The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of the final version of Apache Cassandra 2.1.0.
Cassandra 2.1.0 brings a number of new features and improvements including (but not limited to): - Improved support of Windows. - A new incremental repair option[4, 5] - A better row cache that can cache only the head of partitions[6] - Off-heap memtables[7] - Numerous performance improvements[8, 9] - CQL improvements and additions: User-defined types, tuple types, 2ndary indexing of collections, ...[10] - An improved stress tool[11] Please refer to the release notes[1] and changelog[2] for details. Both source and binary distributions of Cassandra 2.1.0 can be downloaded at: http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ As usual, a debian package is available from the project APT repository[3] (you will need to use the 21x series). The Cassandra team [1]: http://goo.gl/k4eM39 (CHANGES.txt) [2]: http://goo.gl/npCsro (NEWS.txt) [3]: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging [4]: http://goo.gl/MjohJp [5]: http://goo.gl/f8jSme [6]: http://goo.gl/6TJPH6 [7]: http://goo.gl/YT7znJ [8]: http://goo.gl/Rg3tdA [9]: http://goo.gl/JfDBGW [10]: http://goo.gl/kQl7GW [11]: http://goo.gl/OTNqiQ
