[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 4.0.5 released

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

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra
version 4.0.5.

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 a bug fix release[1] on the 4.0 series. As always, please
pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you were to
encounter any problem.

IMPORTANT: this artifact contains CASSANDRA-15511, which will significantly
reduce allocations and improve the write throughput, particularly on
collections and contended partitions.

Enjoy!

[1]: CHANGES.txt
https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=CHANGES.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-4.0.5
[2]: NEWS.txt
https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-4.0.5
[3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA