I'm happy to announce the third release candidate of HBase 1.1.6 (HBase-1.1 .6RC2) is available for download at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hbase/hbase-1.1.6RC2/
Maven artifacts are also available in the staging repository https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1148 Artifacts are signed with my code signing subkey 0xAD9039071C3489BD, available in the Apache keys directory https://people.apache.org/ keys/committer/ndimiduk.asc and in our KEYS file https://www-us.apache.org/ dist/hbase/KEYS. There's also a signed tag for this release at https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hbase.git;a=tag;h=dea3b9ed8239748136ee3e8010a16039a9c29410 The detailed source and binary compatibility report vs 1.1.5 has been published for your review, at http://home.apache.org/~ndimiduk/1.1.5_1.1.6RC2_compat_report.html HBase 1.1.6 is the sixth patch release in the HBase 1.1 line, continuing on the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Hadoop and NoSQL communities. This release includes over 70 bug fixes since the 1.1.5 release. Notable correctness fixes include HBASE-15698, HBASE-15856, HBASE-15878, HBASE-16012, HBASE-16056, HBASE-16093, HBASE-16132, HBASE-16237, HBASE-16288, HBASE-16420, HBASE-16429, and HBASE-16464. The full list of fixes included in this release is available at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12335679 and and in the CHANGES.txt file included in the distribution. Please try out this candidate and vote +/-1 by 23:59 Pacific time on Sunday, 2016-09-04 as to whether we should release these artifacts as HBase 1.1.6. Thanks, Nick
