[BETA RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 2.1.0-beta1 released

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

The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of the first beta for
the future Apache Cassandra 2.1.0.

Let me first stress that this is beta software and as such is *not* ready
for
production use.

The goal of this release is to give a preview of what will become Cassandra
2.1 and to get wider testing in preparation for the final release. As such,
this
beta is known not to be bug free, nor perfectly ironed out, but all help in
testing this beta would be greatly appreciated and will help make 2.1 a
solid
release. So please report any problem you may encounter[3,4] with this
release
and 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-beta1[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/oeEEE0 (CHANGES.txt)
[2]: http://goo.gl/jDYh7U (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-beta1