[CASSANDRA-19554] Website - Download section - Update / remove EOL dates

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: NA
• Component/s: Documentation/Website
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/commit/f313e9f866051fb767c7006012df5f089fc9bd3c

Test and Documentation Plan

Tested by running the website locally.

• Assignee: Himanshu Jindal
• Reporter: Thomas Steinmaurer

Authors

Himanshu Jindal

Reviewers

Bernardo Botella, Michael Semb Wever

• Created: 11/Apr/24 11:17
• Updated: 20/Jul/24 14:16
• Resolved: 20/Jul/24 14:16

Description

Enterprise customers with on-prem Cassandra usage can be pretty nitpicking in terms of EOL, running unsupported Cassandra versions and they often refer to what is stated in https://cassandra.apache.org/_/download.html (as the only source available?) and don't really think about the dependency to 5.0 GA, but just reflecting EOL date information there.

As of April 11, 2024, the download section states the following information:

According to that, 3.x is unmaintained, 4.0 soon to be EOL etc ...

Either remove these EOL estimates or keep them strongly maintained aligned with an updated 5.0 GA timeline.

Thanks!