The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 6.0-alpha1.
Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. https://cassandra.apache.org/ Source and binary distributions for this version can be downloaded from: https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/ This version is a quarterly alpha release[1] on the 6.0 series. Please note, the cassandra-6.0 branch has not been created, and this release does not start the alpha quality release lifecycle guidelines. Quarterly alphas are intended only for development and testing purposes, read more here: https://lists.apache.org/thread/y3fyv596h83vwmpc85x4vpq78p1r12l4 As always, please pay attention to the release notes[2] and let us know[3] if you encounter any problem. [WARNING] Debian and RedHat package repositories have moved! Debian /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.sources.list and RedHat /etc/yum.repos.d/cassandra.repo files must be updated to the new repository URLs. For Debian it is now https://debian.cassandra.apache.org <https://debian.cassandra.apache.org/> . For RedHat it is now https://redhat.cassandra.apache.org/60x/ . Enjoy! [1]: CHANGES.txt https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-6.0-alpha1/CHANGES.txt [2]: NEWS.txt https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-6.0-alpha1/NEWS.txt [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA
