We've fixed pretty much all know issues since beta2 (remains 2 issues tagged 1.2.0 but none are really critical if they don't make it anyway) so so I propose the following artifacts for release as 1.2.0-rc1.
sha1: 2f187c92033b5b3f689d75375308dbf4dbac515f Git: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/1.2.0-rc1-tentative Artifacts: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-100/org/apache/cassandra/apache-cassandra/1.2.0-rc1/ Staging repository: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-100/ The artifacts as well as the 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/8RW6q (CHANGES.txt) [2]: http://goo.gl/ltVIw (NEWS.txt)