[RELEASE CANDIDATE] Apache Cassandra 1.2.0-rc2 released

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

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the second release candidate (and
likely the last Cassandra release ever since it's the end of the world) for
the
future Apache Cassandra 1.2.0.

Let me first stress that this is not the final release yet and as such is
*not*
ready for production use.

This release is getting very close to a final version but may still contain
bugs. All available testing of this release will help making 1.2.0 final a
better release and would thus be greatly appreciated. If you were to
encounter
any problem during your testing, please report[3,4] them. Be sure to a look
at
the change log[1] and the release notes[2] to see where Cassandra 1.2
differs
from the previous series.

Apache Cassandra 1.2.0-rc2[5] is available as usual from the cassandra
website (http://cassandra.apache.org/download/) and a debian package is
available using the 12x branch (see
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging).

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

[1]: http://goo.gl/plZyW (CHANGES.txt)
[2]: http://goo.gl/frTqL (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-1.2.0-rc2