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Posted to commits@cassandra.apache.org by ma...@apache.org on 2020/01/16 10:14:01 UTC

[cassandra] branch cassandra-3.0 updated: Run in-jvm upgrade dtests in circle ci

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marcuse pushed a commit to branch cassandra-3.0
in repository https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra.git


The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/cassandra-3.0 by this push:
     new 5f57212  Run in-jvm upgrade dtests in circle ci
5f57212 is described below

commit 5f5721226788a9db73ad37a48bd02a66c84b7e5c
Author: Marcus Eriksson <ma...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 15 10:40:03 2020 +0100

    Run in-jvm upgrade dtests in circle ci
    
    Patch by marcuse; reviewed by Alex Petrov for CASSANDRA-15506
---
 .circleci/config-2_1.yml                           |   74 ++
 .circleci/config.yml                               | 1004 ++++++-------------
 .circleci/config.yml.HIGHRES                       | 1006 +++++++-------------
 .circleci/config.yml.LOWRES                        | 1004 ++++++-------------
 CHANGES.txt                                        |    1 +
 build.xml                                          |   35 +
 .../cassandra/distributed/test/TestLocator.java    |    8 +-
 7 files changed, 1069 insertions(+), 2063 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.circleci/config-2_1.yml b/.circleci/config-2_1.yml
index 859100d..a4410fe 100644
--- a/.circleci/config-2_1.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config-2_1.yml
@@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ with_dtests_jobs: &with_dtest_jobs
             - utests_compression:
                 requires:
                   - start_utests_compression
+            - start_jvm_upgrade_dtest:
+                type: approval
+                requires:
+                  - build
+            - dtest_jars_build:
+                requires:
+                  - start_jvm_upgrade_dtest
+            - j8_jvm_upgrade_dtests:
+                requires:
+                  - dtest_jars_build
             # Java 8 dtests (on request)
             - start_j8_dtests:
                 type: approval
@@ -120,6 +130,18 @@ jobs:
                 - cassandra
                 - .m2
 
+  dtest_jars_build:
+    executor: java8-executor
+    parallelism: 1
+    steps:
+      - attach_workspace:
+          at: /home/cassandra
+      - build_cassandra_dtest_jars
+      - persist_to_workspace:
+          root: /home/cassandra
+          paths:
+            - dtest_jars
+
   j8_unit_tests:
     <<: *j8_par_executor
     steps:
@@ -137,6 +159,14 @@ jobs:
       - run_junit_tests:
           target: test-jvm-dtest-forking
 
+  j8_jvm_upgrade_dtests:
+    <<: *j8_seq_executor
+    steps:
+      - attach_workspace:
+          at: /home/cassandra
+      - run_junit_tests:
+          target: test-jvm-upgrade-dtest-forking
+
   utests_long:
     <<: *j8_seq_executor
     steps:
@@ -262,6 +292,47 @@ commands:
           fi
         no_output_timeout: 15m
 
+  build_cassandra_dtest_jars:
+    steps:
+    - run:
+        name: Build Cassandra DTest jars
+        command: |
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          cd ~/cassandra
+          git remote add apache git://github.com/apache/cassandra.git
+          for branch in cassandra-2.2 cassandra-3.0 cassandra-3.11 trunk; do
+            # check out the correct cassandra version:
+            git remote set-branches --add apache '$branch'
+            git fetch --depth 1 apache $branch
+            git checkout $branch
+            # Loop to prevent failure due to maven-ant-tasks not downloading a jar..
+            for x in $(seq 1 3); do
+                ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar dtest-jar
+                RETURN="$?"
+                if [ "${RETURN}" -eq "0" ]; then
+                    break
+                fi
+            done
+            # Exit, if we didn't build successfully
+            if [ "${RETURN}" -ne "0" ]; then
+                echo "Build failed with exit code: ${RETURN}"
+                exit ${RETURN}
+            fi
+          done
+          # and build the dtest-jar for the branch under test
+          git checkout origin/$CIRCLE_BRANCH
+          for x in $(seq 1 3); do
+              ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar dtest-jar
+              RETURN="$?"
+              if [ "${RETURN}" -eq "0" ]; then
+                  break
+              fi
+          done
+          mkdir ~/dtest_jars
+          cp build/dtest*.jar ~/dtest_jars
+          ls -l ~/dtest_jars
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+
   run_eclipse_warnings:
     steps:
     - run:
@@ -310,6 +381,9 @@ commands:
           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
           cd /tmp/cassandra
+          if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
+            cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
+          fi
           ant clean <<parameters.target>>
         no_output_timeout: <<parameters.no_output_timeout>>
     - store_test_results:
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 0d56e23..d80b78d 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,51 @@
 version: 2
 jobs:
+  j8_jvm_upgrade_dtests:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: medium
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 1
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Run Unit Tests (test-jvm-upgrade-dtest-forking)
+        command: |
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
+          cd /tmp/cassandra
+          if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
+            cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
+          fi
+          ant clean test-jvm-upgrade-dtest-forking
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output
+        destination: junitxml
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/logs
+        destination: logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   build:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
@@ -81,6 +127,163 @@ jobs:
     - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
     - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+  j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: medium
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 4
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        command: |
+          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
+    - run:
+        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
+        command: |
+          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
+          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
+          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
+          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
+          pip3 freeze
+    - run:
+        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 5m
+        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\necho \"***Collected DTests (j8_without_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --skip-resource-inten [...]
+    - run:
+        name: Run dtests (j8_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\"\ncat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\njava -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env: $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the [...]
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/results
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/dtest
+        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
+        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes_logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+  j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: medium
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 4
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        command: |
+          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
+    - run:
+        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
+        command: |
+          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
+          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
+          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
+          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
+          pip3 freeze
+    - run:
+        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 5m
+        command: |
+          # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
+          # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
+          # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
+
+          cd cassandra-dtest
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+
+          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
+            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
+          fi
+
+          echo "***Collected DTests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)***"
+          set -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --execute-upgrade-tests --dtest-print-tests-only --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra
+          if [ -z '^upgrade_tests' ]; then
+            mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
+          else
+            grep -e '^upgrade_tests' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes || { echo "Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build."; exit 0; }
+          fi
+          set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt
+          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt | tr '\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
+          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
+    - run:
+        name: Run dtests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+        command: |
+          echo "cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt"
+          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
+
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
+            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
+          fi
+
+          java -version
+          cd ~/cassandra-dtest
+          mkdir -p /tmp/dtest
+
+          echo "env: $(env)"
+          echo "** done env"
+          mkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests
+          # we need the "set -o pipefail" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee
+          export SPLIT_TESTS=`cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt`
+          set -o pipefail && cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --execute-upgrade-tests --log-level="INFO" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.xml -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/results
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/dtest
+        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
+        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   j8_unit_tests:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
@@ -165,6 +368,64 @@ jobs:
     - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
     - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+  j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: medium
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 4
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        command: |
+          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
+    - run:
+        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
+        command: |
+          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
+          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
+          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
+          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
+          pip3 freeze
+    - run:
+        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_with_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 5m
+        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\necho \"***Collected DTests (j8_with_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --use-vnodes --skip-reso [...]
+    - run:
+        name: Run dtests (j8_with_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\"\ncat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\njava -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env: $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit  [...]
