Also in favor of another Alpha. I think cursor bti should be merged soon, and there's a handful of follow ups for counters, cleanup, repair, and reads.
Jon On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 10:13 AM Jon Meredith <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a couple of TCM related bugs I need to file JIRAS for. > > First is related to a deserialization exception for state stored in > system.paxos when using PaxosV2 that requires an extension to the > serialiation format. If the system.paxos entry gets reserialized under the > new PartitionUpdate format with the same ballot it rewrites with the same > USING TIMESTAMP and can cause a tear between the version column and the > serializer used for the mutation blob. > > Second is a deadlock that can occur on the cms node responsible for > creating cms snapshots. > > I'll try and get them filed in the next few days. > > Given the serialization change I'd prefer another alpha as the change > affects a common format used by Paxos v1 and v2. > > Jon > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 7:32 PM Brandon Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 7:31 PM Tejal Joshi Chakeres <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > could library upgrades follow quickly in next minor release vs waiting >> for major release? >> >> There have been upgrades in roughly half of the 4.x and 5.x minor >> releases so I would expect that to continue. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Brandon >> >> >> >> > >> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2026 at 3:54 PM Dmitry Konstantinov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I suppose we need to fix the serialization compatibility - >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21811 >> >> We also have https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21728 >> with 6.0-alpha3 as a fixed version... >> >> >> >> I have the following things which I would like to be included to 6.0 >> (if 6.0-beta1 means only bug fixing): >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21175 - Upgrade to >> Netty 4.2; taking in account that July 1st, 2027 as EoL announced for Netty >> 4.1 >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21171 - JDK25 >> support; because JDK21 is already quite old + a switch after 6.0 release >> would be much more expensive to implement >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21460 - Support BTI >> for cursor compaction >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-20333 - Reduce >> DecayingEstimatedHistogramReservoir update cost; optionally but it gives a >> nice performance improvement >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 at 16:10, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2026, at 5:55 PM, Ekaterina Dimitrova wrote: >> >>> > Great discussion to have, thanks Stefan! >> >>> > Alpha vs Beta - we need to look into our currently 6.0 open tickets >> >>> > probably against our requirements outlined here - >> >>> > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=132320437#content/view/132320437 >> >>> > >> >>> > In the meantime, I encourage everyone knowing about something not >> yet >> >>> > in a ticket - please open one so the community gets the right >> >>> > visibility. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Yup, if you have any critical tickets that need to go in before our >> first beta remember to add `6.0-alpha` to their fixVersion, with regards to >> our establish release guidelines Ekaterina points out. >> >>> >> >>> This usage is also described under its version description: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/CASSANDRA?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin%3Arelease-page&status=unreleased >> >>> >> >>> "Placeholder for blockers to 6.0-beta1 (unresolved tickets only)" >> >>> >> >>> Currently we two tickets blocking any 6.0-beta1 >> >>> >> >>> I'm keen to cut 6.0-alpha3 and 5.0.10 asap. >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Dmitry Konstantinov >> >
