hbase-0.96.0 will be our next major release. It is intended to supplant the 0.94.x series.
hbase-0.96.0RC4 is our fifth hbase-0.96.0 release candidate. The signed tarballs are available here: http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.96.0RC4/<http://people.apache.org/~stack/0.96.0RC4/> Note that hbase-0.96.0 comes in two flavors; a build that includes and runs on hadoop-1.x and another for hadoop-2.x. You must chose the hbase that suits your hadoop context. Both sets of hbase artifacts, for hadoop1 and for hadoop2, are available in this maven staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-131/ More than 2k issues [1][2][3][4] are attributed to this version (counting fixes done against this and the 0.95.x developer series of releases). More than 260 fixes have been committed since 0.95.2. Synopsis of the main changes between 0.94.x and 0.96.x will follow soon. Please take it for a spin. We are interested in any issues found but in particular, we would appreciate feedback on how well the migration of a 0.94.x dataset to run under 0.96.0 works [5]. Should this candidate become hbase-0.96.0? Please vote +/-1 by Friday, October 11th. Thanks, St.Ack 1. 0.96.0 266 issues http://goo.gl/wLmu1Y 2. 0.95.2 340 issues http://goo.gl/4djjE9 3. 0.95.1 265 issues http://goo.gl/TcdckW 4. 0.95.0 1263 issues http://goo.gl/Iqcx2i 2. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#upgrade0.96