Hey folks, As we start to get ready to feature freeze trunk for 4.0, it's going to be important to get a lot of community feedback. This is going to be a big release for a number of reasons.
* Virtual tables. Finally a nice way of querying for system metrics & status * Streaming optimizations ( https://cassandra.apache.org/blog/2018/08/07/faster_streaming_in_cassandra.html ) * Groundwork for strongly consistent schema changes * Optimizations to internode communcation * Experimental support for Java 11 I (and many others) would like Cassandra to be rock solid on day one if its release. The best way to ensure that happens is if people provide feedback. One of the areas we're going to need a lot of feedback on is on how things work with Java 11, especially if you have a way of simulating a real world workload on a staging cluster. I've written up instructions here on how to start testing: http://thelastpickle.com/blog/2018/08/16/java11.html Java 11 hasn't been released yet, but that doesn't mean it's not a good time to test. Any bugs we can identify now will help us get to a stable release faster. If you rely on Cassandra for your business, please take some time to participate in the spirit of OSS by helping test & provide feedback to the team. Thanks everyone! --- Jon Haddad Principal Consultant, The Last Pickle
