The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of the first beta for the future Apache Cassandra 2.0.0.
Let me first stress 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 2.0 and to get wider testing before the final release. As such, it is likely not bug free but all help in testing this beta would be greatly appreciated and will help make 2.0 a solid release. So please report any problem you may encounter[3,4] with this release and have a look at the change log[1] and release notes[2] to see where Cassandra 2.0 differs from the previous series. Apache Cassandra 2.0.0-beta1[5] is available as usual from the cassandra website (http://cassandra.apache.org/download/) and a debian package is available using the 20x branch (see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging). Thank you for your help in testing and have fun with it. [1]: http://goo.gl/TjQGd (CHANGES.txt) [2]: http://goo.gl/K4QsX (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-2.0.0-beta1
