[RELEASE CANDIDATE] Apache Cassandra 2.1.0-rc2 released

[Sylvain Lebresne <sy...@datastax.com>]

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of the second release
candidate for the future Apache Cassandra 2.1.0.

Let first stress that this is not yet the final release of 2.1.0 and as
such is
*not* ready for production use. We however encourage as much testing as
possible of this release candidate as possible and please report any problem
you may encounter[3,4]. Also make sure to have a look at the change log[1]
and
release notes[2] to see where Cassandra 2.1 differs from the previous
series.

Apache Cassandra 2.1.0-rc2[5] is available as usual from the cassandra
website (http://cassandra.apache.org/download/) and a debian package is
available using the 21x branch (see
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging).

Thank you for your help in testing and have fun with it.

[1]: http://goo.gl/l7HnCV (CHANGES.txt)
[2]: http://goo.gl/AsB89A (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-2.1.0-rc2