Here is the second 0.95.0 release candidate. Should we put this out as 0.95.0? Please vote by friday, April 5th.
See the refguide [1] for definition of what a "Development" Series Release is (or read below where we call it a 'developer release"). In short, it is a preview release, not for production, put out early so us devs start getting feedback the sooner. The release is available here: http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.95.0RC1/ Issues fixed in this release are available here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12324094 ...including a fix for HBASE-8242, the issue that sunk the first release candidate. Thanks, St.Ack 1. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.versioning On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is our first 0.95.0 release candidate. Should we put this out as > 0.95.0? > > The 0.95.x series of releases are designated "developer releases", a type > of release we have done in the past -- see the 0.89.x series -- where we > let out 'raw', barely-tested product so developers and those generally > interested can get some early exposure to what our next stable release to > follow 0.94.x will look like. Putting out these 'rough cuts' also helps > to get the feedback started earlier while the release is still baking. > > These "developer release" come with no guarantees. We make no > promises that the next release will be compatible with this one or even > that > you will be able to preserve data across the update (This is at an extreme, > and highly unlikely, but could be the case). No work has been done to make > it so you can migrate from 0.94.x HBase. > > In spite of all the caveats above, we still need to vote. Remember, the > bar > is intentionally set lower on these "developer releases"; it will have to > be > something pretty bad to block this RC going out. There should be a new > release > along in a week or two and we can address the offender there. > > The release artifacts may be downloaded from: > > http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.95.0RC0/ > > Let the vote run for a short time, say, April 3rd. Take it for a quick > spin. > > Over 1500 issues have been closed against 0.95.0. It is tough pulling out > the highlights but I think most will be interested in big improvements > in Mean Time To Recovery, a revamped metrics, support for hadoop1 and > hadoop2.... the list is long. For the full list of issues fixed see: > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12324094 > > All feedback is welcome. We'd be interested in getting feedback on > everything from the packaging, layout, through documentation, UI, and of > course, > any bugs found. > > Thanks, > St.Ack > > >
