To be clear, the incompatibility we've talked about does *not* concern any of the 1.0 releases (you'll want to refer NEWS file for any details on the upgrade path for these versions). The incompatibility here is only between 1.1.0-beta1 and 1.1.0-beta2.
-- Sylvain On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are currently using 1.0.0-2 version. Do we still need to migrate to the > latest release of 1.0 before migrating to 1.1? Looks like incompatibility is > only between 1.0.3-1.0.8. > > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Benoit Perroud <ben...@noisette.ch> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the quick feedback. >> >> I will drop the schema then. >> >> Benoit. >> >> >> Le 27 mars 2012 14:50, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> a écrit : >> > Actually, there was a few changes to the on-disk format of schema >> > between beta1 and beta2 so upgrade is not supported between those two >> > beta versions. >> > Sorry for any inconvenience. >> > >> > -- >> > Sylvain >> > >> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Benoit Perroud <ben...@noisette.ch> >> > wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> Thanks a lot for the release. >> >> I just upgraded my 1.1-beta1 to 1.1-beta2, and I get the following >> >> error : >> >> >> >> INFO 10:56:17,089 Opening >> >> /app/cassandra/data/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hc-18 >> >> (74 bytes) >> >> INFO 10:56:17,092 Opening >> >> /app/cassandra/data/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hc-17 >> >> (486 bytes) >> >> ERROR 10:56:17,306 Exception encountered during startup >> >> java.lang.NullPointerException >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:163) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:120) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.getString(JdbcUTF8.java:77) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.compose(JdbcUTF8.java:97) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type.compose(UTF8Type.java:35) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.cql3.UntypedResultSet$Row.getString(UntypedResultSet.java:87) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromSchemaNoColumns(CFMetaData.java:1008) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromSchema(CFMetaData.java:1053) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.deserializeColumnFamilies(KSMetaData.java:261) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.fromSchema(KSMetaData.java:242) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.loadFromTable(DefsTable.java:158) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadSchemas(DatabaseDescriptor.java:514) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:182) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:353) >> >> at >> >> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:106) >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks for your support, >> >> >> >> Benoit. >> >> >> >> >> >> Le 27 mars 2012 11:55, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> a écrit >> >> : >> >>> The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of the second >> >>> beta for >> >>> the future Apache Cassandra 1.1. >> >>> >> >>> Note that this is beta software and as such is *not* ready for >> >>> production use. >> >>> >> >>> The goal of this release is to give a preview of what will become >> >>> Cassandra >> >>> 1.1 and to get wider testing before the final release. All help in >> >>> testing >> >>> this release would be therefore greatly appreciated and please report >> >>> any >> >>> problem you may encounter[3,4]. Have a look at the change log[1] and >> >>> the >> >>> release notes[2] to see where Cassandra 1.1 differs from the previous >> >>> series. >> >>> >> >>> Apache Cassandra 1.1.0-beta2[5] is available as usual from the >> >>> cassandra >> >>> website (http://cassandra.apache.org/download/) and a debian package >> >>> is >> >>> available using the 11x branch (see >> >>> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging). >> >>> >> >>> Thank you for your help in testing and have fun with it. >> >>> >> >>> [1]: http://goo.gl/nX7UL (CHANGES.txt) >> >>> [2]: http://goo.gl/TB9ro (NEWS.txt) >> >>> [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA >> >>> [4]: user@cassandra.apache.org >> >>> [5]: >> >>> http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/cassandra-1.1.0-beta2 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> sent from my Nokia 3210 >> >> >> >> -- >> sent from my Nokia 3210 > >