I feel like we are ready for a beta 1 since we are just bug-finding now. It's an improved signal to the community to look more earnestly at production workloads.
For me, I have one data loss bug and a couple of TCM bug fixes found in testing. Working on merging those soon. Patrick On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 4:36 AM Štefan Miklošovič <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to know what is the plan for the next quarterly release > of Cassandra 6.0. > > We are after two alphas, the next release, naturally, is either yet > one more alpha (6.0-alpha3) or beta1 (6.0-beta1). > > 6.0-alpha2 was released on 7th August 2026, so the next one should be > around mid November. > > From my side, I am working on the stabilisation of Zstd dicts, adding > fuzz tests and so on, we also identified some small issues with > constraints de/ser in TCM, all of this should be done until then. > > Other than that, I think there are still some improvements in BTI > cursor compactions to be added (right? genuinely not sure, correct me > if I am wrong). > > Are other areas of the code-based beta-ready or does it warrant yet > one more alpha? > > How do you feel about this? alpha3 or beta1? > > Regards >