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/results
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/dtest
+        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
+        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes_logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   j8_jvm_dtests:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
@@ -181,6 +442,9 @@ jobs:
           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
           cd /tmp/cassandra
+          if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
+            cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
+          fi
           ant clean test-jvm-dtest-forking
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
@@ -224,6 +488,9 @@ jobs:
           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
           cd /tmp/cassandra
+          if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
+            cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
+          fi
           ant clean long-test
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
@@ -335,255 +602,58 @@ jobs:
     - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
     - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-  j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-    docker:
-    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
-    resource_class: medium
-    working_directory: ~/
-    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-    parallelism: 4
-    steps:
-    - attach_workspace:
-        at: /home/cassandra
-    - run:
-        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
-        command: |
-          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-    - run:
-        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-        command: |
-          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-          pip3 freeze
-    - run:
-        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_with_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 5m
-        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently\
-          \ executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci\
-          \ script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via\
-          \ the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          echo \"***Collected DTests (j8_with_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py\
-          \ --use-vnodes --skip-resource-intensive-tests --dtest-print-tests-only\
-          \ --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra\n\
-          if [ -z '' ]; then\n  mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes\n\
-          else\n  grep -e '' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes\
-          \ || { echo \"Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build.\"; exit 0;\
-          \ }\nfi\nset -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname\
-          \ /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes.txt\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes.txt | tr '\\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n"
-    - run:
-        name: Run dtests (j8_with_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 15m
-        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\"\ncat\
-          \ /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          java -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env:\
-          \ $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need\
-          \ the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will\
-          \ actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee\nexport SPLIT_TESTS=`cat\
-          \ /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt`\nset -o pipefail && cd\
-          \ ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --use-vnodes --num-tokens=32 --skip-resource-intensive-tests\
-          \ --log-level=\"INFO\" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_with_vnodes.xml\
-          \ -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS\
-          \ 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt\n"
-    - store_test_results:
-        path: /tmp/results
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: /tmp/dtest
-        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes_logs
-    environment:
-    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
-    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
-    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
-    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
-    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
-    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
-    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
-    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
-    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
-    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
-    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
-    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-  j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
+  dtest_jars_build:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
     resource_class: medium
     working_directory: ~/
     shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-    parallelism: 4
-    steps:
-    - attach_workspace:
-        at: /home/cassandra
-    - run:
-        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
-        command: |
-          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-    - run:
-        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-        command: |
-          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-          pip3 freeze
-    - run:
-        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_without_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 5m
-        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently\
-          \ executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci\
-          \ script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via\
-          \ the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          echo \"***Collected DTests (j8_without_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail &&\
-          \ ./run_dtests.py --skip-resource-intensive-tests --dtest-print-tests-only\
-          \ --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_raw\
-          \ --cassandra-dir=../cassandra\nif [ -z '' ]; then\n  mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_raw\
-          \ /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes\nelse\n  grep -e '' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_raw\
-          \ > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes || { echo \"Filter did not match\
-          \ any tests! Exiting build.\"; exit 0; }\nfi\nset -eo pipefail && circleci\
-          \ tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes\
-          \ > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes.txt\ncat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes.txt\
-          \ | tr '\\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n"
-    - run:
-        name: Run dtests (j8_without_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 15m
-        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\"\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          java -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env:\
-          \ $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need\
-          \ the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will\
-          \ actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee\nexport SPLIT_TESTS=`cat\
-          \ /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt`\nset -o pipefail &&\
-          \ cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --skip-resource-intensive-tests --log-level=\"\
-          INFO\" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_without_vnodes.xml\
-          \ -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS\
-          \ 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt\n"
-    - store_test_results:
-        path: /tmp/results
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: /tmp/dtest
-        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes_logs
-    environment:
-    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
-    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
-    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
-    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
-    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
-    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
-    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
-    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
-    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
-    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
-    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
-    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-  j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
-    docker:
-    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
-    resource_class: medium
-    working_directory: ~/
-    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-    parallelism: 4
+    parallelism: 1
     steps:
     - attach_workspace:
         at: /home/cassandra
     - run:
-        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        name: Build Cassandra DTest jars
         command: |
-          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-    - run:
-        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-        command: |
-          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-          pip3 freeze
-    - run:
-        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 5m
-        command: |
-          # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
-          # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
-          # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
-
-          cd cassandra-dtest
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-
-          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
-            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
-          fi
-
-          echo "***Collected DTests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)***"
-          set -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --execute-upgrade-tests --dtest-print-tests-only --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra
-          if [ -z '^upgrade_tests' ]; then
-            mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-          else
-            grep -e '^upgrade_tests' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes || { echo "Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build."; exit 0; }
-          fi
-          set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt | tr '\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
-    - run:
-        name: Run dtests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
+          cd ~/cassandra
+          git remote add apache git://github.com/apache/cassandra.git
+          for branch in cassandra-2.2 cassandra-3.0 cassandra-3.11 trunk; do
+            # check out the correct cassandra version:
+            git remote set-branches --add apache '$branch'
+            git fetch --depth 1 apache $branch
+            git checkout $branch
+            # Loop to prevent failure due to maven-ant-tasks not downloading a jar..
+            for x in $(seq 1 3); do
+                ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar dtest-jar
+                RETURN="$?"
+                if [ "${RETURN}" -eq "0" ]; then
+                    break
+                fi
+            done
+            # Exit, if we didn't build successfully
+            if [ "${RETURN}" -ne "0" ]; then
+                echo "Build failed with exit code: ${RETURN}"
+                exit ${RETURN}
+            fi
+          done
+          # and build the dtest-jar for the branch under test
+          git checkout origin/$CIRCLE_BRANCH
+          for x in $(seq 1 3); do
+              ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar dtest-jar
+              RETURN="$?"
+              if [ "${RETURN}" -eq "0" ]; then
+                  break
+              fi
+          done
+          mkdir ~/dtest_jars
+          cp build/dtest*.jar ~/dtest_jars
+          ls -l ~/dtest_jars
         no_output_timeout: 15m
-        command: |
-          echo "cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt"
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
-
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
-            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
-          fi
-
-          java -version
-          cd ~/cassandra-dtest
-          mkdir -p /tmp/dtest
-
-          echo "env: $(env)"
-          echo "** done env"
-          mkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests
-          # we need the "set -o pipefail" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee
-          export SPLIT_TESTS=`cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt`
-          set -o pipefail && cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --execute-upgrade-tests --log-level="INFO" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.xml -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt
-    - store_test_results:
-        path: /tmp/results
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: /tmp/dtest
-        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_logs
+    - persist_to_workspace:
+        root: /home/cassandra
+        paths:
+        - dtest_jars
     environment:
     - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
@@ -606,6 +676,16 @@ workflows:
   build_and_run_tests:
     jobs:
     - build
+    - start_jvm_upgrade_dtest:
+        type: approval
+        requires:
+        - build
+    - dtest_jars_build:
+        requires:
+        - start_jvm_upgrade_dtest
+    - j8_jvm_upgrade_dtests:
+        requires:
+        - dtest_jars_build
     - j8_unit_tests:
         requires:
         - build
@@ -643,453 +723,3 @@ workflows:
     - j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
         requires:
         - start_upgrade_tests
-
-# Original config.yml file:
-# version: 2.1
-# 
-# default_env_vars: &default_env_vars
-#     JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-#     ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
-#     LANG: en_US.UTF-8
-#     KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
-#     DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
-#     PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
-#     PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
-#     CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
-#     CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
-#     #Skip all syncing to disk to avoid performance issues in flaky CI environments
-#     CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
-#     DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
-#     DTEST_BRANCH: master
-#     CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
-#     CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
-# 
-# j8_par_executor: &j8_par_executor
-#   executor:
-#     name: java8-executor
-#     #exec_resource_class: xlarge
-#   parallelism: 4
-# 
-# j8_seq_executor: &j8_seq_executor
-#   executor:
-#     name: java8-executor
-#     #exec_resource_class: xlarge
-#   parallelism: 1 # sequential, single container tests: no parallelism benefits
-# 
-# with_dtests_jobs: &with_dtest_jobs
-#         jobs:
-#             - build
-#             # Java 8 unit tests will be run automatically
-#             - j8_unit_tests:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - j8_jvm_dtests:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             # specialized unit tests (all run on request using Java 8)
-#             - start_utests_long:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - utests_long:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_utests_long
-#             - start_utests_compression:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - utests_compression:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_utests_compression
-#             # Java 8 dtests (on request)
-#             - start_j8_dtests:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_j8_dtests
-#             - j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_j8_dtests
-#             # Java 8 upgrade tests
-#             - start_upgrade_tests:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_upgrade_tests
-# 
-# with_dtest_jobs_only: &with_dtest_jobs_only
-#         jobs:
-#             - build
-#             - j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-#                   requires:
-#                       - build
-#             - j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
-#                   requires:
-#                       - build
-# 
-# workflows:
-#     version: 2
-#     build_and_run_tests: *with_dtest_jobs
-#     #build_and_run_tests: *with_dtest_jobs_only
-# 
-# executors:
-#   java8-executor:
-#     parameters:
-#       exec_resource_class:
-#         type: string
-#         default: medium
-#     docker:
-#       - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
-#     resource_class: << parameters.exec_resource_class >>
-#     working_directory: ~/
-#     shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-#     environment:
-#       <<: *default_env_vars
-#       JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-#       JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-# 
-# jobs:
-#   build:
-#     executor: java8-executor
-#     parallelism: 1 # This job doesn't benefit from parallelism
-#     steps:
-#       - log_environment
-#       - clone_cassandra
-#       - build_cassandra
-#       - run_eclipse_warnings
-#       - persist_to_workspace:
-#             root: /home/cassandra
-#             paths:
-#                 - cassandra
-#                 - .m2
-# 
-#   j8_unit_tests:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - create_junit_containers
-#       - log_environment
-#       - run_parallel_junit_tests
-# 
-#   j8_jvm_dtests:
-#     <<: *j8_seq_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - run_junit_tests:
-#           target: test-jvm-dtest-forking
-# 
-#   utests_long:
-#     <<: *j8_seq_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - run_junit_tests:
-#           target: long-test
-# 
-#   utests_compression:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - create_junit_containers
-#       - log_environment
-#       - run_parallel_junit_tests:
-#           target: testclasslist-compression
-# 
-#   j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - clone_dtest
-#       - create_venv
-#       - create_dtest_containers:
-#           file_tag: j8_with_vnodes
-#           run_dtests_extra_args: '--use-vnodes --skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-#       - run_dtests:
-#           file_tag: j8_with_vnodes
-#           pytest_extra_args: '--use-vnodes --num-tokens=32 --skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-# 
-#   j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - clone_dtest
-#       - create_venv
-#       - create_dtest_containers:
-#           file_tag: j8_without_vnodes
-#           run_dtests_extra_args: '--skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-#       - run_dtests:
-#           file_tag: j8_without_vnodes
-#           pytest_extra_args: '--skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-# 
-#   j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - clone_dtest
-#       - create_venv
-#       - create_dtest_containers:
-#           file_tag: j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-#           run_dtests_extra_args: '--execute-upgrade-tests'
-#           extra_env_args: 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true'
-#           tests_filter_pattern: '^upgrade_tests'
-#       - run_dtests:
-#           file_tag: j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-#           extra_env_args: 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true'
-#           pytest_extra_args: '--execute-upgrade-tests'
-# 
-# commands:
-#   log_environment:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Log Environment Information
-#         command: |
-#           echo '*** id ***'
-#           id
-#           echo '*** cat /proc/cpuinfo ***'
-#           cat /proc/cpuinfo
-#           echo '*** free -m ***'
-#           free -m
-#           echo '*** df -m ***'
-#           df -m
-#           echo '*** ifconfig -a ***'
-#           ifconfig -a
-#           echo '*** uname -a ***'
-#           uname -a
-#           echo '*** mount ***'
-#           mount
-#           echo '*** env ***'
-#           env
-#           echo '*** java ***'
-#           which java
-#           java -version
-# 
-#   clone_cassandra:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Clone Cassandra Repository (via git)
-#         command: |
-#           git clone --single-branch --depth 1 --branch $CIRCLE_BRANCH git://github.com/$CIRCLE_PROJECT_USERNAME/$CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME.git ~/cassandra
-# 
-#   clone_dtest:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
-#         command: |
-#           git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-# 
-#   build_cassandra:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Build Cassandra
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           cd ~/cassandra
-#           # Loop to prevent failure due to maven-ant-tasks not downloading a jar..
