We are testing the latest cassandra-4.0 on Centos 7 using a clean database. When we started cassandra the first time, everything is fine. However, when we stop and restart cassandra, we got the following error and the db refuses to startup:
ERROR [main] 2020-07-16 14:25:11,330 CassandraDaemon.java:789 - Exception encountered during startup
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid version value: 4.0~alpha4
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.CassandraVersion.<init>(CassandraVersion.java:64)
at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableHeaderFix.fixNonFrozenUDTIfUpgradeFrom30(SSTableHeaderFix.java:84)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:250)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:650)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:767)