In fact there is a branch for it noted in the ticket, from which a patch could
be cut instantly, but there doesn't seem to be any point to doing that until
the feature freeze is over. Is there any sense of timing on that? I've seen a
few discussions about release process for 4.x on this list,
I'd like to raise some attention for the following 2 tickets, they're
patch-ready and deployed on all our production clusters:
* CASSANDRA-15098: "Endpoints no longer owning tokens are not removed for
vnode"
For vNode cluster, the replaced node may not be removed from gossiper
(and system.peers,