-#           for x in $(seq 1 3); do
-#               ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar
-#               RETURN=\"$?\"
-#               if [ \"${RETURN}\" -eq \"0\" ]; then
-#                   break
-#               fi
-#           done
-#           # Exit, if we didn't build successfully
-#           if [ \"${RETURN}\" -ne \"0\" ]; then
-#               echo \"Build failed with exit code: ${RETURN}\"
-#               exit ${RETURN}
-#           fi
-#         no_output_timeout: 15m
-# 
-#   run_eclipse_warnings:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Run eclipse-warnings
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           cd ~/cassandra
-#           ant eclipse-warnings
-# 
-#   create_junit_containers:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Determine Unit Tests to Run
-#         command: |
-#           # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
-#           # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
-#           # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
-# 
-#           rm -fr ~/cassandra-dtest/upgrade_tests
-#           echo \"***java tests***\"
-# 
-#           # get all of our unit test filenames
-#           set -eo pipefail && circleci tests glob \"$HOME/cassandra/test/unit/**/*.java\" > /tmp/all_java_unit_tests.txt
-# 
-#           # split up the unit tests into groups based on the number of containers we have
-#           set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=filename --index=${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX} --total=${CIRCLE_NODE_TOTAL} /tmp/all_java_unit_tests.txt > /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}.txt
-#           set -eo pipefail && cat /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}.txt | cut -c 37-1000000 | grep \"Test\\.java$\" > /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt
-#           echo \"** /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt\"
-#           cat /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt
-# 
-#         no_output_timeout: 15m
-# 
-#   run_junit_tests:
-#     parameters:
-#       target:
-#         type: string
-#       no_output_timeout:
-#         type: string
-#         default: 15m
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Run Unit Tests (<<parameters.target>>)
-#         # Please note that we run `clean` and therefore rebuild the project, as we can't run tests on Java 8 in case
-#         # based on Java 11 builds.
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
-#           cd /tmp/cassandra
-#           ant clean <<parameters.target>>
-#         no_output_timeout: <<parameters.no_output_timeout>>
-#     - store_test_results:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output
-#         destination: junitxml
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/logs
-#         destination: logs
-# 
-#   run_parallel_junit_tests:
-#     parameters:
-#       target:
-#         type: string
-#         default: testclasslist
-#       no_output_timeout:
-#         type: string
-#         default: 15m
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Run Unit Tests (<<parameters.target>>)
-#         # Please note that we run `clean` and therefore rebuild the project, as we can't run tests on Java 8 in case
-#         # based on Java 11 builds.
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
-#           cd /tmp/cassandra
-#           ant <<parameters.target>> -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
-#         no_output_timeout: <<parameters.no_output_timeout>>
-#     - store_test_results:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output
-#         destination: junitxml
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/logs
-#         destination: logs
-# 
-#   create_venv:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-#         command: |
-#           # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-#           # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-#           # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-#           # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-#           source ~/env/bin/activate
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-#           pip3 freeze
-# 
-#   create_dtest_containers:
-#     parameters:
-#       file_tag:
-#         type: string
-#       run_dtests_extra_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#       extra_env_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#       tests_filter_pattern:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Determine Tests to Run (<<parameters.file_tag>>)
-#         no_output_timeout: 5m
-#         command: |
-#           # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
-#           # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
-#           # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
-# 
-#           cd cassandra-dtest
-#           source ~/env/bin/activate
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-# 
-#           if [ -n '<<parameters.extra_env_args>>' ]; then
-#             export <<parameters.extra_env_args>>
-#           fi
-# 
-#           echo \"***Collected DTests (<<parameters.file_tag>>)***\"
-#           set -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py <<parameters.run_dtests_extra_args>> --dtest-print-tests-only --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra
-#           if [ -z '<<parameters.tests_filter_pattern>>' ]; then
-#             mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>
-#           else
-#             grep -e '<<parameters.tests_filter_pattern>>' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>> || { echo \"Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build.\"; exit 0; }
-#           fi
-#           set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>> > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>.txt
-#           cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>.txt | tr '\\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt
-#           cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt
-# 
-#   run_dtests:
-#     parameters:
-#       file_tag:
-#         type: string
-#       pytest_extra_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#       extra_env_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#     steps:
-#       - run:
-#           name: Run dtests (<<parameters.file_tag>>)
-#           no_output_timeout: 15m
-#           command: |
-#             echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt\"
-#             cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt
-# 
-#             source ~/env/bin/activate
-#             export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#             if [ -n '<<parameters.extra_env_args>>' ]; then
-#               export <<parameters.extra_env_args>>
-#             fi
-# 
-#             java -version
-#             cd ~/cassandra-dtest
-#             mkdir -p /tmp/dtest
-# 
-#             echo \"env: $(env)\"
-#             echo \"** done env\"
-#             mkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests
-#             # we need the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee
-#             export SPLIT_TESTS=`cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt`
-#             set -o pipefail && cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest <<parameters.pytest_extra_args>> --log-level=\"INFO\" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_<<parameters.file_tag>>.xml -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt
-#       - store_test_results:
-#           path: /tmp/results
-#       - store_artifacts:
-#           path: /tmp/dtest
-#           destination: dtest_<<parameters.file_tag>>
-#       - store_artifacts:
-#           path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-#           destination: dtest_<<parameters.file_tag>>_logs
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml.HIGHRES b/.circleci/config.yml.HIGHRES
index ab38b45..94ca5b2 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml.HIGHRES
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml.HIGHRES
@@ -1,5 +1,51 @@
 version: 2
 jobs:
+  j8_jvm_upgrade_dtests:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: xlarge
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 1
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Run Unit Tests (test-jvm-upgrade-dtest-forking)
+        command: |
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
+          cd /tmp/cassandra
+          if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
+            cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
+          fi
+          ant clean test-jvm-upgrade-dtest-forking
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output
+        destination: junitxml
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/logs
+        destination: logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 2048M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 512M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   build:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
@@ -81,6 +127,163 @@ jobs:
     - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 512M
     - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+  j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: xlarge
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 100
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        command: |
+          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
+    - run:
+        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
+        command: |
+          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
+          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
+          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
+          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
+          pip3 freeze
+    - run:
+        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 5m
+        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\necho \"***Collected DTests (j8_without_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --skip-resource-inten [...]
+    - run:
+        name: Run dtests (j8_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\"\ncat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\njava -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env: $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the [...]
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/results
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/dtest
+        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
+        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes_logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 2048M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 512M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+  j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: xlarge
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 100
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        command: |
+          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
+    - run:
+        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
+        command: |
+          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
+          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
+          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
+          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
+          pip3 freeze
+    - run:
+        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 5m
+        command: |
+          # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
+          # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
+          # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
+
+          cd cassandra-dtest
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+
+          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
+            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
+          fi
+
+          echo "***Collected DTests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)***"
+          set -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --execute-upgrade-tests --dtest-print-tests-only --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra
+          if [ -z '^upgrade_tests' ]; then
+            mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
+          else
+            grep -e '^upgrade_tests' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes || { echo "Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build."; exit 0; }
+          fi
+          set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt
+          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt | tr '\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
+          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
+    - run:
+        name: Run dtests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+        command: |
+          echo "cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt"
+          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
+
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
+            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
+          fi
+
+          java -version
+          cd ~/cassandra-dtest
+          mkdir -p /tmp/dtest
+
+          echo "env: $(env)"
+          echo "** done env"
+          mkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests
+          # we need the "set -o pipefail" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee
+          export SPLIT_TESTS=`cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt`
+          set -o pipefail && cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --execute-upgrade-tests --log-level="INFO" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.xml -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/results
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/dtest
+        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
+        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 2048M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 512M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   j8_unit_tests:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
@@ -165,6 +368,64 @@ jobs:
     - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 512M
     - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+  j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: xlarge
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 100
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        command: |
+          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
+    - run:
+        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
+        command: |
+          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
+          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
+          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
+          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
+          pip3 freeze
+    - run:
+        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_with_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 5m
+        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\necho \"***Collected DTests (j8_with_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --use-vnodes --skip-reso [...]
+    - run:
+        name: Run dtests (j8_with_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\"\ncat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\njava -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env: $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit  [...]
