Hi Folks! I'm pleased to announce the second release candidate for HBase 1.2.0.
Artifacts are available here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hbase/hbase-1.2.0RC1/ As of this vote, the relevant md5 hashes are: a338ca93cd4c495f03bcff2d457222ef hbase-1.2.0-bin.tar.gz 955cf9908ae7fef12e3b1447ce8dd035 hbase-1.2.0-src.tar.gz Maven artifacts are available in this staging repository: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1127/ All artifacts are signed with my code signing key 0D80DB7C, available in the project KEYS file: http://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/KEYS these artifacts correspond to commit hash 46fc1d876bd604f2f71f8692d79978055a095a7a which signed tag 1.2.0RC1 currently point to https://git1-us-west.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hbase.git;a=tag;h=5696635f2f87da6777878b3755a17e0fa639a5c4 HBase 1.2.0 is the second minor release in the HBase 1.x line, continuing on the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Hadoop and NoSQL communities. This release includes roughly 250 resolved issues not covered by previous 1.x releases. Notable new features include: - JDK8 is now supported - Hadoop 2.6.1+ and Hadoop 2.7.1+ are now supported - per column-family time ranges for scan (HBASE-14355) - daemons respond to SIGHUP to reload configs (HBASE-14529) - region location methods added to thrift2 proxy (HBASE-13698) - table-level sync that sends deltas (HBASE-13639) - client side metrics via JMX (HBASE-12911) The full list of issues can be found at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12332062 To see the changes since the prior release candidate, you can use the following git command on a up-to-date checkout of the hbase repository: git log 1.2.0RC0..1.2.0RC1 Please take a few minutes to verify the release[1] and vote on releasing it: [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache HBase 1.2.0 [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... Vote will be subject to Majority Approval[2] and will close at 4:00PM UTC on Friday, Feb 5th, 2015[3]. [1]: http://www.apache.org/info/verification.html [2]: https://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#MajorityApproval [3]: to find this in your local timezone see: http://s.apache.org/hbase-1.2.0-rc1-close
