The test build of Cassandra 5.0-alpha2 is available. DISCLAIMER, this alpha release does not contain the features: Transactional Cluster Metadata (CEP-21) and Accord Transactions (CEP-15). These features are under discussion to be pushed to a 5.1-alpha1 release, with an eta still this year.
This release does contain Vector Similarity Search (CEP-30). Please also note that this is an alpha release and what that means, further info at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Release+Lifecycle sha1: ea76d148c374198fede6978422895668857a927f Git: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/5.0-alpha2-tentative Maven Artifacts: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-1317/org/apache/cassandra/cassandra-all/5.0-alpha2/ The Source and Build Artifacts, and the Debian and RPM packages and repositories, are available here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/cassandra/5.0-alpha2/ A vote of this test build will be initiated within the next couple of days. [1]: CHANGES.txt: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/5.0-alpha2-tentative/CHANGES.txt [2]: NEWS.txt: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/5.0-alpha2-tentative/NEWS.txt