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/results
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/dtest
+        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
+        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes_logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 2048M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 512M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   j8_jvm_dtests:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
@@ -181,6 +442,9 @@ jobs:
           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
           cd /tmp/cassandra
+          if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
+            cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
+          fi
           ant clean test-jvm-dtest-forking
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
@@ -224,6 +488,9 @@ jobs:
           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
           cd /tmp/cassandra
+          if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
+            cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
+          fi
           ant clean long-test
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
@@ -335,255 +602,58 @@ jobs:
     - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 512M
     - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-  j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-    docker:
-    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
-    resource_class: xlarge
-    working_directory: ~/
-    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-    parallelism: 100
-    steps:
-    - attach_workspace:
-        at: /home/cassandra
-    - run:
-        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
-        command: |
-          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-    - run:
-        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-        command: |
-          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-          pip3 freeze
-    - run:
-        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_with_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 5m
-        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently\
-          \ executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci\
-          \ script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via\
-          \ the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          echo \"***Collected DTests (j8_with_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py\
-          \ --use-vnodes --skip-resource-intensive-tests --dtest-print-tests-only\
-          \ --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra\n\
-          if [ -z '' ]; then\n  mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes\n\
-          else\n  grep -e '' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes\
-          \ || { echo \"Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build.\"; exit 0;\
-          \ }\nfi\nset -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname\
-          \ /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes.txt\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes.txt | tr '\\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n"
-    - run:
-        name: Run dtests (j8_with_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 15m
-        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\"\ncat\
-          \ /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          java -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env:\
-          \ $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need\
-          \ the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will\
-          \ actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee\nexport SPLIT_TESTS=`cat\
-          \ /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt`\nset -o pipefail && cd\
-          \ ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --use-vnodes --num-tokens=32 --skip-resource-intensive-tests\
-          \ --log-level=\"INFO\" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_with_vnodes.xml\
-          \ -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS\
-          \ 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt\n"
-    - store_test_results:
-        path: /tmp/results
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: /tmp/dtest
-        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes_logs
-    environment:
-    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
-    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
-    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
-    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
-    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
-    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
-    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
-    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
-    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
-    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 2048M
-    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 512M
-    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-  j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
-    docker:
-    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
-    resource_class: xlarge
-    working_directory: ~/
-    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-    parallelism: 100
-    steps:
-    - attach_workspace:
-        at: /home/cassandra
-    - run:
-        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
-        command: |
-          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-    - run:
-        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-        command: |
-          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-          pip3 freeze
-    - run:
-        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_without_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 5m
-        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently\
-          \ executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci\
-          \ script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via\
-          \ the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          echo \"***Collected DTests (j8_without_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail &&\
-          \ ./run_dtests.py --skip-resource-intensive-tests --dtest-print-tests-only\
-          \ --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_raw\
-          \ --cassandra-dir=../cassandra\nif [ -z '' ]; then\n  mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_raw\
-          \ /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes\nelse\n  grep -e '' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_raw\
-          \ > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes || { echo \"Filter did not match\
-          \ any tests! Exiting build.\"; exit 0; }\nfi\nset -eo pipefail && circleci\
-          \ tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes\
-          \ > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes.txt\ncat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes.txt\
-          \ | tr '\\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n"
-    - run:
-        name: Run dtests (j8_without_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 15m
-        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\"\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          java -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env:\
-          \ $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need\
-          \ the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will\
-          \ actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee\nexport SPLIT_TESTS=`cat\
-          \ /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt`\nset -o pipefail &&\
-          \ cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --skip-resource-intensive-tests --log-level=\"\
-          INFO\" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_without_vnodes.xml\
-          \ -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS\
-          \ 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt\n"
-    - store_test_results:
-        path: /tmp/results
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: /tmp/dtest
-        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes_logs
-    environment:
-    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
-    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
-    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
-    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
-    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
-    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
-    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
-    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
-    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
-    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 2048M
-    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 512M
-    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-  j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
+  dtest_jars_build:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
-    resource_class: xlarge
+    resource_class: medium
     working_directory: ~/
     shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-    parallelism: 100
+    parallelism: 1
     steps:
     - attach_workspace:
         at: /home/cassandra
     - run:
-        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
-        command: |
-          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-    - run:
-        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-        command: |
-          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-          pip3 freeze
-    - run:
-        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 5m
+        name: Build Cassandra DTest jars
         command: |
-          # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
-          # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
-          # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
-
-          cd cassandra-dtest
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-
-          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
-            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
-          fi
-
-          echo "***Collected DTests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)***"
-          set -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --execute-upgrade-tests --dtest-print-tests-only --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra
-          if [ -z '^upgrade_tests' ]; then
-            mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-          else
-            grep -e '^upgrade_tests' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes || { echo "Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build."; exit 0; }
-          fi
-          set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt | tr '\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
-    - run:
-        name: Run dtests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
+          cd ~/cassandra
+          git remote add apache git://github.com/apache/cassandra.git
+          for branch in cassandra-2.2 cassandra-3.0 cassandra-3.11 trunk; do
+            # check out the correct cassandra version:
+            git remote set-branches --add apache '$branch'
+            git fetch --depth 1 apache $branch
+            git checkout $branch
+            # Loop to prevent failure due to maven-ant-tasks not downloading a jar..
+            for x in $(seq 1 3); do
+                ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar dtest-jar
+                RETURN="$?"
+                if [ "${RETURN}" -eq "0" ]; then
+                    break
+                fi
+            done
+            # Exit, if we didn't build successfully
+            if [ "${RETURN}" -ne "0" ]; then
+                echo "Build failed with exit code: ${RETURN}"
+                exit ${RETURN}
+            fi
+          done
+          # and build the dtest-jar for the branch under test
+          git checkout origin/$CIRCLE_BRANCH
+          for x in $(seq 1 3); do
+              ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar dtest-jar
+              RETURN="$?"
+              if [ "${RETURN}" -eq "0" ]; then
+                  break
+              fi
+          done
+          mkdir ~/dtest_jars
+          cp build/dtest*.jar ~/dtest_jars
+          ls -l ~/dtest_jars
         no_output_timeout: 15m
-        command: |
-          echo "cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt"
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
-
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
-            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
-          fi
-
-          java -version
-          cd ~/cassandra-dtest
-          mkdir -p /tmp/dtest
-
-          echo "env: $(env)"
-          echo "** done env"
-          mkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests
-          # we need the "set -o pipefail" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee
-          export SPLIT_TESTS=`cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt`
-          set -o pipefail && cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --execute-upgrade-tests --log-level="INFO" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.xml -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt
-    - store_test_results:
-        path: /tmp/results
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: /tmp/dtest
-        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_logs
+    - persist_to_workspace:
+        root: /home/cassandra
+        paths:
+        - dtest_jars
     environment:
     - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
@@ -606,6 +676,16 @@ workflows:
   build_and_run_tests:
     jobs:
     - build
+    - start_jvm_upgrade_dtest:
+        type: approval
+        requires:
+        - build
+    - dtest_jars_build:
+        requires:
+        - start_jvm_upgrade_dtest
+    - j8_jvm_upgrade_dtests:
+        requires:
+        - dtest_jars_build
     - j8_unit_tests:
         requires:
         - build
@@ -643,453 +723,3 @@ workflows:
     - j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
         requires:
         - start_upgrade_tests
-
-# Original config.yml file:
-# version: 2.1
-# 
-# default_env_vars: &default_env_vars
-#     JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-#     ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
-#     LANG: en_US.UTF-8
-#     KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
-#     DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
-#     PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
-#     PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
-#     CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
-#     CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
-#     #Skip all syncing to disk to avoid performance issues in flaky CI environments
-#     CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
-#     DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
-#     DTEST_BRANCH: master
-#     CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 2048M
-#     CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 512M
-# 
-# j8_par_executor: &j8_par_executor
-#   executor:
-#     name: java8-executor
-#     exec_resource_class: xlarge
-#   parallelism: 100
-# 
-# j8_seq_executor: &j8_seq_executor
-#   executor:
-#     name: java8-executor
-#     exec_resource_class: xlarge
-#   parallelism: 1 # sequential, single container tests: no parallelism benefits
-# 
-# with_dtests_jobs: &with_dtest_jobs
-#         jobs:
-#             - build
-#             # Java 8 unit tests will be run automatically
-#             - j8_unit_tests:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - j8_jvm_dtests:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             # specialized unit tests (all run on request using Java 8)
