As some of you may already be aware, 0.7.0 has been officially released. You are free to start your upgrades, though not all at once, you'll spoil your supper!
I apologize to anyone that might have noticed artifacts published as early as Sunday and were confused by the lack of announcement, I was waiting for an Official ASF Press Release and my timing sucks. https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces9 There is way too much hotness in 0.7.0 to cover here, so instead I will refer you to the following articles. http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/10/27/new-features-in-cassandra-0-7 http://www.riptano.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-secondary-indexes http://www.riptano.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-hadoop-output-cassandra http://www.riptano.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-expiring-columns http://www.riptano.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-live-schema-updates And of course, let's not forget the release notes. http://goo.gl/Bi8LD As usual you can download 0.7.0 from the website: http://cassandra.apache.org/download Users of Debian and derivatives can install from our repository: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging New for 0.7.0, Cassandra is also available from Maven Central (thanks Stephen Connolly). But wait, there's more! If you're not in a hurry to upgrade, we have a new 0.6 release as well, 0.6.9. It's an easy upgrade for anyone running 0.6.8 and contains a number of useful changes (http://goo.gl/6NIPG). The Debian repository has been extended to support an extra version so if you're accustomed to installing 0.6 from our repository, then be sure to change your suite name to 06x in sources.list. For example: deb http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian 06x main deb-src http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian 06x main That's it, thanks everyone! -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
