Looking at CHANGES.txt, we've got 30+ changes since the last alpha. I think it's a good time to cut another alpha release. The biggest item here is Python 3 support for cqlsh. It would be good to get as much feedback as possible on this since it's such a critical tool.
Here's what's changed: Include finalized pending sstables in preview repair (CASSANDRA-15553) Reverted to the original behavior of CLUSTERING ORDER on CREATE TABLE (CASSANDRA-15271) Correct inaccurate logging message (CASSANDRA-15549) Add documentation of dynamo (CASSANDRA-15486) Added documentation for Guarantees (CASSANDRA-15482) Added documentation for audit logging (CASSANDRA-15474) Unset GREP_OPTIONS (CASSANDRA-14487) Added streaming documentation (CASSANDRA-15477) Update to Python driver 3.21 for cqlsh (CASSANDRA-14872) Added bulk loading documentation (CASSANDRA-15480) Updated overview documentation (CASSANDRA-15483) Added CDC and speculative retry documentation to DDL section (CASSANDRA-15492) Fix missing Keyspaces in cqlsh describe output (CASSANDRA-15576) Fix multi DC nodetool status output (CASSANDRA-15305) Added documentation covering new Netty based internode messaging (CASSANDRA-15478) Add documentation of hints (CASSANDRA-15491) updateCoordinatorWriteLatencyTableMetric can produce misleading metrics (CASSANDRA-15569) Added documentation for read repair and an example of full repair (CASSANDRA-15485) Make cqlsh and cqlshlib Python 2 & 3 compatible (CASSANDRA-10190) Added documentation for Full Query Logging (CASSANDRA-15475) Added documentation for backups (CASSANDRA-15479) Documentation gives the wrong instruction to activate remote jmx (CASSANDRA-15535) Improve the description of nodetool listsnapshots command (CASSANDRA-14587) allow embedded cassandra launched from a one-jar or uno-jar (CASSANDRA-15494) Update hppc library to version 0.8.1 (CASSANDRA-12995) Limit the dependencies used by UDFs/UDAs (CASSANDRA-14737) Make native_transport_max_concurrent_requests_in_bytes updatable (CASSANDRA-15519) Cleanup and improvements to IndexInfo/ColumnIndex (CASSANDRA-15469) Potential Overflow in DatabaseDescriptor Functions That Convert Between KB/MB & Bytes (CASSANDRA-15470) Merged from 3.0: Run evictFromMembership in GossipStage (CASSANDRA-15592) Merged from 2.2: Allow EXTRA_CLASSPATH to work on tar/source installations (CASSANDRA-15567) Thoughts? Jon
