Apache HBase 0.98.21 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 at the bottom of this announcement.
Thanks to all who contributed to this release. Best, The HBase Dev Team 1. http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/ 2. https://s.apache.org/orQB HBASE-11144 Filter to support scanning multiple row key ranges HBASE-13594 MultiRowRangeFilter shouldn't call HBaseZeroCopyByteString.wrap() directly HBASE-13704 Hbase throws OutOfOrderScannerNextException when MultiRowRangeFilter is used HBASE-14206 MultiRowRangeFilter returns records whose rowKeys are out of allowed ranges HBASE-14548 Expand how table coprocessor jar and dependency path can be specified HBASE-15115 Fix findbugs complaints in hbase-client HBASE-15119 Include git SHA in check_compatibility reports HBASE-15729 Remove old JDiff wrapper scripts in dev-support HBASE-15746 Remove extra RegionCoprocessor preClose() in RSRpcServices#closeRegion HBASE-15783 AccessControlConstants#OP_ATTRIBUTE_ACL_STRATEGY_CELL_FIRST not used any more. HBASE-15870 Specify columns in REST multi gets HBASE-15946 Eliminate possible security concerns in RS web UI's store file metrics HBASE-15975 logic in TestHTableDescriptor#testAddCoprocessorWithSpecStr is wrong HBASE-15976 RegionServerMetricsWrapperRunnable will be failure when disable blockcache. HBASE-15990 The priority value of subsequent coprocessors in the Coprocessor.Priority.SYSTEM list are not incremented by one HBASE-16007 Job's Configuration should be passed to TableMapReduceUtil#addDependencyJars() in WALPlayer HBASE-16012 Major compaction can't work due to obsolete scanner read point in RegionServer HBASE-16032 Possible memory leak in StoreScanner HBASE-16033 Add more details in logging of responseTooSlow/TooLarge HBASE-16045 endtime argument for VerifyReplication was incorrectly specified in usage HBASE-16048 Tag InternalScanner with LimitedPrivate(HBaseInterfaceAudience.COPROC) HBASE-16052 Improve HBaseFsck Scalability HBASE-16055 PutSortReducer loses any Visibility/acl attribute set on the Puts HBASE-16061 Allow logging to a buffered console HBASE-16070 Mapreduce Serialization classes do not have Interface audience HBASE-16073 update compatibility_checker for jacc dropping comma sep args HBASE-16085 Add on metric for failed compactions HBASE-16090 ResultScanner is not closed in SyncTable#finishRemainingHashRanges() HBASE-16091 Canary takes lot more time when there are delete markers in the table HBASE-16093 Splits failed before creating daughter regions leave meta inconsistent HBASE-16095 Add priority to TableDescriptor and priority region open thread pool HBASE-16108 RowCounter should support multiple key ranges HBASE-16124 Make check_compatibility.sh less verbose when building HBase HBASE-16129 check_compatibility.sh is broken when using Java API Compliance Checker v1.7 HBASE-16135 PeerClusterZnode under rs of removed peer may never be deleted HBASE-16154 bring non-master branches up to date wrt check_compatibility script HBASE-16160 Get the UnsupportedOperationException when using delegation token with encryption HBASE-16175 Backport HBASE-15650 (Remove TimeRangeTracker as point of contention when many threads reading a StoreFile) to 0.98 HBASE-16194 Should count in MSLAB chunk allocation into heap size change when adding duplicate cells HBASE-16195 Should not add chunk into chunkQueue if not using chunk pool in HeapMemStoreLAB HBASE-16201 NPE in RpcServer causing intermittent UT failure of TestMasterReplication#testHFileCyclicReplication HBASE-16207 can't restore snapshot without "Admin" permission HBASE-16220 Demote log level for "HRegionFileSystem - No StoreFiles for" messages to TRACE HBASE-16227 [Shell] Column value formatter not working in scans HBASE-16241 Allow specification of annotations to use when running check_compatibility.sh HBASE-16244 LocalHBaseCluster start timeout should be configurable HBASE-16272 Overflow in ServerName's compareTo method HBASE-16275 Change ServerManager#onlineServers from ConcurrentHashMap to ConcurrentSkipListMap HBASE-16281 TestMasterReplication is flaky HBASE-16284 Unauthorized client can shutdown the cluster HBASE-16288 HFile intermediate block level indexes might recurse forever creating multi TB files HBASE-16296 Reverse scan performance degrades when using filter lists HBASE-16300 LruBlockCache.CACHE_FIXED_OVERHEAD should calculate LruBlockCache size correctly HBASE-16319 Fix TestCacheOnWrite after HBASE-16288 HBASE-16321 Ensure findbugs jsr305 jar isn't present HBASE-16350 Undo server abort from HBASE-14968 HBASE-16352 Port HBASE-15645 (hbase.rpc.timeout is not used in operations of HTable) to 0.98 -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
