Cassandra 5 & Support for JDK 17

Hello. I have several applications that I am looking to move to JDK 17 and want to understand the plans for Cassandra to support this version of Java. I’ve read that version 5 may well support JDK17 and that it may be available by the end of this year. Are these firm plans? Are there

Re: Cassandra 5 & Support for JDK 17

Hello Sean, Cassandra 5.0 is indeed intended to run on Java 17. In fact, I just tried running 5.0-alpha , and it does indeed run on Java 17.0.8. There is a Jira ticket out there for tracking Java 17 issues with 5.0: CASSANDRA-16895

Town Hall update

Due to a last-minute change, we have had to cancel this month's Apache Cassandra Town Hall which was going to feature Josh McKenzie speaking about the state of the Cassandra development community. We are working on finalising the speaker for September's Town Hall and will have the details up on