The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 5.0-alpha2.
This release contains Vector Similarity Search (CEP-30). http://cassandra.apache.org/ Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download section: http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ This version is an alpha preview release[1] on the 5.0 series. As always, please pay attention to the release notes[2] and let us know[3] if you were to encounter any problem. Please also note what our definition of an alpha release means, further info at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Release+Lifecycle DISCLAIMER, this alpha release does not contain the features: Transactional Cluster Metadata (CEP-21) and Accord Transactions (CEP-15). These features are under discussion to be pushed to a 5.1-alpha1 release, with an eta still this year. Enjoy! [1]: CHANGES.txt https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-5.0-alpha2/CHANGES.txt [2]: NEWS.txt https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-5.0-alpha2/NEWS.txt [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA