[CASSANDRA-19291] Fix NEWS.txt Compact Storage section

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.12, 4.1.4, 5.0-rc1, 5.0, 5.1
• Component/s: Documentation
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/22e12adaecec9da936fb64d2cb29377942a19950

Test and Documentation Plan

Suggestion here If it makes sense I will propagate it to the rest of the branches and commit. I believe CI is not needed for NEWS.txt update.

• Assignee: Ekaterina Dimitrova
• Reporter: Ekaterina Dimitrova

Authors

Ekaterina Dimitrova

Reviewers

Paulo Motta

• Created: 23/Jan/24 19:30
• Updated: 18/Jul/24 21:11
• Resolved: 29/Jan/24 23:39

Description

In CASSANDRA-16733 we added a note that Compact Storage will no longer be supported in 5.0. The idea was that drop_compact_storage would be pulled out of the experimental version.
This did not happen, and compact storage is still around.
I think this will not be handled at least until 6.0 (major breaking changes) and it is good to be corrected. More and more people are upgrading to 4.0+ and they are confused.

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-19324 Bring ALTER ... DROP COMPACT STORAGE out of experimental