Some followup: + I pushed up this release to maven repository as SNAPSHOTs. Would be interested if these published artifacts are useable at all; in particular, does our new hbase-client 'work' (i.e. does it make it so you can go against hbase cluster w/o having to put the world of hbase on your classpath). See: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/hbase/
+ I am moving all 0.95.0 issues to 0.95.1 (slowly). + Above I call the release a "Developer Release". In the past we referred to these types of releases as "Development" Series releases. Let us use the old terminology instead. It is a better description (I added section on hbase versions to upgrades section in refguide: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.versioning). Any +1s out there? St.Ack On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > Here is our first 0.95.0 release candidate. Should we put this out as > 0.95.0? > > The 0.95.x series of releases are designated "developer releases", a type > of release we have done in the past -- see the 0.89.x series -- where we > let out 'raw', barely-tested product so developers and those generally > interested can get some early exposure to what our next stable release to > follow 0.94.x will look like. Putting out these 'rough cuts' also helps > to get the feedback started earlier while the release is still baking. > > These "developer release" come with no guarantees. We make no > promises that the next release will be compatible with this one or even > that > you will be able to preserve data across the update (This is at an extreme, > and highly unlikely, but could be the case). No work has been done to make > it so you can migrate from 0.94.x HBase. > > In spite of all the caveats above, we still need to vote. Remember, the > bar > is intentionally set lower on these "developer releases"; it will have to > be > something pretty bad to block this RC going out. There should be a new > release > along in a week or two and we can address the offender there. > > The release artifacts may be downloaded from: > > http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.95.0RC0/ > > Let the vote run for a short time, say, April 3rd. Take it for a quick > spin. > > Over 1500 issues have been closed against 0.95.0. It is tough pulling out > the highlights but I think most will be interested in big improvements > in Mean Time To Recovery, a revamped metrics, support for hadoop1 and > hadoop2.... the list is long. For the full list of issues fixed see: > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12324094 > > All feedback is welcome. We'd be interested in getting feedback on > everything from the packaging, layout, through documentation, UI, and of > course, > any bugs found. > > Thanks, > St.Ack > > >
