Platform update on August 25th

Scheduled for release on August 25th, 2015, the upcoming platform update introduces several software updates, including Cassandra's upgrade to version 2.2.0, which deprecates cassandra-cli in favor of cqlsh, and Chromedriver's new version 2.16, compatible with Chrome versions 42-45. Other updates include Git 2.5.0, MongoDB 2.6.11, MySQL 5.6.26, Oracle JDK 8u51, PHP versions 5.4.44, 5.5.28, and 5.6.12, Qt 5.4.1, Redis 3.0.3, and RethinkDB 2.1.1, which adds major improvements and automatic failover support via Raft. Users can test the platform by selecting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS v1508 from the Project Settings, with the final release incorporating changes like Oracle JDK 8u60 and the addition of Ruby 2.2.3. Further details can be found in the platform changelog, and discussions are encouraged on Discord.