A second vote in the same day!? I know what you've just though: santa comes early this year. But no, you're not dreaming: CASSANDRA-3472 (0.8.8) re-enabled cross-DC efficient writes that was mistakenly disabled since pretty much forever, but turns out this code was broken (CASSANDRA-3577,3585). Since that is basically a regression, I propose the following artifacts for release as 0.8.9 to fix it.
SVN: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/branches/cassandra-0.8@r1212938 Artifacts: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-319/org/apache/cassandra/apache-cassandra/0.8.9/ Staging repository: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-319/ The artifacts as well as a debian package are also available here: http://people.apache.org/~slebresne/ The vote will be open for 72 hours (longer if needed). [1]: http://goo.gl/2HThC (CHANGES.txt) [2]: http://goo.gl/GhcPi (NEWS.txt)