[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 0.8.1 released

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

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra
version 0.8.1.

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 fixes a number of bugs[1,3] and upgrade is highly encouraged. It
also ships with a few improvements that did not made it in time for 0.8.0.
Please see the release notes[2] for details, and more generally always pay
attention to the release notes before upgrading,

If you were to encounter any problem, please let us know[4].

Have fun!


[1]: http://goo.gl/qbvPB (CHANGES.txt)
[2]: http://goo.gl/7uQXl (NEWS.txt)
[3]: http://goo.gl/IbOQW (JIRA Release Notes)
[4]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA