Re: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 1.2.17 released

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

TL;DR: unless you plan on compiling the source for this 1.2.17 release with
java 6, or want to use the new CloudStack snitch with java 6, you can
ignore this. Otherwise, read on.

The source for this 1.2.17 release won't compile with java 6 due to a
regression from CASSANDRA-7147
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7147>. This is a "bug":
the 1.2 branch is still meant to be compatible with java 6 and we'll
release a 1.2.18 with a fix for this this shortly. Please note that doesn't
affect the binary artifacts published: those are still compiled for java 6
and there no particular problem running them with java 6. With the one
exception being the the new Cloudstack snitch introduced by CASSANDRA-7147
that will not work (it will throw a ClassNotFoundException) with java 6
until 1.2.18 is released.

--
Sylvain


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sy...@datastax.com>
wrote:

> The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra
> version 1.2.17.
>
> 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] on the 1.2 series. As
> always,
> please pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you
> were to
> encounter any problem.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> [1]: http://goo.gl/Me7v64 (CHANGES.txt)
> [2]: http://goo.gl/CWCIul (NEWS.txt)
> [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA
>
>