Update changelog, news and build version in preparation of 0.8.3

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/branches/cassandra-0.8@1153191 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

CHANGES.txt

@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@
    (CASSANDRA-2960)
  * fix assertion error during compaction of counter CFs (CASSANDRA-2968)
  * avoid trying to create index names, when no index exists (CASSANDRA-2867)
+ * fix dynamic snitch ignoring nodes when read_repair_chance is zero
+   (CASSANDRA-2662)
+ * don't sample the system table when choosing a bootstrap token
+   (CASSANDRA-2825)
+ * gossiper notifies of local state changes (CASSANDRA-2948)
+ * add asynchronous and half-sync/half-async thrift servers (CASSANDRA-1405)
  * fix potential use of free'd native memory in SerializingCache 
    (CASSANDRA-2951)
 

NEWS.txt

@@ -7,6 +7,20 @@ Upgrading
       0.8.3 will not work, so the entire cluster will need to be running 0.8.3
       first, except for the dead node.
 
+Features
+--------
+    - It is now possible to use thrift asynchronous and
+      half-synchronous/half-asynchronous servers (see cassandra.yaml for more
+      details).
+    - It is now possible to access counter columns through Hadoop.
+
+Other
+-----
+    - This release fix a regression of 0.8 that can make commit log segment to
+      be deleted even though not all data it contains has been flushed.
+      Upgrades from 0.8.* is very much encouraged.
+
+
 0.8.2
 =====
 

build.xml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information (we need the default SCM info as people may checkout with git-svn) -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="0.8.2"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="0.8.3"/>
     <property name="scm.default.path" value="cassandra/branches/cassandra-0.8"/>
     <property name="scm.default.connection" value="scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/${scm.default.path}"/>
     <property name="scm.default.developerConnection" value="scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/${scm.default.path}"/>

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+cassandra (0.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New release
+
+ -- Sylvain Lebresne <slebresne@apache.org>  Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:54:04 +0200
+
 cassandra (0.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New release