[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 4.1.0 GA released

[Mick Semb Wever <mc...@apache.org>]

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the GA release of Apache
Cassandra version 4.1.0.

Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice
when you need scalability and high availability without compromising
performance.

 http://cassandra.apache.org/

Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download
section:

 http://cassandra.apache.org/download/

This version is the first GA release of the 4.1 series. As always, please
pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you were to
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 . For RedHat
it is now https://redhat.cassandra.apache.org/41x/ .

[SOCIAL MEDIA] Dev community, FYI this is the social media guide to
help/include you if you have not been in the loop. Constantia has been
amazing, and many of you would be aware of all this already. These
activities all already are assigned to folk. It's shared here so you know
the amount of effort and coordination that's happening in parallel to this
launch.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OrfH9wtQjkBHo1-1SxpiMP0g_6CLSApmrAhZdzNvjXo/edit?usp=sharing


Enjoy!

[1]: CHANGES.txt
https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=CHANGES.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-4.1.0
[2]: NEWS.txt
https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-4.1.0
[3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA