On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/> >
Fair warning to people downloading from the second link without looking at it, it's RC0 and not RC2. > > 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 >
