The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of HBase 1.2.0.
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 1.2.0 is the second minor release in the HBase 1.x line, which aims to improve the stability and reliability of HBase. This release includes roughly 250 resolved issues not covered by previous 1.x releases. Notable new features include: - JDK8 is now supported - Hadoop 2.6.1+ and Hadoop 2.7.1+ are now supported - per column-family time ranges for scan (HBASE-14355) - daemons respond to SIGHUP to reload configs (HBASE-14529) - region location methods added to thrift2 proxy (HBASE-13698) - table-level sync that sends deltas (HBASE-13639) - client side metrics via JMX (HBASE-12911) The full list of issues can be found at: https://s.apache.org/hbase-1.2.0-jira Download through an ASF mirror near you: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/1.2.0/ The relevant checksums files are available at: https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.2.0/hbase-1.2.0-src.tar.gz.mds https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.2.0/hbase-1.2.0-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/1.2.0/hbase-1.2.0-src.tar.gz.asc https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.2.0/hbase-1.2.0-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: d...@hbase.apache.org. Cheers, The HBase Dev Team
