1.0.8 has been release more than a month ago, we made quite a few bug fixes and don't have any major outstanding issue open. I thus propose the following artifacts for release as 1.0.9.
sha1: 4457839b9da623d9d4a090fa444614c35d39bb4c Git: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/1.0.9-tentative Artifacts: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-001/org/apache/cassandra/apache-cassandra/1.0.9/ Staging repository: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-001/ The artifacts as well as the 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/CsEDg (CHANGES.txt) [2]: http://goo.gl/4ByoR (NEWS.txt)