Awesome, 👏🏻 Great job everyone! On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 at 13:29, Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> To clarify my understanding (from some questions i got offline): > > The quarterly alphas do not impose restrictions of any kind, and are cut > off trunk. > > The end-of-year (April) alpha is cut from a new release branch, and then > we start our QA release lifecycle steps. > > ref: > - > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Release+Cadence+and+Alpha+Releases > - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Release+Lifecycle > > The second link might need some small updates/corrections ? > > > > > > On 2 Feb 2026, at 19:12, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Wonderful Josh! > > I'm happy to step in now and cut January's 6.0-alpha1 release. > > > > Then 6.0-alpha2 will be due in April. > > This is according to our agreed upon quarterly alphas and then the > process to GA starting in Apri. > > IIUC. > > > > > > > > > >> On 2 Feb 2026, at 18:44, Josh McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Update: just merged JDK21 support to trunk. No blockers from my side on > cutting 6.0-alpha1 > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2026, at 11:20 AM, Josh McKenzie wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> JDK21 support is very very close to merging. Just some final touch-up > on the docker and Jenkinsfile stuff. CI is all clear and it's rebased as of > this morning. > >>> > >>> With any luck we'll have that merged today and, pending any further > feedback on this thread, we'll be ready to cut an alpha-1. > >>> > >>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2026, at 11:43 PM, Štefan Miklošovič wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Hi guys, > >>>> > >>>> should we not coordinate the 6.0 release somehow? Does it still hold > >>>> that we are aiming to release it this April (1) ? It is two months > >>>> from now which honestly feels like "tomorrow" heh, given how this > >>>> space moves. > >>>> > >>>> We do want Java 21 in there, right? How is that going? Anything else > >>>> we should include there? What are the general vibes around 6.0 in > >>>> April? > >>>> > >>>> (1) > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Release+Cadence+and+Alpha+Releases > >>>> > >>>> Regards > >>>> > >>> > >> > > > >
