[BETA-RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 2.2.0-beta1 released

[Jake Luciani <ja...@apache.org>]

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra
version 2.2.0-beta1.

This release is *not* production ready. We are looking for testing of
existing and new features. If you encounter any problem please let us know
[1].

Cassandra 2.2 features major enhancements such as:

    * Resume-able Bootstrapping
    * JSON Support [4]
    * User Defined Functions [5]
    * Server-side Aggregation [6]
    * Role based access control

Read [2] and [3] to learn about all the new features.

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

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

Enjoy!

-The Cassandra Team

[1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA
[2]: http://goo.gl/MyOEib (NEWS.txt)
[3]: http://goo.gl/MBJd1S (CHANGES.txt)
[4]: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL-2.2.html#json
[5]: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL-2.2.html#udfs
[6]: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL-2.2.html#udas