Apache HBase 0.98.3 is now available for download. Get it at your nearest Apache mirror [1] or Maven repository.
The list of changes in this release can be found in the release notes [2] or following this announcement. Thanks to all who contributed to this release. Best, The HBase Dev Team 1. http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/ 2. http://s.apache.org/U7s HBASE-6990 Pretty print TTL HBASE-9445 Snapshots should create column family dirs for empty regions HBASE-9857 Blockcache prefetch option HBASE-10417 index is not incremented in PutSortReducer#reduce() HBASE-10561 Forward port: HBASE-10212 New rpc metric: number of active handler HBASE-10692 The Multi TableMap job don't support the security HBase cluster HBASE-10831 IntegrationTestIngestWithACL is not setting up LoadTestTool correctly HBASE-11048 Support setting custom priority per client RPC HBASE-11090 Backport HBASE-11083 ExportSnapshot should provide capability to limit bandwidth consumption HBASE-11096 stop method of Master and RegionServer coprocessor is not invoked HBASE-11104 IntegrationTestImportTsv#testRunFromOutputCommitter misses credential initialization HBASE-11117 [AccessController] checkAndPut/Delete hook should check only Read permission HBASE-11119 Update ExportSnapShot to optionally not use a tmp file on external file system HBASE-11128 Add -target option to ExportSnapshot to export with a different name HBASE-11133 Add an option to skip snapshot verification after Export HBASE-11134 Add a -list-snapshots option to SnapshotInfo HBASE-11137 Add mapred.TableSnapshotInputFormat HBASE-11143 Improve replication metrics HBASE-11149 Wire encryption is broken HBASE-11161 Provide example of POJO encoding with protobuf HBASE-11166 Categorize tests in hbase-prefix-tree module HBASE-11168 [docs] Remove references to RowLocks in post 0.96 docs. HBASE-11169 nit: fix incorrect javadoc in OrderedBytes about BlobVar and BlobCopy HBASE-11189 Subprocedure should be marked as complete upon failure HBASE-11200 AsyncWriter of FSHLog might throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException HBASE-11209 Increase the default value for hbase.hregion.memstore.block.multipler from 2 to 4 HBASE-11211 LoadTestTool option for specifying number of regions per server HBASE-11212 Fix increment index in KeyValueSortReducer HBASE-11217 Race between SplitLogManager task creation + TimeoutMonitor HBASE-11219 HRegionServer#createRegionLoad() should reuse RegionLoad.Builder instance when called in a loop HBASE-11220 Add listeners to ServerManager and AssignmentManager HBASE-11226 Document and increase the default value for hbase.hstore.flusher.count HBASE-11227 Mention 8- and 16-bit fixed-with encodings in OrderedBytes docstring HBASE-11234 FastDiffDeltaEncoder#getFirstKeyInBlock returns wrong result HBASE-11237 Bulk load initiated by user other than hbase fails HBASE-11251 LoadTestTool should grant READ permission for the users that are given READ access for specific cells HBASE-11253 IntegrationTestWithCellVisibilityLoadAndVerify failing since HBASE-10326 HBASE-11255 Negative request num in region load HBASE-11259 Compression.java different compressions load system classpath differently causing errors HBASE-11267 Dynamic metrics2 metrics may consume large amount of heap memory HBASE-11272 Backport HBASE-11218 (Data loss in HBase standalone mode) to 0.98 HBASE-11275 [AccessController] postCreateTable hook fails when another CP creates table on their startup HBASE-11277 RPCServer threads can wedge under high load -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)