[superjared]

"Riak 1.0 will be available later this month."

I can't stand pre-announcements like this.

[timf]

Further, there are only three days left.. The HN title should be changed away from "Riak 1.0".

[pjscott]

This is actually an announcement of RC1 being released:

http://downloads.basho.com/riak/riak-1.0.0rc1/

I just did a rolling upgrade from 1.0b4, and it went smoothly. I love the LevelDB support, and it's holding up well under the considerable load that I'm throwing at it.

[nosequel]

Riak 1.0.0 RC2 is out now, and "later this month" is only 3 more days.

[nirvana]

I think when you've got your release candidate, you're basically done, barring any unexpected surprises. Given stable Riak has been during the beta period, I don't think they're really jumping the gun much.