[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 0.8.7 released

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

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra
version 0.8.7.

Cassandra is a highly scalable second-generation distributed database,
bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's
ColumnFamily-based data model. You can read more here:

 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 maintenance/bug fix release[1]. Please pay attention to the
release notes[2] before upgrading and let us know[3] if you were to encounter
any problem.

Have fun!


[1]: http://goo.gl/8bCMG (CHANGES.txt)
[2]: http://goo.gl/nOkhy (NEWS.txt)
[3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA