The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 5.0-alpha1.
DISCLAIMER, this alpha release does not contain the expected 5.0 features: Vector Search (CEP-30), Transactional Cluster Metadata (CEP-21) and Accord Transactions (CEP-15). These features will land in a later alpha release. Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. http://cassandra.apache.org/ Downloads of source and binary distributions are found here: https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/5.0-alpha1/ https://debian.cassandra.apache.org/pool/main/c/cassandra/ https://redhat.cassandra.apache.org/50x/ 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 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 . For RedHat it is now https://redhat.cassandra.apache.org/50x/ . Enjoy! [1]: CHANGES.txt https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-5.0-alpha1/CHANGES.txt [2]: NEWS.txt https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-5.0-alpha1/NEWS.txt [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA
