[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 4.0-alpha4 released

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

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra
version 4.0-alpha4.

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/


Downloads of source and binary distributions:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/cassandra/4.0-alpha4/apache-cassandra-4.0-alpha4-bin.tar.gz
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/cassandra/4.0-alpha4/apache-cassandra-4.0-alpha4-src.tar.gz

Debian and Redhat configurations.

  sources.list:
  deb http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian 40x main

  yum config:
  baseurl=https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/redhat/40x/

See http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ for full install instructions.

This is an ALPHA version! It is not intended for production use, however
the project would appreciate your testing and feedback to make the final
release better. As always, please pay attention to the release notes[2] and
let us know[3] if you encounter any problems.

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-alpha4
[2]: NEWS.txt
https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-4.0-alpha4
[3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA