We said* we would, are we ready to branch cassandra-6.0 and cut 6.0-alpha2 ?
There's a bit to do and often a few new unknowns each time around. Unless someone else is willing to step in and do it, I'll need to do it this week, or wait til June… *) We have agreed that we cut our first proper alphas in April (and branching off trunk), so this should be to plan. This would kick off the alpha release lifecycle definition/expectations. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Release+Lifecycle > On 4 Apr 2026, at 00:00, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra > version 6.0-alpha1. > > Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice when > you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. > > https://cassandra.apache.org/ > > Source and binary distributions for this version can be downloaded from: > https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/ > > This version is a quarterly alpha release[1] on the 6.0 series. Please note, > the cassandra-6.0 branch has not been created, and this release does not > start the alpha quality release lifecycle guidelines. Quarterly alphas are > intended only for development and testing purposes, read more here: > https://lists.apache.org/thread/y3fyv596h83vwmpc85x4vpq78p1r12l4 > > As always, please pay attention to the release notes[2] and let us know[3] if > you encounter any problem. > > [WARNING] Debian and RedHat package repositories have moved! Debian > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.sources.list and RedHat > /etc/yum.repos.d/cassandra.repo files must be updated to the new repository > URLs. For Debian it is now https://debian.cassandra.apache.org > <https://debian.cassandra.apache.org/> . For RedHat it is now > https://redhat.cassandra.apache.org/60x/ . > > Enjoy! > > [1]: CHANGES.txt > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-6.0-alpha1/CHANGES.txt > [2]: NEWS.txt > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-6.0-alpha1/NEWS.txt > [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA > >
