What Abe says makes sense to me: disabled by default in the initial release, and change to enabled by default for the subsequent releases if this feature is proven to be stable and if agreed in a mailing list discussion.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 10:30 AM Rishabh Saraswat < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am currently implementing CEP-59, which introduces In-Band > Connection Draining to allow nodes to gracefully disconnect clients > during maintenance, thereby eliminating ReadTimeoutExceptions during > node restarts. > > To ensure the smoothest possible upgrade path for existing users, I am > proposing that we ship the feature disabled by default (but optionally > enabled in cassandra_latest.yaml). > > Wanted the community's opinion on "disabled-by-default" approach for > the initial release, or is there a preference for enabling it by > default immediately? > > Rishabh >
