Only agreement ! CASSANDRA-21319 for the branching, which is in progress. I need to leave the 6.0-alpha2 cut to others.
> On 9 Apr 2026, at 23:37, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >
