[ANN] hbase 0.18.0 available

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HBase 0.18.0 fixes 57 issues [1] since the HBase 0.2.0 release.  New 
features include experimental transaction support and client-side 
exposure of row locks.

HBase 0.18.0 runs on Hadoop 0.18.0.
With this release, HBase major+minor version now echoes that of the 
Hadoop core version it depends on.  See FAQ #18 and #19 for more on 
HBase versioning [2].

Thanks to all who contributed to this release.

Yours,
The HBase Team

1. http://tinyurl.com/4zl9ch
2. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/FAQ#18