-#             - start_utests_long:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - utests_long:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_utests_long
-#             - start_utests_compression:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - utests_compression:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_utests_compression
-#             # Java 8 dtests (on request)
-#             - start_j8_dtests:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_j8_dtests
-#             - j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_j8_dtests
-#             # Java 8 upgrade tests
-#             - start_upgrade_tests:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_upgrade_tests
-# 
-# with_dtest_jobs_only: &with_dtest_jobs_only
-#         jobs:
-#             - build
-#             - j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-#                   requires:
-#                       - build
-#             - j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
-#                   requires:
-#                       - build
-# 
-# workflows:
-#     version: 2
-#     build_and_run_tests: *with_dtest_jobs
-#     #build_and_run_tests: *with_dtest_jobs_only
-# 
-# executors:
-#   java8-executor:
-#     parameters:
-#       exec_resource_class:
-#         type: string
-#         default: medium
-#     docker:
-#       - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
-#     resource_class: << parameters.exec_resource_class >>
-#     working_directory: ~/
-#     shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-#     environment:
-#       <<: *default_env_vars
-#       JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-#       JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-# 
-# jobs:
-#   build:
-#     executor: java8-executor
-#     parallelism: 1 # This job doesn't benefit from parallelism
-#     steps:
-#       - log_environment
-#       - clone_cassandra
-#       - build_cassandra
-#       - run_eclipse_warnings
-#       - persist_to_workspace:
-#             root: /home/cassandra
-#             paths:
-#                 - cassandra
-#                 - .m2
-# 
-#   j8_unit_tests:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - create_junit_containers
-#       - log_environment
-#       - run_parallel_junit_tests
-# 
-#   j8_jvm_dtests:
-#     <<: *j8_seq_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - run_junit_tests:
-#           target: test-jvm-dtest-forking
-# 
-#   utests_long:
-#     <<: *j8_seq_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - run_junit_tests:
-#           target: long-test
-# 
-#   utests_compression:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - create_junit_containers
-#       - log_environment
-#       - run_parallel_junit_tests:
-#           target: testclasslist-compression
-# 
-#   j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - clone_dtest
-#       - create_venv
-#       - create_dtest_containers:
-#           file_tag: j8_with_vnodes
-#           run_dtests_extra_args: '--use-vnodes --skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-#       - run_dtests:
-#           file_tag: j8_with_vnodes
-#           pytest_extra_args: '--use-vnodes --num-tokens=32 --skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-# 
-#   j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - clone_dtest
-#       - create_venv
-#       - create_dtest_containers:
-#           file_tag: j8_without_vnodes
-#           run_dtests_extra_args: '--skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-#       - run_dtests:
-#           file_tag: j8_without_vnodes
-#           pytest_extra_args: '--skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-# 
-#   j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - clone_dtest
-#       - create_venv
-#       - create_dtest_containers:
-#           file_tag: j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-#           run_dtests_extra_args: '--execute-upgrade-tests'
-#           extra_env_args: 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true'
-#           tests_filter_pattern: '^upgrade_tests'
-#       - run_dtests:
-#           file_tag: j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-#           extra_env_args: 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true'
-#           pytest_extra_args: '--execute-upgrade-tests'
-# 
-# commands:
-#   log_environment:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Log Environment Information
-#         command: |
-#           echo '*** id ***'
-#           id
-#           echo '*** cat /proc/cpuinfo ***'
-#           cat /proc/cpuinfo
-#           echo '*** free -m ***'
-#           free -m
-#           echo '*** df -m ***'
-#           df -m
-#           echo '*** ifconfig -a ***'
-#           ifconfig -a
-#           echo '*** uname -a ***'
-#           uname -a
-#           echo '*** mount ***'
-#           mount
-#           echo '*** env ***'
-#           env
-#           echo '*** java ***'
-#           which java
-#           java -version
-# 
-#   clone_cassandra:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Clone Cassandra Repository (via git)
-#         command: |
-#           git clone --single-branch --depth 1 --branch $CIRCLE_BRANCH git://github.com/$CIRCLE_PROJECT_USERNAME/$CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME.git ~/cassandra
-# 
-#   clone_dtest:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
-#         command: |
-#           git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-# 
-#   build_cassandra:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Build Cassandra
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           cd ~/cassandra
-#           # Loop to prevent failure due to maven-ant-tasks not downloading a jar..
-#           for x in $(seq 1 3); do
-#               ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar
-#               RETURN=\"$?\"
-#               if [ \"${RETURN}\" -eq \"0\" ]; then
-#                   break
-#               fi
-#           done
-#           # Exit, if we didn't build successfully
-#           if [ \"${RETURN}\" -ne \"0\" ]; then
-#               echo \"Build failed with exit code: ${RETURN}\"
-#               exit ${RETURN}
-#           fi
-#         no_output_timeout: 15m
-# 
-#   run_eclipse_warnings:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Run eclipse-warnings
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           cd ~/cassandra
-#           ant eclipse-warnings
-# 
-#   create_junit_containers:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Determine Unit Tests to Run
-#         command: |
-#           # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
-#           # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
-#           # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
-# 
-#           rm -fr ~/cassandra-dtest/upgrade_tests
-#           echo \"***java tests***\"
-# 
-#           # get all of our unit test filenames
-#           set -eo pipefail && circleci tests glob \"$HOME/cassandra/test/unit/**/*.java\" > /tmp/all_java_unit_tests.txt
-# 
-#           # split up the unit tests into groups based on the number of containers we have
-#           set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=filename --index=${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX} --total=${CIRCLE_NODE_TOTAL} /tmp/all_java_unit_tests.txt > /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}.txt
-#           set -eo pipefail && cat /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}.txt | cut -c 37-1000000 | grep \"Test\\.java$\" > /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt
-#           echo \"** /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt\"
-#           cat /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt
-# 
-#         no_output_timeout: 15m
-# 
-#   run_junit_tests:
-#     parameters:
-#       target:
-#         type: string
-#       no_output_timeout:
-#         type: string
-#         default: 15m
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Run Unit Tests (<<parameters.target>>)
-#         # Please note that we run `clean` and therefore rebuild the project, as we can't run tests on Java 8 in case
-#         # based on Java 11 builds.
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
-#           cd /tmp/cassandra
-#           ant clean <<parameters.target>>
-#         no_output_timeout: <<parameters.no_output_timeout>>
-#     - store_test_results:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output
-#         destination: junitxml
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/logs
-#         destination: logs
-# 
-#   run_parallel_junit_tests:
-#     parameters:
-#       target:
-#         type: string
-#         default: testclasslist
-#       no_output_timeout:
-#         type: string
-#         default: 15m
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Run Unit Tests (<<parameters.target>>)
-#         # Please note that we run `clean` and therefore rebuild the project, as we can't run tests on Java 8 in case
-#         # based on Java 11 builds.
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
-#           cd /tmp/cassandra
-#           ant <<parameters.target>> -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
-#         no_output_timeout: <<parameters.no_output_timeout>>
-#     - store_test_results:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output
-#         destination: junitxml
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/logs
-#         destination: logs
-# 
-#   create_venv:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-#         command: |
-#           # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-#           # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-#           # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-#           # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-#           source ~/env/bin/activate
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-#           pip3 freeze
-# 
-#   create_dtest_containers:
-#     parameters:
-#       file_tag:
-#         type: string
-#       run_dtests_extra_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#       extra_env_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#       tests_filter_pattern:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Determine Tests to Run (<<parameters.file_tag>>)
-#         no_output_timeout: 5m
-#         command: |
-#           # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
-#           # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
-#           # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
-# 
-#           cd cassandra-dtest
-#           source ~/env/bin/activate
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-# 
-#           if [ -n '<<parameters.extra_env_args>>' ]; then
-#             export <<parameters.extra_env_args>>
-#           fi
-# 
-#           echo \"***Collected DTests (<<parameters.file_tag>>)***\"
-#           set -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py <<parameters.run_dtests_extra_args>> --dtest-print-tests-only --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra
-#           if [ -z '<<parameters.tests_filter_pattern>>' ]; then
-#             mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>
-#           else
-#             grep -e '<<parameters.tests_filter_pattern>>' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>> || { echo \"Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build.\"; exit 0; }
-#           fi
-#           set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>> > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>.txt
-#           cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>.txt | tr '\\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt
-#           cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt
-# 
-#   run_dtests:
-#     parameters:
-#       file_tag:
-#         type: string
-#       pytest_extra_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#       extra_env_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#     steps:
-#       - run:
-#           name: Run dtests (<<parameters.file_tag>>)
-#           no_output_timeout: 15m
-#           command: |
-#             echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt\"
-#             cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt
-# 
-#             source ~/env/bin/activate
-#             export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#             if [ -n '<<parameters.extra_env_args>>' ]; then
-#               export <<parameters.extra_env_args>>
-#             fi
-# 
-#             java -version
-#             cd ~/cassandra-dtest
-#             mkdir -p /tmp/dtest
-# 
-#             echo \"env: $(env)\"
-#             echo \"** done env\"
-#             mkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests
-#             # we need the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee
-#             export SPLIT_TESTS=`cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt`
-#             set -o pipefail && cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest <<parameters.pytest_extra_args>> --log-level=\"INFO\" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_<<parameters.file_tag>>.xml -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt
-#       - store_test_results:
-#           path: /tmp/results
-#       - store_artifacts:
-#           path: /tmp/dtest
-#           destination: dtest_<<parameters.file_tag>>
-#       - store_artifacts:
-#           path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-#           destination: dtest_<<parameters.file_tag>>_logs
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml.LOWRES b/.circleci/config.yml.LOWRES
index 0d56e23..d80b78d 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml.LOWRES
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml.LOWRES
@@ -1,5 +1,51 @@
 version: 2
 jobs:
+  j8_jvm_upgrade_dtests:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: medium
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 1
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Run Unit Tests (test-jvm-upgrade-dtest-forking)
+        command: |
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
+          cd /tmp/cassandra
+          if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
+            cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
+          fi
+          ant clean test-jvm-upgrade-dtest-forking
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output
+        destination: junitxml
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/logs
+        destination: logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   build:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
@@ -81,6 +127,163 @@ jobs:
     - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
     - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+  j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: medium
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 4
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        command: |
+          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
+    - run:
+        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
+        command: |
+          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
+          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
+          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
+          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
+          pip3 freeze
+    - run:
+        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 5m
+        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\necho \"***Collected DTests (j8_without_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --skip-resource-inten [...]
+    - run:
+        name: Run dtests (j8_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\"\ncat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\njava -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env: $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the [...]
