As Mick and Yifan say, we would need to merge CASSANDRA-18085 to fill the gap. I looked into that and it does not apply cleanly / has some merge conflicts.
In CASSANDRA-18085, Andres started a thread (1) which gets complicated pretty fast and honestly I have not read it all yet to give any meaningful conclusions where to go from there. (1) https://lists.apache.org/thread/nkm04oo9m60o7dcjzyrll7rzdqzzo1gy On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 11:35 AM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 at 09:43, Sam Tunnicliffe <s...@beobal.com> wrote: > >> 100% Option 1. Once it's out in GA release we're stuck with it so any >> short term disruption to adopters of pre-release versions is a trivial >> price to pay. > > > > Sam, Jeremiah, Jeff, Jon, > > we need some clarity on this. > > To remove MAXWRITETIME (CASSANDRA-18078) we must now (as Yifan notes) > first add CASSANDRA-18085. > > 18085 was slated for 5.x > Are we really going to both a) remove an API that was already released in > a beta, and b) add in a new improvement into an rc ? > > This is the only remaining issue blocking us from cutting a 5.0-rc1. > > >
