Yeah I get that from the perspective of users not running on Debian etc. However we support Debian and RHEL / building packages for that and major OS releases do not happen often so I was thinking it is somehow natural to wait for it.
I do not mind ultimately either way though, it is just tempting to wait a bit. I am wondering what the opinions of others are. Regards On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a Debian user myself, but I don't think it's a good idea to have > our release predicated upon any other project's release. That's a > slippery slope and it doesn't really seem right to delay 5.0.5 for > non-Debian users who might want some fix that 5.0.5 has sooner. > > Kind Regards, > Brandon > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM Štefan Miklošovič > <smikloso...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > There is Debian 13 (Trixie) planned to be released on 9th August. Could > we wait one more week and be sure that 5.0.5 also runs smoothly on that? > > > > In case (albeit improbably, I believe) something is wrong with it, we > will have 5.0.5 out broken on 13. It does not make rushing that when 13 is > around the corner and 5.0.4 was released so long ago anyway ... > > > > Thoughts? > > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM Štefan Miklošovič < > smikloso...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> During evaluation / testing what was staged, I have identified (1) to > be a blocker as source artifacts are not buildable because of that. > >> > >> We need to fix 20802 by committing that 5.0 (and trunk) and re-stage. > >> > >> The PR is up. > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> (1) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-20802 > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM Štefan Miklošovič < > smikloso...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> The test build of Cassandra 5.0.5 is available. > >>> > >>> sha1: 090a773e1b70bdd4722a942463fb299c08048ca8 > >>> Git: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/5.0.5-tentative > >>> Maven Artifacts: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-1407/org/apache/cassandra/cassandra-all/5.0.5/ > >>> > >>> The Source and Build Artifacts, and the Debian and RPM packages and > repositories, are available here: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/cassandra/5.0.5/ > >>> > >>> A vote of this test build will be initiated within the next couple of > days. > >>> > >>> [1]: CHANGES.txt: > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/5.0.5-tentative/CHANGES.txt > >>> [2]: NEWS.txt: > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/5.0.5-tentative/NEWS.txt >
