On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 7:31 PM Tejal Joshi Chakeres <[email protected]> wrote: > > could library upgrades follow quickly in next minor release vs waiting for > major release?
There have been upgrades in roughly half of the 4.x and 5.x minor releases so I would expect that to continue. Kind Regards, Brandon > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2026 at 3:54 PM Dmitry Konstantinov <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I suppose we need to fix the serialization compatibility - >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21811 >> We also have https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21728 with >> 6.0-alpha3 as a fixed version... >> >> I have the following things which I would like to be included to 6.0 (if >> 6.0-beta1 means only bug fixing): >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21175 - Upgrade to Netty >> 4.2; taking in account that July 1st, 2027 as EoL announced for Netty 4.1 >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21171 - JDK25 support; >> because JDK21 is already quite old + a switch after 6.0 release would be >> much more expensive to implement >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21460 - Support BTI for >> cursor compaction >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-20333 - Reduce >> DecayingEstimatedHistogramReservoir update cost; optionally but it gives a >> nice performance improvement >> >> >> >> On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 at 16:10, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2026, at 5:55 PM, Ekaterina Dimitrova wrote: >>> > Great discussion to have, thanks Stefan! >>> > Alpha vs Beta - we need to look into our currently 6.0 open tickets >>> > probably against our requirements outlined here - >>> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=132320437#content/view/132320437 >>> > >>> > In the meantime, I encourage everyone knowing about something not yet >>> > in a ticket - please open one so the community gets the right >>> > visibility. >>> >>> >>> Yup, if you have any critical tickets that need to go in before our first >>> beta remember to add `6.0-alpha` to their fixVersion, with regards to our >>> establish release guidelines Ekaterina points out. >>> >>> This usage is also described under its version description: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/CASSANDRA?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin%3Arelease-page&status=unreleased >>> >>> "Placeholder for blockers to 6.0-beta1 (unresolved tickets only)" >>> >>> Currently we two tickets blocking any 6.0-beta1 >>> >>> I'm keen to cut 6.0-alpha3 and 5.0.10 asap. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dmitry Konstantinov
