The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Apache HBase 1.2.5.
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware. To learn more about HBase, see https://hbase.apache.org/. HBase 1.2.5 is the latest maintenance release in the HBase 1.2 line, continuing on the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Hadoop and NoSQL communities. This release includes over 50 resolved issues since the 1.2.4 release. Incompatibilities: * HBASE-17725 There is an incompatible change to the LimitedPrivate API 'RpcServiceInterface'. Apache Phoenix is not impacted. Critical fixes include: * HBASE-17069 RegionServer writes invalid META entries for split daughters in some circumstances * HBASE-17044 Fix merge failed before creating merged region leaves meta inconsistent * HBASE-17206 FSHLog may roll a new writer successfully with unflushed entries * HBASE-16765 New SteppingRegionSplitPolicy, avoid too aggressive spread of regions for small tables. The full list of issues can be found in the CHANGES.txt file included in the release and online at: https://s.apache.org/hbase-1.2.5-jira-releasenotes Download through an ASF mirror near you: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/1.2.5 The relevant checksums files are available at: https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.2.5/hbase-1.2.5-src.tar.gz.mds https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.2.5/hbase-1.2.5-bin.tar.gz.mds Project member signature keys can be found at https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/KEYS PGP signatures are available at: https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.2.5/hbase-1.2.5-src.tar.gz.asc https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.2.5/hbase-1.2.5-bin.tar.gz.asc For instructions on verifying ASF release downloads, please see https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi#verify Question, comments, and problems are always welcome at: dev@hbase.apache.org. Cheers, The HBase Dev Team