[RELEASE CANDIDATE] Apache Cassandra 2.1.0-rc5 released

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

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of the fifth release
candidate for the future Apache Cassandra 2.1.0.

If all goes well this candidate will become the final 2.1.0 but until then,
it
should not be considered for production use. We'd appreciate testing and let
us know if you encounter any problem[3,4]. Please make sure to have a look
at
the change log[1] and release notes[2].

Apache Cassandra 2.1.0-rc5[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/oKtgbo (CHANGES.txt)
[2]: http://goo.gl/hGfRtm (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-rc5