No, I couldn't download the beta with the first link. The mirrors returned 404 for that. After exploring the link and I found the latter uri was worked. So I don't think we need to wait.
2012/2/22 Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com>: > Arf, you'r right sorry. > I've fixed it (but it could take ~1 to get propagated to all apache mirrors). > > -- > SYlvain > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Maki Watanabe <watanabe.m...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> The link is wrong. >> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/cassandra/1.1.0/apache-cassandra-1.1.0-beta1-bin.tar.gz >> Should be: >> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/cassandra/1.1.0-beta1/apache-cassandra-1.1.0-beta1-bin.tar.gz >> >> >> 2012/2/21 Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com>: >>> The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of the first beta for >>> the future Apache Cassandra 1.1. >>> >>> Let me first stress that this is beta software and as such is *not* ready >>> for >>> production use. >>> >>> The goal of this release is to give a preview of what will become Cassandra >>> 1.1 and to get wider testing before the final release. All help in testing >>> this release would be therefore greatly appreciated and please report any >>> problem you may encounter[3,4]. Have a look at the change log[1] and the >>> release notes[2] to see where Cassandra 1.1 differs from the previous >>> series. >>> >>> Apache Cassandra 1.1.0-beta1[5] is available as usual from the cassandra >>> website (http://cassandra.apache.org/download/) and a debian package is >>> available using the 11x branch (see >>> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging). >>> >>> Thank you for your help in testing and have fun with it. >>> >>> [1]: http://goo.gl/6iURu (CHANGES.txt) >>> [2]: http://goo.gl/hWilW (NEWS.txt) >>> [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA >>> [4]: user@cassandra.apache.org >>> [5]: >>> http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/cassandra-1.1.0-beta1 >> >> >> >> -- >> w3m -- w3m