[ANNOUNCE] Apache Cassandra 5.0-alpha2 test artifact available

[Mick Semb Wever <mc...@apache.org>]

The test build of Cassandra 5.0-alpha2 is available.

DISCLAIMER, this alpha release does not contain the features:
Transactional Cluster Metadata
(CEP-21) and Accord Transactions (CEP-15).  These features are under
discussion to be pushed to a 5.1-alpha1 release, with an eta still
this year.

This release does contain Vector Similarity Search (CEP-30).

Please also note that this is an alpha release and what that means,
further info at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Release+Lifecycle

sha1: ea76d148c374198fede6978422895668857a927f
Git: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/5.0-alpha2-tentative
Maven Artifacts:
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-1317/org/apache/cassandra/cassandra-all/5.0-alpha2/

The Source and Build Artifacts, and the Debian and RPM packages and
repositories, are available here:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/cassandra/5.0-alpha2/

A vote of this test build will be initiated within the next couple of days.

[1]: CHANGES.txt:
https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/5.0-alpha2-tentative/CHANGES.txt
[2]: NEWS.txt: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/5.0-alpha2-tentative/NEWS.txt