Happy New Year everyone! I'm pleased to announce the first release candidate for HBase 1.2.0.
Artifacts are available here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hbase/hbase-1.2.0RC0/ As of this vote, the relevant md5 hashes are: 41c499a325ae6449fe99bbe315d07e10 hbase-1.2.0-bin.tar.gz 537874610f1b53d4bce9d8a925661246 hbase-1.2.0-src.tar.gz Maven artifacts are also available in the staging repository: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1122/ artifacts are signed with my code signing key 0D80DB7C, available in the project KEYS file: http://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/KEYS these artifacts correspond to commit hash 20c4368065165ad49bdfe8172316e42566a6d6a0 which signed tag 1.2.0RC0 currently points to https://git1-us-west.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hbase.git;a=tag;h=771e13960cf406185bb29447dffb6f2b5a56baec HBase 1.2.0 is the second 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 roughly 250 resolved issues not covered by previous 1.x releases. Notable new features include: - JDK8 is now supported - Hadoop 2.6.1+ and Hadoop 2.7.1+ are now supported - per column-family time ranges for scan (HBASE-14355) - daemons respond to SIGHUP to reload configs (HBASE-14529) - region location methods added to thrift2 proxy (HBASE-13698) - table-level sync that sends deltas (HBASE-13639) - client side metrics via JMX (HBASE-12911) The full list of issues can be found at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12332062 Please take a few minutes to verify the release[1] and vote on releasing it: [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache HBase 1.2.0 [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... Vote will be subject to Majority Approval[2] and will close at 8:00PM UTC on Monday, Jan 11th, 2016[3]. [1]: http://www.apache.org/info/verification.html [2]: https://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#MajorityApproval [3]: to find this in your local timezone see: http://s.apache.org/hbase-1.2.0-rc0-close