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/results
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/dtest
+        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
+        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes_logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+  j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: medium
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 4
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        command: |
+          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
+    - run:
+        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
+        command: |
+          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
+          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
+          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
+          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
+          pip3 freeze
+    - run:
+        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 5m
+        command: |
+          # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
+          # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
+          # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
+
+          cd cassandra-dtest
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+
+          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
+            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
+          fi
+
+          echo "***Collected DTests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)***"
+          set -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --execute-upgrade-tests --dtest-print-tests-only --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra
+          if [ -z '^upgrade_tests' ]; then
+            mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
+          else
+            grep -e '^upgrade_tests' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes || { echo "Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build."; exit 0; }
+          fi
+          set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt
+          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt | tr '\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
+          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
+    - run:
+        name: Run dtests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+        command: |
+          echo "cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt"
+          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
+
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
+            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
+          fi
+
+          java -version
+          cd ~/cassandra-dtest
+          mkdir -p /tmp/dtest
+
+          echo "env: $(env)"
+          echo "** done env"
+          mkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests
+          # we need the "set -o pipefail" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee
+          export SPLIT_TESTS=`cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt`
+          set -o pipefail && cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --execute-upgrade-tests --log-level="INFO" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.xml -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/results
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/dtest
+        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
+        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   j8_unit_tests:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
@@ -165,6 +368,64 @@ jobs:
     - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
     - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+  j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
+    docker:
+    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
+    resource_class: medium
+    working_directory: ~/
+    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
+    parallelism: 4
+    steps:
+    - attach_workspace:
+        at: /home/cassandra
+    - run:
+        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        command: |
+          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
+    - run:
+        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
+        command: |
+          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
+          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
+          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
+          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
+          source ~/env/bin/activate
+          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
+          pip3 freeze
+    - run:
+        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_with_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 5m
+        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\necho \"***Collected DTests (j8_with_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --use-vnodes --skip-reso [...]
+    - run:
+        name: Run dtests (j8_with_vnodes)
+        no_output_timeout: 15m
+        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\"\ncat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\nexport PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\njava -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env: $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit  [...]
+    - store_test_results:
+        path: /tmp/results
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: /tmp/dtest
+        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes
+    - store_artifacts:
+        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
+        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes_logs
+    environment:
+    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
+    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
+    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
+    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
+    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
+    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
+    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
+    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
+    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
+    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
+    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
+    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
+    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   j8_jvm_dtests:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
@@ -181,6 +442,9 @@ jobs:
           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
           cd /tmp/cassandra
+          if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
+            cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
+          fi
           ant clean test-jvm-dtest-forking
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
@@ -224,6 +488,9 @@ jobs:
           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
           cd /tmp/cassandra
+          if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
+            cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
+          fi
           ant clean long-test
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
@@ -335,255 +602,58 @@ jobs:
     - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
     - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-  j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-    docker:
-    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
-    resource_class: medium
-    working_directory: ~/
-    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-    parallelism: 4
-    steps:
-    - attach_workspace:
-        at: /home/cassandra
-    - run:
-        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
-        command: |
-          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-    - run:
-        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-        command: |
-          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-          pip3 freeze
-    - run:
-        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_with_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 5m
-        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently\
-          \ executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci\
-          \ script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via\
-          \ the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          echo \"***Collected DTests (j8_with_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py\
-          \ --use-vnodes --skip-resource-intensive-tests --dtest-print-tests-only\
-          \ --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra\n\
-          if [ -z '' ]; then\n  mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes\n\
-          else\n  grep -e '' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes\
-          \ || { echo \"Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build.\"; exit 0;\
-          \ }\nfi\nset -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname\
-          \ /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes.txt\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes.txt | tr '\\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n"
-    - run:
-        name: Run dtests (j8_with_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 15m
-        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\"\ncat\
-          \ /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          java -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env:\
-          \ $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need\
-          \ the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will\
-          \ actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee\nexport SPLIT_TESTS=`cat\
-          \ /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_with_vnodes_final.txt`\nset -o pipefail && cd\
-          \ ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --use-vnodes --num-tokens=32 --skip-resource-intensive-tests\
-          \ --log-level=\"INFO\" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_with_vnodes.xml\
-          \ -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS\
-          \ 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt\n"
-    - store_test_results:
-        path: /tmp/results
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: /tmp/dtest
-        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-        destination: dtest_j8_with_vnodes_logs
-    environment:
-    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
-    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
-    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
-    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
-    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
-    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
-    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
-    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
-    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
-    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
-    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
-    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-  j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
+  dtest_jars_build:
     docker:
     - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
     resource_class: medium
     working_directory: ~/
     shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-    parallelism: 4
-    steps:
-    - attach_workspace:
-        at: /home/cassandra
-    - run:
-        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
-        command: |
-          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-    - run:
-        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-        command: |
-          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-          pip3 freeze
-    - run:
-        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_without_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 5m
-        command: "# reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently\
-          \ executed on every circle container\n# so the goal here is to get the circleci\
-          \ script to return the tests *this* container will run\n# which we do via\
-          \ the `circleci` cli tool.\n\ncd cassandra-dtest\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\n\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          echo \"***Collected DTests (j8_without_vnodes)***\"\nset -eo pipefail &&\
-          \ ./run_dtests.py --skip-resource-intensive-tests --dtest-print-tests-only\
-          \ --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_raw\
-          \ --cassandra-dir=../cassandra\nif [ -z '' ]; then\n  mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_raw\
-          \ /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes\nelse\n  grep -e '' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_raw\
-          \ > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes || { echo \"Filter did not match\
-          \ any tests! Exiting build.\"; exit 0; }\nfi\nset -eo pipefail && circleci\
-          \ tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes\
-          \ > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes.txt\ncat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes.txt\
-          \ | tr '\\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n"
-    - run:
-        name: Run dtests (j8_without_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 15m
-        command: "echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\"\n\
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt\n\nsource ~/env/bin/activate\n\
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\nif [ -n '' ]; then\n  export \nfi\n\n\
-          java -version\ncd ~/cassandra-dtest\nmkdir -p /tmp/dtest\n\necho \"env:\
-          \ $(env)\"\necho \"** done env\"\nmkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests\n# we need\
-          \ the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will\
-          \ actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee\nexport SPLIT_TESTS=`cat\
-          \ /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_without_vnodes_final.txt`\nset -o pipefail &&\
-          \ cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --skip-resource-intensive-tests --log-level=\"\
-          INFO\" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_without_vnodes.xml\
-          \ -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS\
-          \ 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt\n"
-    - store_test_results:
-        path: /tmp/results
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: /tmp/dtest
-        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-        destination: dtest_j8_without_vnodes_logs
-    environment:
-    - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
-    - LANG: en_US.UTF-8
-    - KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
-    - DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
-    - PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
-    - PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
-    - CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
-    - CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
-    - DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
-    - DTEST_BRANCH: master
-    - CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
-    - CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
-    - JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-    - JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-  j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
-    docker:
-    - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
-    resource_class: medium
-    working_directory: ~/
-    shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-    parallelism: 4
+    parallelism: 1
     steps:
     - attach_workspace:
         at: /home/cassandra
     - run:
-        name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
+        name: Build Cassandra DTest jars
         command: |
-          git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-    - run:
-        name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-        command: |
-          # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-          # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-          # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-          # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-          pip3 freeze
-    - run:
-        name: Determine Tests to Run (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
-        no_output_timeout: 5m
-        command: |
-          # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
-          # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
-          # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
-
-          cd cassandra-dtest
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-
-          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
-            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
-          fi
-
-          echo "***Collected DTests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)***"
-          set -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py --execute-upgrade-tests --dtest-print-tests-only --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra
-          if [ -z '^upgrade_tests' ]; then
-            mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-          else
-            grep -e '^upgrade_tests' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes || { echo "Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build."; exit 0; }
-          fi
-          set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.txt | tr '\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
-    - run:
-        name: Run dtests (j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes)
+          cd ~/cassandra
+          git remote add apache git://github.com/apache/cassandra.git
+          for branch in cassandra-2.2 cassandra-3.0 cassandra-3.11 trunk; do
+            # check out the correct cassandra version:
+            git remote set-branches --add apache '$branch'
+            git fetch --depth 1 apache $branch
+            git checkout $branch
+            # Loop to prevent failure due to maven-ant-tasks not downloading a jar..
+            for x in $(seq 1 3); do
+                ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar dtest-jar
+                RETURN="$?"
+                if [ "${RETURN}" -eq "0" ]; then
+                    break
+                fi
+            done
+            # Exit, if we didn't build successfully
+            if [ "${RETURN}" -ne "0" ]; then
+                echo "Build failed with exit code: ${RETURN}"
+                exit ${RETURN}
+            fi
+          done
+          # and build the dtest-jar for the branch under test
+          git checkout origin/$CIRCLE_BRANCH
+          for x in $(seq 1 3); do
+              ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar dtest-jar
+              RETURN="$?"
+              if [ "${RETURN}" -eq "0" ]; then
+                  break
+              fi
+          done
+          mkdir ~/dtest_jars
+          cp build/dtest*.jar ~/dtest_jars
+          ls -l ~/dtest_jars
         no_output_timeout: 15m
-        command: |
-          echo "cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt"
-          cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt
-
-          source ~/env/bin/activate
-          export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-          if [ -n 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true' ]; then
-            export RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true
-          fi
-
-          java -version
-          cd ~/cassandra-dtest
-          mkdir -p /tmp/dtest
-
-          echo "env: $(env)"
-          echo "** done env"
-          mkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests
-          # we need the "set -o pipefail" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee
-          export SPLIT_TESTS=`cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_final.txt`
-          set -o pipefail && cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest --execute-upgrade-tests --log-level="INFO" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes.xml -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt
-    - store_test_results:
-        path: /tmp/results
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: /tmp/dtest
-        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-    - store_artifacts:
-        path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-        destination: dtest_j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes_logs
+    - persist_to_workspace:
+        root: /home/cassandra
+        paths:
+        - dtest_jars
     environment:
     - JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
     - ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
@@ -606,6 +676,16 @@ workflows:
   build_and_run_tests:
     jobs:
     - build
+    - start_jvm_upgrade_dtest:
+        type: approval
+        requires:
+        - build
+    - dtest_jars_build:
+        requires:
+        - start_jvm_upgrade_dtest
+    - j8_jvm_upgrade_dtests:
+        requires:
+        - dtest_jars_build
     - j8_unit_tests:
         requires:
         - build
@@ -643,453 +723,3 @@ workflows:
     - j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
         requires:
         - start_upgrade_tests
-
-# Original config.yml file:
-# version: 2.1
-# 
-# default_env_vars: &default_env_vars
-#     JAVA8_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-#     ANT_HOME: /usr/share/ant
-#     LANG: en_US.UTF-8
-#     KEEP_TEST_DIR: true
-#     DEFAULT_DIR: /home/cassandra/cassandra-dtest
-#     PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
-#     PYTHONUNBUFFERED: true
-#     CASS_DRIVER_NO_EXTENSIONS: true
-#     CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON: true
-#     #Skip all syncing to disk to avoid performance issues in flaky CI environments
-#     CASSANDRA_SKIP_SYNC: true
-#     DTEST_REPO: git://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest.git
-#     DTEST_BRANCH: master
-#     CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: 1024M
-#     CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE: 256M
-# 
-# j8_par_executor: &j8_par_executor
-#   executor:
-#     name: java8-executor
-#     #exec_resource_class: xlarge
-#   parallelism: 4
-# 
-# j8_seq_executor: &j8_seq_executor
-#   executor:
-#     name: java8-executor
-#     #exec_resource_class: xlarge
-#   parallelism: 1 # sequential, single container tests: no parallelism benefits
-# 
-# with_dtests_jobs: &with_dtest_jobs
-#         jobs:
-#             - build
-#             # Java 8 unit tests will be run automatically
-#             - j8_unit_tests:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - j8_jvm_dtests:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             # specialized unit tests (all run on request using Java 8)
-#             - start_utests_long:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - utests_long:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_utests_long
-#             - start_utests_compression:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - utests_compression:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_utests_compression
-#             # Java 8 dtests (on request)
-#             - start_j8_dtests:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_j8_dtests
-#             - j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_j8_dtests
-#             # Java 8 upgrade tests
-#             - start_upgrade_tests:
-#                 type: approval
-#                 requires:
-#                   - build
-#             - j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
-#                 requires:
-#                   - start_upgrade_tests
-# 
-# with_dtest_jobs_only: &with_dtest_jobs_only
-#         jobs:
-#             - build
-#             - j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-#                   requires:
-#                       - build
-#             - j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
-#                   requires:
-#                       - build
-# 
-# workflows:
-#     version: 2
-#     build_and_run_tests: *with_dtest_jobs
-#     #build_and_run_tests: *with_dtest_jobs_only
-# 
-# executors:
-#   java8-executor:
-#     parameters:
-#       exec_resource_class:
-#         type: string
-#         default: medium
-#     docker:
-#       - image: spod/cassandra-testing-ubuntu1810-java11-w-dependencies:20190306
-#     resource_class: << parameters.exec_resource_class >>
-#     working_directory: ~/
-#     shell: /bin/bash -eo pipefail -l
-#     environment:
-#       <<: *default_env_vars
-#       JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-#       JDK_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
-# 
-# jobs:
-#   build:
-#     executor: java8-executor
-#     parallelism: 1 # This job doesn't benefit from parallelism
-#     steps:
-#       - log_environment
-#       - clone_cassandra
-#       - build_cassandra
-#       - run_eclipse_warnings
-#       - persist_to_workspace:
-#             root: /home/cassandra
-#             paths:
-#                 - cassandra
-#                 - .m2
-# 
-#   j8_unit_tests:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - create_junit_containers
-#       - log_environment
-#       - run_parallel_junit_tests
-# 
-#   j8_jvm_dtests:
-#     <<: *j8_seq_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - run_junit_tests:
-#           target: test-jvm-dtest-forking
-# 
-#   utests_long:
-#     <<: *j8_seq_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - run_junit_tests:
-#           target: long-test
-# 
-#   utests_compression:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - create_junit_containers
-#       - log_environment
-#       - run_parallel_junit_tests:
-#           target: testclasslist-compression
-# 
-#   j8_dtests-with-vnodes:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - clone_dtest
-#       - create_venv
-#       - create_dtest_containers:
-#           file_tag: j8_with_vnodes
-#           run_dtests_extra_args: '--use-vnodes --skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-#       - run_dtests:
-#           file_tag: j8_with_vnodes
-#           pytest_extra_args: '--use-vnodes --num-tokens=32 --skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-# 
-#   j8_dtests-no-vnodes:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - clone_dtest
-#       - create_venv
-#       - create_dtest_containers:
-#           file_tag: j8_without_vnodes
-#           run_dtests_extra_args: '--skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-#       - run_dtests:
-#           file_tag: j8_without_vnodes
-#           pytest_extra_args: '--skip-resource-intensive-tests'
-# 
-#   j8_upgradetests-no-vnodes:
-#     <<: *j8_par_executor
-#     steps:
-#       - attach_workspace:
-#           at: /home/cassandra
-#       - clone_dtest
-#       - create_venv
-#       - create_dtest_containers:
-#           file_tag: j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-#           run_dtests_extra_args: '--execute-upgrade-tests'
-#           extra_env_args: 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true'
-#           tests_filter_pattern: '^upgrade_tests'
-#       - run_dtests:
-#           file_tag: j8_upgradetests_without_vnodes
-#           extra_env_args: 'RUN_STATIC_UPGRADE_MATRIX=true'
-#           pytest_extra_args: '--execute-upgrade-tests'
-# 
-# commands:
-#   log_environment:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Log Environment Information
-#         command: |
-#           echo '*** id ***'
-#           id
-#           echo '*** cat /proc/cpuinfo ***'
-#           cat /proc/cpuinfo
-#           echo '*** free -m ***'
-#           free -m
-#           echo '*** df -m ***'
-#           df -m
-#           echo '*** ifconfig -a ***'
-#           ifconfig -a
-#           echo '*** uname -a ***'
-#           uname -a
-#           echo '*** mount ***'
-#           mount
-#           echo '*** env ***'
-#           env
-#           echo '*** java ***'
-#           which java
-#           java -version
-# 
-#   clone_cassandra:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Clone Cassandra Repository (via git)
-#         command: |
-#           git clone --single-branch --depth 1 --branch $CIRCLE_BRANCH git://github.com/$CIRCLE_PROJECT_USERNAME/$CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME.git ~/cassandra
-# 
-#   clone_dtest:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Clone Cassandra dtest Repository (via git)
-#         command: |
-#           git clone --single-branch --branch $DTEST_BRANCH --depth 1 $DTEST_REPO ~/cassandra-dtest
-# 
-#   build_cassandra:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Build Cassandra
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           cd ~/cassandra
-#           # Loop to prevent failure due to maven-ant-tasks not downloading a jar..
-#           for x in $(seq 1 3); do
-#               ${ANT_HOME}/bin/ant clean jar
-#               RETURN=\"$?\"
-#               if [ \"${RETURN}\" -eq \"0\" ]; then
-#                   break
-#               fi
-#           done
-#           # Exit, if we didn't build successfully
-#           if [ \"${RETURN}\" -ne \"0\" ]; then
-#               echo \"Build failed with exit code: ${RETURN}\"
-#               exit ${RETURN}
-#           fi
-#         no_output_timeout: 15m
-# 
-#   run_eclipse_warnings:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Run eclipse-warnings
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           cd ~/cassandra
-#           ant eclipse-warnings
-# 
-#   create_junit_containers:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Determine Unit Tests to Run
-#         command: |
-#           # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
-#           # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
-#           # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
-# 
-#           rm -fr ~/cassandra-dtest/upgrade_tests
-#           echo \"***java tests***\"
-# 
-#           # get all of our unit test filenames
-#           set -eo pipefail && circleci tests glob \"$HOME/cassandra/test/unit/**/*.java\" > /tmp/all_java_unit_tests.txt
-# 
-#           # split up the unit tests into groups based on the number of containers we have
-#           set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=filename --index=${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX} --total=${CIRCLE_NODE_TOTAL} /tmp/all_java_unit_tests.txt > /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}.txt
-#           set -eo pipefail && cat /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}.txt | cut -c 37-1000000 | grep \"Test\\.java$\" > /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt
-#           echo \"** /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt\"
-#           cat /tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt
-# 
-#         no_output_timeout: 15m
-# 
-#   run_junit_tests:
-#     parameters:
-#       target:
-#         type: string
-#       no_output_timeout:
-#         type: string
-#         default: 15m
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Run Unit Tests (<<parameters.target>>)
-#         # Please note that we run `clean` and therefore rebuild the project, as we can't run tests on Java 8 in case
-#         # based on Java 11 builds.
