4.19.2.0

What's Changed

• Breaking: Drop Java 8 support - Java 11 is now the minimum required runtime by @dkropachev in #900
• Fix prepare cache eviction: skip defensive copy for completed futures by @nikagra in #892
• Merge upstream apache/cassandra-java-driver 4.19.2 and bump version to 4.19.2.0 by @nikagra in #895
• Fix prepared statement cache invalidation on UDT changes by @dkropachev in #904
• fix: validate non-numeric subnet prefixes by @dkropachev
• fix: bump netty to 4.1.135.Final to remediate CVE-2026-42583, CVE-2026-44249 and CVE-2026-45416 by @nikagra in #925
• Fix NPE and channel leak in ChannelPool during reconnection (CUSTOMER-413) by @nikagra and @dkropachev in #928

New Contributors

• @sylwiaszunejko made their first contribution in #914

Full Changelog: 4.19.0.9...4.19.2.0