The 1st HBase 0.98.18 release candidate (RC0) is available for download at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hbase/hbase-0.98.18RC0/ and Maven artifacts are also available in the temporary repository https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1132/ .
The detailed source and binary compatibility report for this release with respect to the previous is available for your review at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hbase/hbase-0.98.18RC0/0.98.17_0.98.18RC0_compat_report.html . There are no reported problems or warnings. The 46 issues resolved in this release can be found at https://s.apache.org/cOY3 . I have made the following preliminary assessments of this candidate: - Build with source artifact with RAT and enforcers enabled (-Prelease) completes successfully - Unit test suite passes (7u79) - Loaded 1M rows with LTT, no errors or unexpected messages observed, all keys verified, latencies within expected range. - Loaded 10M rows with PE (randomWrite, 10 threads) while concurrently reading (randomRead, 10 threads), no errors or unexpected messages observed, reported latencies within expected range. - Built and ran unit tests with head of Apache Phoenix 4.x-HBase-0.98 branch, all pass (7u79) - Poked around the UI, seems ok Signed with my code signing key 4B6D7DF3. Please try out the candidate and vote +1/0/-1. This vote will be open for at least 72 hours. Unless objection I will try to close it Friday March 25, 2016 if we have sufficient votes. Three +1 votes from PMC will be required to release. -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
