Reading the issue, there is no description of what the implications are not
fixing HBASE-12237. It is marked critical but with no justification as to
why (HBASE-11118 is a fix for a relatively exotic deploy type).

IMO, no need of a new RC, especially on a dev release.

St.Ack

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Enis:
> Do you think a new RC should be made due to HBASE-12237 ?
>
> Cheers
>
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The first release candidate for the second release from branch-1, HBase
> > 0.99.1 RC0, is
> > available for download at
> https://people.apache.org/~enis/hbase-0.99.1RC0/
> >
> > Maven artifacts are also available in the temporary repository
> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1043/
> >
> > Signed with my code signing key E964B5FF. Can be found here:
> > https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/enis.asc
> >
> > Signed tag in the repository can be found here:
> >
> >
> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hbase.git;a=tag;h=1563ccf209d4352a40ddd229d8264d7bfee1904e
> >
> > NOTE IN GIGANTIC LETTERS THAT THIS IS A DEVELOPER RELEASE.
> > DO NOT USE THIS RELEASE IN PRODUCTION.
> >
> > HBase 0.99.1 is a "developer preview" release, and an odd-numbered
> release
> > as
> > defined in
> https://hbase.apache.org/book/upgrading.html#hbase.versioning.
> > This release IS NOT intended for production use, and does not contain any
> > backwards or forwards compatibility guarantees (even within minor
> versions
> > 0.99.x). Please refrain from deploying this over important data.
> >
> > 0.99.1 release is provided from branch-1, which will be the basis for
> > HBase-1.0
> > release. A few 0.99.x releases are planned before 1.0. The reason for
> > doing a developer preview release is to get more testing for the branch-1
> > code
> > that will be released soon as HBase-1.0.0. Thus, all contribution in
> terms
> > of
> > testing, benchmarking, checking API / source /wire compatibility,
> checking
> > out
> > documentation and further code contribution is highly appreciated. 1.0
> will
> > be
> > the first series in the 1.x line of releases which are expected to keep
> > compatibility with previous 1.x releases. Thus it is very important to
> > check
> > the client side and server side APIs for compatibility and
> maintainability
> > concerns for future releases.
> >
> > 0.99.1 builds on top of all the changes that is in the 0.99.0 release (an
> > overview can be found at [1]). The theme of (eventual) 1.0 release is to
> > become a stable base for future 1.x series of releases. 1.0 release will
> > aim to achieve at least the same level of stability of 0.98 releases
> > without introducing too many new features.
> >
> > The work to clearly mark and differentiate client facing  APIs, and
> > redefine
> > some of the client interfaces for improving semantics, easy of use and
> > maintainability has continued in 0.99.1 release. Remaining work can
> > be found in HBASE-10602. Marking/remarking of interfaces with
> > InterfaceAudience
> > has also been going on, which will identify areas for compatibility (with
> > clients, coprocessors and dependent projects like Phoenix) for future
> > releases.
> >
> > 0.99.1 changes some of the behavior for master / region colocation that
> was
> > introduced in 0.99.0 (see [1]). Now, the backup masters can no longer
> host
> > any regions. And active master can host regions of defined tables if
> > configured. Otherwise, it will not show up the region server UI similar
> to
> > a 0.98 deployment. Though master and region server still shares the same
> > rpc
> > ports. Details can be found here (HBASE-12034 and HBASE-10569).
> >
> > Some other notable improvements in this release are
> >  - [HBASE-11178] - Remove deprecation annotations from mapred namespace
> >  - [HBASE-11920] - Add CP hooks for ReplicationEndPoint
> >  - [HBASE-11997] - CopyTable with bulkload
> >  - [HBASE-12059] - Create hbase-annotations module
> >  - [HBASE-11990] - Make setting the start and stop row for a specific
> > prefix easier
> >  - [HBASE-12220] - Add hedgedReads and hedgedReadWins metrics
> >  - [HBASE-12090] - Bytes: more Unsafe, more Faster
