Apache Cassandra 2.2.0-beta1 released
From the post:
The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 2.2.0-beta1.
This release is *not* production ready. We are looking for testing of existing and new features. If you encounter any problem please let us know [1].
Cassandra 2.2 features major enhancements such as:
* Resume-able Bootstrapping
* JSON Support [4]
* User Defined Functions [5]
* Server-side Aggregation [6]
* Role based access controlRead [2] and [3] to learn about all the new features.
Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download section:
http://cassandra.apache.org/download/
Enjoy!
-The Cassandra Team
[1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA
[2]: http://goo.gl/MyOEib (NEWS.txt)
[3]: http://goo.gl/MBJd1S (CHANGES.txt)
[4]: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL-2.2.html#json
[5]: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL-2.2.html#udfs
[6]: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL-2.2.html#udas
I was wondering what I would be reading this week! 
Enjoy!