hbase-0.96.0 will be our next major release. It is intended to supplant the 0.94.x series.
hbase-0.96.0RC2 is our third hbase-0.96.0 release candidate. The signed tarballs are available here: http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.96.0RC2/<http://people.apache.org/~stack/0.96.0RC0/> Note that hbase-0.96.0 comes in two flavors; a build that includes and runs on hadoop-1.x and another for hadoop-2.x. You must chose the hbase that suits your hadoop context. Both sets of hbase artifacts, for hadoop1 and for hadoop2, are available in this maven staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-076/ More than 2k issues [1] are attributed to this version (counting fixes done against this and the 0.95.x developer series of releases). More than 180 fixes have been committed since 0.95.2. I will follow up w/ a synopsis of the major changes (I know I said this about last few RC.... I still need to go through all issues... but I've made a start). Please take it for a spin. We are interested in any issues found but in particular, we would appreciate feedback on how well the migration of a 0.94.x dataset to run under 0.96.0 works [2]. Should this candidate become hbase-0.96.0? Please vote +/-1 by September 26th. Thanks, St.Ack 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20HBASE%20AND%20(%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%220.96.0%22%20or%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%220.95.0%22%20%20or%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%220.95.1%22%20or%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%220.95.2%22%20)%20AND%20(status%20%3D%20Resolved%20OR%20status%20%3D%20Closed)%20ORDER%20BY%20issuetype%20DESC%2C%20priority%20DESC 2. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#upgrade0.96