> >  - [HBASE-12032] - Script to stop regionservers via RPC
> >  - [HBASE-11907] - Use the joni byte[] regex engine in place of j.u.regex
> > in RegexStringComparator
> >  - [HBASE-11796] - Add client support for atomic checkAndMutate
> >  - [HBASE-11804] - Raise default heap size if unspecified
> >  - [HBASE-11890] - HBase REST Client is hard coded to http protocol
> >  - [HBASE-12126] - Region server coprocessor endpoint
> >  - [HBASE-12183] - FuzzyRowFilter doesn't support reverse scans
> >  - [HBASE-12197] - Move REST (create hbase-rest module)
> >  - Continuation of the cell-based read / write pipeline work for
> > performance boost
> >  - Various fixes to REST server
> >  - Some more documentation improvements
> >  - Numerous improvements in other areas and bug fixes.
> >
> > The release has these changes in default behaviour:
> >  - default heap for region servers (and master) is changed from 1GB to
> >    the jdk's default. On most platforms, it will default to 1/4 of
> physical
> >    memory
> >  - mapred package and classes under there has been un-deprecated.
> >  - two new modules (jar files): hbase-annotations and hbase-rest
> >  - Slab cache has been removed (use bucket cache instead)
> >  - Some more client API cleanup.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for everybody who have contributed to this release. Full list of
> the
> > issues
> > can be found here:
> >
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12328551
> >
> >
> > Compatibility
> > -------------
> > 0.99.x series of releases are preview of upcoming 1.0 release. HBase-1.0
> is
> > planned to be wire compatible with 0.98.x and 0.96.x releases. Clients
> and
> > servers running in different versions as long as new features are not
> used
> > should be possible.
> > A rolling upgrade from 0.98.x clusters to 0.99.1 is supported as well.
> > 0.99.1
> > introduces a new file format (hfile v3) that is enabled by default that
> > 0.96.x code cannot read. Rolling upgrade from 0.96 directly to 0.99 is
> not
> > tested.
> >
> > Direct migration from 0.94.x is also supported but it IS NOT tested.
> Before
> > HBase-1.0 we expect to complete the test.
> >
> > Binary compatibility at the Java API layer with earlier versions (0.98.x,
> > 0.96.x and 0.94.x) is not supported. You may have to recompile your
> client
> > code and any server side code (coprocessors, filters etc) referring to
> > hbase jars.
> >
> > 0.99.x release introduces new APIs, and deprecates some of commonly-used
> > client side APIs (HTableInterface, etc). However, client side code is
> > expected
> > to be source compatible with earlier versions. However we advise to
> update
> > your application to use the new style of APIs, since deprecated APIs
> might
> > be removed in future releases (2.x).
> >
> >
> > Supported Hadoop versions
> > -------------------------
> > 0.99.x releases drop support for Hadoop-1.x releases. Only Hadoop-2.x
> > releases are supported. Hadoop-2.4.x and Hadoop-2.5.x releases are the
> > most tested hadoop releases and we recommend running with those versions.
> > Earlier Hadoop-2 based releases (hadoop-2.2.x and 2.3.x) are not tested
> to
> > the full
> > extend. More information can be found here:
> > https://hbase.apache.org/book/configuration.html#hadoop
> >
> >
> > Supported Java versions
> > -------------------------
> > 0.99.x releases drop support for JDK6. Only JDK7 is supported. JDK8
> support
> > is experimental. More information can be found here:
> > https://hbase.apache.org/book/configuration.html#java
> >
> >
> > Voting
> > ------
> > Please try to test and vote on this release by 10/14/2014 11:59PM PDT.
> > This is a developer (beta) release, so we have a shorter vote time.
> > [] +1 Release the artifacts as 0.99.1
> > [] -1 DO NOT release the artifacts as 0.99.1, because...
> >
> > Thanks for helping to get a stable release out!
> >
> > References
> > ----------
> > [1]
> >
> >
> https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-dev/201409.mbox/%3ccamuu0w9y_+afw6ww0ha_p8kbew35b3ncshbuqacfndzs8tc...@mail.gmail.com%3E
> >
> > Enis
> >
>

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