My goal is to have docs ready for Beta so +1 from me on this
> On Apr 10, 2026, at 8:42 AM, Josh McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> +1 here. No major blockers that I know of.
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2026, at 5:37 PM, Mick wrote:
>> We said* we would, are we ready to branch cassandra-6.0 and cut 6.0-alpha2 ?
>>
>> There's a bit to do and often a few new unknowns each time around. Unless
>> someone else is willing to step in and do it, I'll need to do it this week,
>> or wait til June…
>>
>> *) We have agreed that we cut our first proper alphas in April (and
>> branching off trunk), so this should be to plan.
>>
>> This would kick off the alpha release lifecycle definition/expectations.
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Release+Lifecycle
>>
>>
>>
>> > On 4 Apr 2026, at 00:00, Mick <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > 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 <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/>
>> > <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
>> >
>> >
>>
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