Hey there folks - just a smidge past time for our biweekly check-in. Cassandra 4.0.1 was released on 2021-09-07 with a critical fix for gossip in large clusters.
We had some good discussion on tidying up our test failure situation on the project. We now have a clean filter showing the known test failures:https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12350869 If you're new to the project and looking for the best place to get started, look no further. For others active on the project, if you see a test failure during your CI runs before commit, please 1) Check this list first and see if it's a known issue to save yourself time, and if not 2) Create a new JIRA ticket to capture that failure w/the test name and output with Bug Category "Correctness - Test Failure" So what's happened in the past 2 weeks on the project? First, let's cover the dev list: https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@cassandra.apache.org:lte=2w: Highlights: * Ekaterina's got a good conversation going about the config on the project. This is a great place to dive into a conversation and help shape the project if you're an operator with experience in the field configuring clusters. * Ekaterina's also driving discussion on JDK 17 support (thanks!) * The vote for CEP-13, Adding a DenyListing partitions feature passed (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-13%3A+Denylisting+partitions) * We have a discussion going on about the identities of releases, subject "Defining which code changes target which release types". Please chime in if you have a perspective there - our release strategy here will influence the certification requirements of different release types for our users so how we do this will have pretty big ramifications for our users. * The discussion thread for General Purpose Transactions (https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r33b3040ad0cd874b0ac53d290b6f4f2ecba19a0309c861fc2ee3336d%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E) got a lot of traction and interest. * The vote for CEP-14 Paxos Improvements passed (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-14%3A+Paxos+Improvements) Phew. So we're clearly talking a lot which is great - how's the code looking? https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2175 4.0.1: 16 issues closed between 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 4 new issues opened, 1 of which is closed and 2 in review 3 issues need reviewers, 1 needs committer attention (https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2161) 4.1.0: 10 issues closed 5 new issues opened, 2 of which are already closed 14 issues need reviewers, 1 of which needs committer attention(https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2161) [Visually] 4.0.2 Flow Diagram: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&projectKey=CASSANDRA&view=reporting&chart=cumulativeFlowDiagram&swimlane=1214&column=2116&column=2117&column=2118&column=2130&column=2133&column=2124&column=2127&column=2119&days=90 4.1.0 Flow Diagram: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&projectKey=CASSANDRA&view=reporting&chart=cumulativeFlowDiagram&swimlane=1215&column=2116&column=2117&column=2118&column=2130&column=2133&column=2124&column=2127&column=2119&days=90 Hideous URL's aside, there's a lot of conversation going on, a lot of code changes, improvements, and bugfixes going on, and the project's looking incredibly healthy. Thanks everyone for being a part of this and don't hesitate to drop me a line on things you'd like to see in these updates that are missing! ~Josh
