I'm happy to announce the second release candidate of HBase 1.1.0 (HBase-1.1.0RC1) is available for download at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hbase/hbase-1.1.0RC1/
Maven artifacts are also available in the staging repository https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1077 Artifacts are signed with my code signing subkey 0xAD9039071C3489BD, available in the Apache keys directory https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/ndimiduk.asc. There's also a signed tag for this release at https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hbase.git;a=tag;h=9d54a2e8806dc2a283859382e2a2069a8e49ee81 HBase 1.1.0 is the first minor release in the HBase 1.x line, continuing on the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Hadoop and NoSQL communities. This release includes nearly 200 resolved issues above the 1.0.x series to date. Notable features include: - Async RPC client (HBASE-12684) - Simple RPC throttling (HBASE-11598) - Improved compaction controls (HBASE-8329, HBASE-12859) - Scan improvements (HBASE-11544, HBASE-13090) - New extension interfaces for coprocessor users, better supporting projects like Phoenix (HBASE-12972, HBASE-12975) - Per-column family flush (HBASE-10201) - WAL on SSD (HBASE-12848) - BlockCache in Memcached (HBASE-13170) - Tons of region replica enhancements around META, WAL, and bulk loading (HBASE-11574, HBASE-11568, HBASE-11571, HBASE-11567) The full list of issues can be found at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12329043 This release candidate is not materially different from the previous, including only three changes over the previous RC: HBASE-13661, HBASE-13637, HBASE-13665. Because of the small difference between this RC and the previous, and the extended period for which the previous RC was available, this vote window will be open for a modest period of 48 hours. Please try out this candidate and vote +/-1 by 23:00 Pacific time on 2015-05-13 as to whether we should release these bits as HBase 1.1.0. Thanks, Nick
