The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 0.8.6.
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 a maintenance/bug fix release[1]. In particular, it fixes a bug preventing rolling upgrades from the 0.7 series. Please pay attention to the release notes[2] before upgrading and let us know[3] if you were to encounter any problem. Have fun! [1]: http://goo.gl/COUVm (CHANGES.txt) [2]: http://goo.gl/3CjzD (NEWS.txt) [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA
