In my opinion this can be handled in a point release. It's not critical though important and not new functionality.
Best regards, - Andy On May 10, 2012, at 8:41 AM, "Ramkrishna.S.Vasudevan" <ramkrishna.vasude...@huawei.com> wrote: > Hi Devs > > I discussed this with Lars, thought it would be better to get the opinion of > the dev list. It is regarding the 0.94 RC > > HBASE-5964 seems to be needed if we want to run with 0.94.0 and hadoop 2.0 > (latest). Also the Guava jar related issue HBASE-5955 may also be needed > i.e HBASE-5739 patch backport is needed to solve that problem. All this > happens if we take the latest hadoop 2.0. A little older version of hadoop > 2.0 may not cause this problem. > But older version has a filehandler leak in DN side for which Todd has > provided fix in hadoop side. Refer to HDFS-3359. We can easily reproduce > this problem if we have a multiple column family table and frequent flushes > happen and it impacts HBase heavily. > > So we felt, all these issue needs to go in 0.94.0 release as we claim 0.94 > supports 0.23. > > What do you think? If you feel this is needed then we might need to go with > one more RC sinking the current one. > > Regards > Ram > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lars hofhansl [mailto:lhofha...@yahoo.com] >> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:27 AM >> To: dev@hbase.apache.org >> Subject: Re: ANN: The third hbase 0.94.0 release candidate is available >> for download >> >> Gentle reminder to please provide your votes. >> (and actually this is 4th RC, rather than the third) >> >> -- Lars >> ________________________________ >> From: lars hofhansl <lhofha...@yahoo.com> >> To: hbase-dev <dev@hbase.apache.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 4:26 PM >> Subject: ANN: The third hbase 0.94.0 release candidate is available for >> download >> >> The third 0.94.0 RC is available for download here: >> http://people.apache.org/~larsh/hbase-0.94.0-rc3/ >> (My gpg key is available from pgp.mit.edu. Key id: 7CA45750) >> >> HBase 0.94 is a performance release, and there are some interesting new >> features as well. >> >> It is wire compatible with 0.92.x. 0.92 clients should work with 0.94 >> servers and vice versa. >> >> You can do a rolling restart to get your 0.92.x HBase up on this >> 0.94.0RC. >> >> The full list of changes is available here: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=123107 >> 53&version=12316419 >> >> Please take this RC for a spin, check out the doc, etc, and vote +1/-1 >> by May 8th on whether we should release this as 0.94.0. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- Lars >