Cassandra 0.8.0 has been released

They fixed the driver issue by adding "CQL". The new interface should be simpler for people to pick up and understand since it is similar to SQL. Some slides on CQL: http://www.slideshare.net/shotaz/cql-cassandra-query-languag...

Would be nice if their release notes were somewhere easily found. Nothing on the download page. Google searching doesn't even find it easily.

The email announcing the release has some high level information:

The complete list of changes:

Thumbs up for the counter feature:

"Cassandra also has distributed counters now. With counters, you can count stuff, and counting stuff rocks."