If we want to stay true to our new 6 months release cycle we should start getting serious about the release of 1.2. For that, it would definitively help to get wider testing and besides, all the issues marked 1.2.0-beta1 on JIRA has been resolved. I thus propose the following artifacts for release as 1.2.0-beta1.
sha1: 60bf68caa98566ce09e76d501b14d45b46c26209 Git: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/1.2.0-beta1-tentative Artifacts: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-016/org/apache/cassandra/apache-cassandra/1.2.0-beta1/ Staging repository: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-016/ 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/hp9vY (CHANGES.txt) [2]: http://goo.gl/cf5bE (NEWS.txt)