中国社区
