[BETA RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 2.0.0-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 2.0.0.

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
2.0 and to get wider testing before the final release. As such, it is likely
not bug free but all help in testing this beta would be greatly appreciated
and
will help make 2.0 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 2.0 differs from the previous
series.

Apache Cassandra 2.0.0-beta1[5] is available as usual from the cassandra
website (http://cassandra.apache.org/download/) and a debian package is
available using the 20x branch (see
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging).

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

[1]: http://goo.gl/TjQGd (CHANGES.txt)
[2]: http://goo.gl/K4QsX (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-2.0.0-beta1