The first 0.94.0 RC is available for download here: http://people.apache.org/~larsh/hbase-0.94.0-rc0/
(The tarballs are signed by Stack this time, since I do not have a signed Apache key, yet.) HBase 0.94 is first and foremost a performance release with a few new features as well. It is wire compatible with 0.92.x. 0.92 clients should work with 0.94 servers and vice versa. You can do a rolling restart to get your 0.92.x HBase up on this 0.94.0RC. The full list of changes is available here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12316419. Please take this RC for a spin, check out the doc, etc, and vote +1/-1 by April 4th on whether we should release this as 0.94.0. Thanks. -- Lars
