We have found and fixed (CASSANDRA-2829) a regression of 0.8, due to CASSANDRA-2419, causing commit log segments to be potentially deleted while still dirty. There has been a number of other important bug fixes since 0.8.2, including the fix of "remove token".
I thus propose the following artifacts for release as 0.8.3. SVN: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/branches/cassandra-0.8@r1153193 Artifacts: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-021/org/apache/cassandra/apache-cassandra/0.8.3/ Staging repository: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-021/ The artifacts as well as a debian package are also available here: http://people.apache.org/~slebresne/ The vote will be open for 72 hours (longer if needed). [1]: http://goo.gl/Qe1TF (CHANGES.txt) [2]: http://goo.gl/TVkjJ (NEWS.txt)