The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 2.2.0-beta1.
This release is *not* production ready. We are looking for testing of existing and new features. If you encounter any problem please let us know [1]. Cassandra 2.2 features major enhancements such as: * Resume-able Bootstrapping * JSON Support [4] * User Defined Functions [5] * Server-side Aggregation [6] * Role based access control Read [2] and [3] to learn about all the new features. Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download section: http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ Enjoy! -The Cassandra Team [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA [2]: http://goo.gl/MyOEib (NEWS.txt) [3]: http://goo.gl/MBJd1S (CHANGES.txt) [4]: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL-2.2.html#json [5]: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL-2.2.html#udfs [6]: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL-2.2.html#udas