That looks like https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17132 + https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/b6f61e850c8cfb1f0763e0f15721cde8893814b5
I suspect this needs to be reverted, at least in 4.0.x, and it definitely deserved a NEWS.txt entry (and ideally some period of deprecation/warning). On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 2:09 PM James Brown <jbr...@easypost.com> wrote: > It looks like the otc_coalescing_strategy config key is no longer > supported in cassandra.yaml in 4.0.2, despite this not being mentioned > anywhere in CHANGES.txt or NEWS.txt. > > Attempting to upgrade a test cluster from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2 failed with *"Invalid > yaml. Please remove properties [otc_coalescing_strategy] from your > cassandra.yaml*" > > Is this change intentional? > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 1:40 AM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > >> The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache >> Cassandra version 4.0.2. >> >> Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right >> choice when you need scalability and high availability without >> compromising performance. >> >> 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 bug fix release[1] on the 4.0 series. As always, >> please pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you >> were to encounter any problem. >> >> Enjoy! >> >> [1]: CHANGES.txt >> >> https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=CHANGES.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-4.0.2 >> [2]: NEWS.txt >> https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-4.0.2 >> [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA >> > > > -- > James Brown > Engineer >