The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 0.8.2.
Cassandra is a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. You can read more here: http://cassandra.apache.org/ Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download section: http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ This version is primarily a bug fix release[1] (it fixes a regression of 0.8.1 in particular that made hinted handoff not be delivered correctly) and upgrade is highly encouraged. Please however always pay attention to the release notes[2] before upgrading, If you were to encounter any problem, let us know[4]. Have fun! [1]: http://goo.gl/z61nT (CHANGES.txt) [2]: http://goo.gl/Swjk5 (NEWS.txt) [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA