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
-#           cd /tmp/cassandra
-#           ant clean <<parameters.target>>
-#         no_output_timeout: <<parameters.no_output_timeout>>
-#     - store_test_results:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output
-#         destination: junitxml
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/logs
-#         destination: logs
-# 
-#   run_parallel_junit_tests:
-#     parameters:
-#       target:
-#         type: string
-#         default: testclasslist
-#       no_output_timeout:
-#         type: string
-#         default: 15m
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Run Unit Tests (<<parameters.target>>)
-#         # Please note that we run `clean` and therefore rebuild the project, as we can't run tests on Java 8 in case
-#         # based on Java 11 builds.
-#         command: |
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           time mv ~/cassandra /tmp
-#           cd /tmp/cassandra
-#           ant <<parameters.target>> -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
-#         no_output_timeout: <<parameters.no_output_timeout>>
-#     - store_test_results:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output
-#         destination: junitxml
-#     - store_artifacts:
-#         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/logs
-#         destination: logs
-# 
-#   create_venv:
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Configure virtualenv and python Dependencies
-#         command: |
-#           # note, this should be super quick as all dependencies should be pre-installed in the docker image
-#           # if additional dependencies were added to requirmeents.txt and the docker image hasn't been updated
-#           # we'd have to install it here at runtime -- which will make things slow, so do yourself a favor and
-#           # rebuild the docker image! (it automatically pulls the latest requirements.txt on build)
-#           source ~/env/bin/activate
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#           pip3 install --upgrade -r ~/cassandra-dtest/requirements.txt
-#           pip3 freeze
-# 
-#   create_dtest_containers:
-#     parameters:
-#       file_tag:
-#         type: string
-#       run_dtests_extra_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#       extra_env_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#       tests_filter_pattern:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#     steps:
-#     - run:
-#         name: Determine Tests to Run (<<parameters.file_tag>>)
-#         no_output_timeout: 5m
-#         command: |
-#           # reminder: this code (along with all the steps) is independently executed on every circle container
-#           # so the goal here is to get the circleci script to return the tests *this* container will run
-#           # which we do via the `circleci` cli tool.
-# 
-#           cd cassandra-dtest
-#           source ~/env/bin/activate
-#           export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-# 
-#           if [ -n '<<parameters.extra_env_args>>' ]; then
-#             export <<parameters.extra_env_args>>
-#           fi
-# 
-#           echo \"***Collected DTests (<<parameters.file_tag>>)***\"
-#           set -eo pipefail && ./run_dtests.py <<parameters.run_dtests_extra_args>> --dtest-print-tests-only --dtest-print-tests-output=/tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_raw --cassandra-dir=../cassandra
-#           if [ -z '<<parameters.tests_filter_pattern>>' ]; then
-#             mv /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_raw /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>
-#           else
-#             grep -e '<<parameters.tests_filter_pattern>>' /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_raw > /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>> || { echo \"Filter did not match any tests! Exiting build.\"; exit 0; }
-#           fi
-#           set -eo pipefail && circleci tests split --split-by=timings --timings-type=classname /tmp/all_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>> > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>.txt
-#           cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>.txt | tr '\\n' ' ' > /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt
-#           cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt
-# 
-#   run_dtests:
-#     parameters:
-#       file_tag:
-#         type: string
-#       pytest_extra_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#       extra_env_args:
-#         type: string
-#         default: ''
-#     steps:
-#       - run:
-#           name: Run dtests (<<parameters.file_tag>>)
-#           no_output_timeout: 15m
-#           command: |
-#             echo \"cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt\"
-#             cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt
-# 
-#             source ~/env/bin/activate
-#             export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
-#             if [ -n '<<parameters.extra_env_args>>' ]; then
-#               export <<parameters.extra_env_args>>
-#             fi
-# 
-#             java -version
-#             cd ~/cassandra-dtest
-#             mkdir -p /tmp/dtest
-# 
-#             echo \"env: $(env)\"
-#             echo \"** done env\"
-#             mkdir -p /tmp/results/dtests
-#             # we need the \"set -o pipefail\" here so that the exit code that circleci will actually use is from pytest and not the exit code from tee
-#             export SPLIT_TESTS=`cat /tmp/split_dtest_tests_<<parameters.file_tag>>_final.txt`
-#             set -o pipefail && cd ~/cassandra-dtest && pytest <<parameters.pytest_extra_args>> --log-level=\"INFO\" --junit-xml=/tmp/results/dtests/pytest_result_<<parameters.file_tag>>.xml -s --cassandra-dir=/home/cassandra/cassandra --keep-test-dir $SPLIT_TESTS 2>&1 | tee /tmp/dtest/stdout.txt
-#       - store_test_results:
-#           path: /tmp/results
-#       - store_artifacts:
-#           path: /tmp/dtest
-#           destination: dtest_<<parameters.file_tag>>
-#       - store_artifacts:
-#           path: ~/cassandra-dtest/logs
-#           destination: dtest_<<parameters.file_tag>>_logs
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 2edc399..025e2ae 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 3.0.20
+ * Run in-jvm upgrade dtests in circleci (CASSANDRA-15506)
  * Include updates to static column in mutation size calculations (CASSANDRA-15293)
  * Fix point-in-time recoevery ignoring timestamp of updates to static columns (CASSANDRA-15292)
  * GC logs are also put under $CASSANDRA_LOG_DIR (CASSANDRA-14306)
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 5d86a3f..d24f745 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@
     <property name="test.microbench.src" value="${test.dir}/microbench"/>
     <property name="test.distributed.src" value="${test.dir}/distributed"/>
     <property name="test.distributed.listfile" value="ant-jvm-dtest-list"/>
+    <property name="test.distributed.upgrade.listfile" value="ant-jvm-dtest-upgrade-list"/>
+    <property name="test.distributed.upgrade.package" value="org.apache.cassandra.distributed.upgrade"/>
     <property name="dist.dir" value="${build.dir}/dist"/>
     <property name="tmp.dir" value="${java.io.tmpdir}"/>
 
@@ -1810,6 +1812,39 @@
     </testmacro>
   </target>
 
+  <!-- In-JVM upgrade dtests -->
+  <target name="list-jvm-upgrade-dtests" depends="build-test">
+    <java classname="org.apache.cassandra.distributed.test.TestLocator" fork="no">
+          <classpath>
+              <path refid="cassandra.classpath" />
+              <pathelement location="${test.classes}"/>
+              <pathelement location="${test.conf}"/>
+              <fileset dir="${test.lib}">
+                  <include name="**/*.jar" />
+              </fileset>
+          </classpath>
+          <arg value="${test.distributed.upgrade.listfile}"/>
+          <arg value="${test.distributed.upgrade.package}"/>
+    </java>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="test-jvm-upgrade-dtest-forking" depends="list-jvm-upgrade-dtests" description="Execute In-JVM 'distributed' upgrade tests" >
+    <chmod file="${test.distributed.upgrade.listfile}" perm="+x"/>
+    <exec executable="./${test.distributed.upgrade.listfile}" failonerror="true"/>
+    <delete file="${test.distributed.upgrade.listfile}"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="test-jvm-upgrade-dtest" depends="build-test" description="Execute in-jvm dtests">
+    <testmacro inputdir="${test.distributed.src}" timeout="${test.distributed.timeout}" forkmode="once" showoutput="true" filter="**/upgrade/*Test.java">
+      <jvmarg value="-Dlogback.configurationFile=test/conf/logback-dtest.xml"/>
+      <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.ring_delay_ms=10000"/>
+      <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.tolerate_sstable_size=true"/>
+      <jvmarg value="-Djava.io.tmpdir=${tmp.dir}"/>
+      <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.skip_sync=true" />
+      <jvmarg value="-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512M"/>
+    </testmacro>
+  </target>
+
   <!-- Use this with an FQDN for test class, and a csv list of methods like this:
       ant test-jvm-dtest-some -Dtest.name=org.apache.cassandra.distributed.test.ResourceLeakTest -Dtest.methods=looperTest
     -->
diff --git a/test/distributed/org/apache/cassandra/distributed/test/TestLocator.java b/test/distributed/org/apache/cassandra/distributed/test/TestLocator.java
index a7ad400..e566910 100644
--- a/test/distributed/org/apache/cassandra/distributed/test/TestLocator.java
+++ b/test/distributed/org/apache/cassandra/distributed/test/TestLocator.java
@@ -39,14 +39,18 @@ public class TestLocator
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable
     {
         String outputFileName = defaultOutputFileName;
-        if (args.length == 1)
+        if (args.length >= 1)
         {
             outputFileName = args[0];
         }
+        String testPackage = TestLocator.testPackage;
+        if (args.length == 2)
+            testPackage = args[1];
         try (FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(outputFileName);
              PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(fileWriter))
         {
             printWriter.println("#!/bin/bash");
+            printWriter.println("ret=0");
             for (Class testClass : locateClasses(testPackage))
             {
                 for (Method method : testClass.getMethods())
@@ -57,8 +61,10 @@ public class TestLocator
                     printWriter.println(String.format(testCommandFormat,
                                                       testClass.getName(),
                                                       method.getName()));
+                    printWriter.println("if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then ret=1; fi");
                 }
             }
+            printWriter.println("exit $ret");
         }
     }
 


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