Thrift has been officially frozen for almost two years and unofficially for longer. Meanwhile, maintaining Thrift support through changes like 8099 has been a substantial investment.
Thus, we are officially deprecating Thrift now and removing support in 4.0, i.e. Nov 2016 if tick-tock goes as planned. (I note that some users have been unable to completely migrate away from Thrift because CQL doesn’t quite provide feature parity. The last such outstanding issue is mixing static and dynamic Thrift “columns” in a single table. We have an issue open to address this [1] and should have it committed for 3.4. In the meantime, I thought it best to give people more notice rather than less.) [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10857 -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder, http://www.datastax.com @spyced