Hi Mick, Thanks reviewing this and for the feedback! I've proposed some updates to our release instructions to incorporate all of this feedback and we'll make sure we get this right for our next release. We'd probably benefit from scripting some of this; I see the sidecar and analytics projects recently contributed some release automation to cassandra-builds as well, so will see if we can follow up and contribute something similar.
Andy On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > - user@ > > Thanks Andy! > > Quick feedback (i'd normally give this over dm, but given the growing > number of incoming drivers i think this should be shared). > > Part of the release finalisation and announcement should include > > 1. updating our downloads page: > https://cassandra.apache.org/_/download.html > (and other other doc pages, as needed) > > 2. remove older patch versions from > https://archive.apache.org/dist/cassandra/cassandra-java-driver/ > > For the server these things are included in the reminder here: > https://github.com/apache/cassandra-builds/blob/trunk/cassandra-release/finish_release.sh#L274-L287 > . The majority of the needed tasks have been adopted and done, thanks Andy > and everyone on the drivers subproject for making this happen. > > > Looks like you have already done (1), just haven't pushed it from > asf-staging to asf-site. > https://cassandra.staged.apache.org/_/download.html > > Also, we want to reference > https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/cassandra-java-driver/4.19.1/ > instead of > https://dlcdn.apache.org/cassandra/cassandra-java-driver/4.19.1/ > (because you are pointing to the folder that also contains the > sigs/checksums, and folk should access those through downloads.a.o) > > > > > On 22 Oct 2025, at 00:09, Tolbert, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache > Cassandra Java Driver version 4.19.1. > > > > This release[1] includes a large number of bug fixes and improvements > representing the work of many contributors. Let us know if you encounter > any issues[2]. > > > > The Source release and Binary convenience artifacts are available here: > https://dlcdn.apache.org/cassandra/cassandra-java-driver/4.19.1/ > > > > The Maven artifacts can be found at: > https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/cassandra > > > > These will be mirrored to other repositories. > > > > Thanks to everyone who made this release possible! > > > > Andy > > > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/cassandra-java-driver/releases/tag/4.19.1 > > [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/CASSJAVA/issues > >
