[RELEASE CANDIDATE] Apache Cassandra 2.1.0-rc1 released

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

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of the first 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-rc1 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-rc1[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/sjdeEG (CHANGES.txt)
[2]: http://goo.gl/k6aW8H (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-rc1