0.6.1 Release Notes | NVIDIA Cloud Functions

NVCF Self-Hosted 0.6.1 is a maintenance release. It replaces the archived Bitnami Cassandra runtime with the official Apache Cassandra 5.0.8 image and an in-house Cassandra Helm chart, removing the CVE-affected Bitnami runtime and its bundled components. Behavior is otherwise equivalent: authentication, seed discovery, metrics, schema initialization, and migrations are preserved.

Highlights

Change	Status	Summary
Cassandra off Bitnami	GA	Cassandra runs on the official Apache Cassandra 5.0.8 image, deployed by an in-house Helm chart, replacing the Bitnami image and subchart.

Cassandra runtime and chart

The Cassandra runtime image is now built on the official Apache Cassandra 5.0.8 image instead of the archived Bitnami image, and the Bitnami Cassandra Helm subchart is replaced by an in-house StatefulSet chart. This removes the CVE-affected Bitnami base and its bundled components while keeping the same operational surface: PasswordAuthenticator and CassandraAuthorizer, stable-DNS seed discovery, the Prometheus metrics exporter, keyspace initialization, and schema migrations.

The chart runs the nodes with storage_compatibility_mode: NONE to match the existing fleet’s on-disk and streaming format.

Upgrade Notes

Fresh installs need no special handling; Cassandra comes up on the official image with the in-house chart.

Existing clusters that already hold data need a migration, because the runtime image, the Helm chart shape, and the on-disk data layout all change. A normal in-place Helm upgrade does not carry an existing Bitnami-based cluster onto the new stack. Follow the 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 Upgrade procedure, which describes the supported migration methods (datacenter expansion, in-place volume adoption, backup and restore) and their trade-offs.