[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra GoCQL Driver v2.0.0-rc1 (module name change)

[João Reis]

Hi,

The Apache Cassandra team just released v2.0.0-rc1 of the Apache Cassandra GoCQL Driver.

The driver was donated to the Apache Software Foundation last year [1]. Version 1.7.0 was released post donation but the module name was kept the same and it was decided that we would change the module name to match the new repository location in the next major version (v2).

We're now getting ready for 2.0.0 GA but we decided to release 2.0.0-rc1 before GA so that users can provide feedback on it before we go forward with the GA release. We're working on updating the documentation and examples, they will be ready for the 2.0.0 GA release.

The new module name is "github.com/apache/cassandra-gocql-driver/v2". Existing users should replace all references that contain the old name "github.com/gocql/gocql" with the new name "github.com/apache/cassandra-gocql-driver/v2" in their .go files. Then they should run "go get  github.com/apache/cassandra-gocql-driver/v...@v2.0.0-rc1" or manually edit the go.mod file and finally run "go mod tidy". We don't expect new major version releases to happen frequently so users won't have to do this often.

The changelog for this release can be found at the usual place: 

https://github.com/apache/cassandra-gocql-driver/blob/trunk/CHANGELOG.md

It says "UNRELEASED" under 2.0.0 because GA hasn't happened yet but all of those JIRAs have been merged for 2.0.0-rc1 (we only have a few documentation JIRAs that are going to be merged between 2.0.0-rc1 and 2.0.0 GA, no code changes unless we need to fix issues found during this time). In any case we are going to remove this release date part from the changelog in future releases because it is not compatible with the way the voting process works for ASF releases.

Note that future communication about GoCQL releases will only be done on the Apache Cassandra mailing lists. Any communication that would have happened on this mailing list should be moved to the Apache Cassandra mailing lists (either d...@cassandra.apache.org or us...@cassandra.apache.org depending on the topic). The Apache Cassandra team does not monitor this mailing list.

If you try this release out let us know if you run into any issues so that we can fix them before GA.

Thanks,

João Reis

[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/0t08fgslyb09zjylqyooyclbprwkmm01