[CASSANDRA-16509] Bump cqlsh version to 6.0.0

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-rc1, 4.0
• Component/s: CQL/Interpreter
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/021232006c65b31a058735c5cc574096be4e8fe9

Test and Documentation Plan

The change can be tested by running CQLSH

• Assignee: Jeff Widman
• Reporter: Jeff Widman

Authors

Jeff Widman

Reviewers

Benjamin Lerer

• Created: 09/Mar/21 23:23
• Updated: 11/Mar/21 17:20
• Resolved: 11/Mar/21 17:18

Description

For the Cassandra 4.x release series, please should bump the cqlsh version... This way users can report which version of cqlsh they're using, along with the protocol/server version.

It's been 5.0.1 for the cassandra 3.x series, so 6.0.0 probably makes sense because there are possible breaking changes depending on how CASSANDRA-16508 is resolved.

Right now, if a user says they're using `cqlsh` 5.0.1, we have no idea which release they're actually using because that version number hasn't been incremented for several releases, even though the code is changing.

I maintain a standalone version of `cqlsh` on PyPI for lighter-weight installs, and it'd be very helpful if the version was bumped.

I opened a PR here to fix it: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/923

Although I wasn't sure if this should be set to 6.0.0 because 6.0.0-beta5 might be more appropriate if there's another beta release planned before GA.