Apache HBase 0.98.6 is now available for download. Get it from an 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/Ur4 HBASE-8298 In shell, provide alias of 'desc' for 'describe' HBASE-9746 RegionServer can't start when replication tries to replicate to an unknown host HBASE-9875 NamespaceJanitor chore is not used HBASE-10205 ConcurrentModificationException in BucketAllocator HBASE-11059 ZK-less region assignment HBASE-11326 Use an InputFormat for ExportSnapshot HBASE-11438 [Visibility Controller] Support UTF8 character as Visibility Labels HBASE-11531 RegionStates for regions under region-in-transition znode are not updated on startup HBASE-11535 ReplicationPeer map is not thread safe HBASE-11536 Puts of region location to Meta may be out of order which causes inconsistent of region location HBASE-11546 Backport ZK-less region assignment to 0.98 HBASE-11550 Custom value for BUCKET_CACHE_BUCKETS_KEY should be sorted HBASE-11553 Abstract visibility label related services into an interface HBASE-11589 AccessControlException should be a not retriable exception HBASE-11610 Enhance remote meta updates HBASE-11615 TestZKLessAMOnCluster.testForceAssignWhileClosing failed on Jenkins HBASE-11617 incorrect AgeOfLastAppliedOp and AgeOfLastShippedOp in replication Metrics when no new replication OP HBASE-11627 RegionSplitter's rollingSplit terminated with "/ by zero", and the _balancedSplit file was not deleted properly HBASE-11659 Region state RPC call is not idempotent HBASE-11667 Comment ClientScanner logic for NSREs. HBASE-11674 LoadIncrementalHFiles should be more verbose after unrecoverable error HBASE-11678 BucketCache ramCache fills heap after running a few hours HBASE-11687 No need to abort on postOpenDeployTasks exception if region opening is cancelled HBASE-11697 Improve the 'Too many blocks' message on UI blockcache status page HBASE-11701 Start and end of memstore flush log should be on the same level HBASE-11702 Better introspection of long running compactions HBASE-11705 callQueueSize should be decremented in a fail-fast scenario HBASE-11706 Set versions for VerifyReplication HBASE-11708 RegionSplitter incorrectly calculates splitcount HBASE-11713 Adding hbase shell unit test coverage for visibility labels. HBASE-11716 LoadTestDataGeneratorWithVisibilityLabels should handle Delete mutations HBASE-11725 Backport failover checking change to 1.0 HBASE-11726 Master should fail-safe if starting with a pre 0.96 layout HBASE-11727 Assignment wait time error in case of ServerNotRunningYetException HBASE-11728 Data loss while scanning using PREFIX_TREE DATA-BLOCK-ENCODING HBASE-11731 Add option to only run a subset of the shell tests HBASE-11733 Avoid copy-paste in Master/Region CoprocessorHost HBASE-11735 Document Configurable Bucket Sizes in bucketCache HBASE-11740 RegionStates.getRegionAssignments() gets stuck on clone HBASE-11742 Backport HBASE-7987 and HBASE-11185 to 0.98 HBASE-11745 FilterAllFilter should return ReturnCode.SKIP HBASE-11748 Cleanup and add pool usage tracing to Compression HBASE-11749 Better error logging when coprocessors loading has failed. HBASE-11754 [Shell] Record table property SPLITS_FILE in descriptor HBASE-11755 VisibilityController returns the wrong value for preBalanceSwitch() HBASE-11757 Provide a common base abstract class for both RegionObserver and MasterObserver HBASE-11762 Record the class name of Codec in WAL header HBASE-11766 Backdoor CoprocessorHConnection is no longer being used for local writes HBASE-11773 Wrong field used for protobuf construction in RegionStates. HBASE-11774 Avoid allocating unnecessary tag iterators HBASE-11788 hbase is not deleting the cell when a Put with a KeyValue, KeyValue.Type.Delete is submitted HBASE-11789 LoadIncrementalHFiles is not picking up the -D option HBASE-11790 Bulk load should use HFileOutputFormat2 in all cases HBASE-11794 StripeStoreFlusher causes NullPointerException HBASE-11800 Coprocessor service methods in HTableInterface should be annotated public HBASE-11802 Scan copy constructor doesn't copy reversed member variable HBASE-11810 Access SSL Passwords through Credential Provider API HBASE-11813 CellScanner#advance may overflow stack HBASE-11814 TestAssignmentManager.testCloseFailed() and testOpenCloseRacing() is flaky HBASE-11816 Initializing custom Metrics implementation failed in Mapper or Reducer HBASE-11821 [ImportTSV] Abstract labels tags creation into pluggable Interface HBASE-11823 Cleanup javadoc warnings. HBASE-11828 callers of SeverName.valueOf should use equals and not == HBASE-11837 Scanner from RegionCoprocessorEnvironment.getTable(TableName) returns no local data HBASE-11841 [0.98] Option for disabling location prefetch HBASE-11844 region_mover.rb load enters an infinite loop if region already present on target server HBASE-11846 HStore#assertBulkLoadHFileOk should log if a full HFile verification will be performed during a bulkload HBASE-11856 hbase-common needs a log4j.properties resource for handling unit test logging output HBASE-11857 Restore ReaderBase.initAfterCompression() and WALCellCodec.create(Configuration, CompressionContext) HBASE-11863 WAL files are not archived and stays in the WAL directory after splitting HBASE-11865 Result implements CellScannable; rather it should BE a CellScanner HBASE-11868 Data loss in hlog when the hdfs is unavailable HBASE-11876 RegionScanner.nextRaw(...) should not update metrics HBASE-11878 TestVisibilityLabelsWithDistributedLogReplay#testAddVisibilityLabelsOnRSRestart sometimes fails due to VisibilityController not yet initialized HBASE-11886 The creator of the table should have all permissions on the table HBASE-11887 Memory retention in branch-1; millions of instances of LiteralByteString for column qualifier and value -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
