The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Apache HBase 2.1.6.
Download from https://hbase.apache.org/downloads.html 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 2.1.6 is the latest release of the HBase 2.1 line, continuing on the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Apache Big Data ecosystem and beyond. 2.1.6 includes ~152 bug and improvement fixes done since the 2.1.5. There are several critical fixes around WAL, which may cause WAL corruption or hang the region server. Please see HBASE-22539, HBASE-22681, HBASE-22684 for more details. For instructions on verifying ASF release downloads, please see https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi#verify Project member signature keys can be found at https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/KEYS Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible! Best, The HBase Dev Team