CEP-52 is available in 6.0: Schema Annotations in CQL for #ApacheCassandra! Add inline comments and security labels to keyspaces, tables, columns, and UDTs — queryable via system views. Better documentation and classification, baked into the schema. ✍️ cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d...

CEP-58: Satellite Datacenters has passed its vote! 🛰️ Multi-region HA using 2 full DCs + small satellite nodes — lower cost than a traditional 3-DC setup, with transactionally consistent failover and zero data loss. cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d...

CEP-32: OpenTelemetry Tracing is coming to #ApacheCassandra! 🔍 Vote passed. Native OTel integration — correlate Cassandra query spans with your existing observability stack. cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d... #OpenTelemetry #NoSQL #Observability #OpenSource

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 6.0-alpha1 is out ‼️ This is a quarterly alpha release, for testing and development purposes. Download it at: downloads.apache.org/cassandra/6.... News: github.com/apache/cassa... Changelogs: github.com/apache/cassa...

A reported security incident involving Trivy (v0.69.4) may have exposed credentials via compromised code. ASF Infra has taken precautionary steps, including disabling verified creator actions. More details: news.apache.org/foundation/e...

Apache Software Foundation announced the opening of Travel Assistance Applications for next Community Over Code in Glasgow next October. tac.apache.org If you are planning to be around, please come and say hi on the @cassandra.apache.org track!

The C/C++ Driver is officially part of the project thanks to the donation from DataStax & IBM Now found at github.com/apache/cassa... Reach out if you'd like to be involved in next steps post-donation: new docs location & first release; great ways to get involved & become part of our dev community

Jon Haddad's first post in his Cassandra series on maximising cost efficiency rustyrazorblade.com/post/2025/03...

If you are in Minneapolis Nov 12th ‼️ MSP Cassandra User Group MeetUp 5-8pm Food, drinks & some great talks… 1. Future of C* based GenAI with IBM Watsonx 2. Cassandra @ Netflix – Chris Lohfink 3. ACID Transactions with C* – Aaron Ploetz 👉🏼 Register luma.com/apfa9bdt

Cassandra Constraints by Bernardo Botella Corbi Ever worried about a 4GB DVD rip being pushed into a single database column, wreaking havoc on your CDC pipeline? 📀💥 The new constraints framework gives you powerful, granular control over your data at the schema level www.youtube.com/watch?v=u93I...

If you're in Seattle Nov 11th ! C* OSS MeetUp 5:15-8:00PM Pizza & some great talks… 1. [Apple] Streaming C*: Native CDC w/ Kafka 2. [Netflix] Behind the Scenes: Empowering Live Events w/ C* 3. [AWS] AWS Commitment to OSS 4. [Uber] First-Class Support for C* MVs cassandraossmeetup.splashthat.com

We are very glad to announce that Jyothsna Konisa has accepted our invitation to become a committer ! Jyothsna has been contributing to C* for >3 years now, contributed the mTLS feature (CEP-34) & is making progress on CEP-44 (Kafka integration for CDC using Sidecar), as well as other contributions

We are very glad to announce that Saranya Krishnakumar has become a subproject committer ! Saranya has been actively contributing to the sidecar subproject, and across the project with many different people.

Saranya Krishnakumar and Francisco Guerrero presenting The Road Ahead: Next steps for Cassandra Sidecar post v0.1 www.communityovercode.org – Minneapolis

Andres Beck-Ruiz and William Nguyen presenting Performance Improvements & Upgrade Challenges: Bloomberg’s Road to Apache Cassandra 5.0 www.communityovercode.org– Minneapolis

Join us at Community over Code's Cassandra Track, Fri Sept 12th for Auto Repair in Apache Cassandra Jaydeepkumar Chovatia (Uber) and Andrew Tolbert (Apple), both Cassandra Committers. www.communityovercode.org– Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, September 11-14

Cassandra users, you'll going to love this ! [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra Sidecar 0.1.0 Downloads dlcdn.apache.org/cassandra/cassandra-sidecar/0.1.0/ repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/cassandra/ Changelog github.com/apache/cassa... More on Sidecar in its CEP cwiki.apache.org/confluence/p...

📅 Save the Date 📅 Community Over Code North America 2025 has been announced! Where: Minneapolis, MN (USA) When: September 11-14, 2025 Read more about #CommunityOverCode --> https://buff.ly/4jQx36S