The first hbase 0.92.0 release candidate is available for download: http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.92.0-candidate-0/
I've posted a secure and an insecure tarball. Pick your poison. HBase 0.92.0 includes a raft of new features including: coprocessors, security, a new (self-migrating) file format, distributed log splitting, etc. There's been > 600 fixes since 0.90. See the list here: http://su.pr/1VZzl5 See the hbase book for the low-down on what hadoop version this release will run on: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hadoop There is no migration necessary. A shutdown and restart after putting in place the new HBase should be all thats involved (A rolling restart from 0.90.x to 0.92.0 will not work). That said, once you have moved to 0.92.x, there is no going back to 0.90.x after the transition has been made. Should we release this candidate as hbase 0.92.0? Take it for a spin. Check out the doc. Vote +1/-1 by December 12th. Yours, The HBasistas P.S. If you are thinking of going to 0.92 anytime soon, help us out w/ the testing if you can. This period while we are putting up release candidates is the best time for trying stuff out because if you find an ugly bug, it'll be fixed pretty tout de suite
