Hi folks! I'm happy to announce that the third release candidate of HBase 1.2.2 is available for download at:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hbase/hbase-1.2.2RC2/ As of this vote, the relevant md5 hashes are: hbase-1.2.2-bin.tar.gz: B3 AA B7 7A 54 BF B0 AA 22 6E AC 48 52 14 A8 40 hbase-1.2.2-src.tar.gz: 7E D6 E0 07 07 D7 9C 43 88 4E EB 9F 80 47 AC 01 Maven artifacts are also available in the staging repository: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1142/ 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 3f671c1ead70d249ea4598f1bbcc5151322b3a13 which signed tag 1.2.2RC2 currently points to: https://s.apache.org/hbase-1.2.2RC2-tag HBase 1.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the HBase 1.2.z line, continuing on the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Hadoop and NoSQL communities. This release includes 74 resolved issues since the 1.2.1 release. Notable fixes include: * [HBASE-15811] - Batch Get after batch Put does not fetch all Cells * [HBASE-15698] - Increment TimeRange not serialized to server * [HBASE-15234] - ReplicationLogCleaner can abort due to transient ZK issues * [HBASE-15645] - hbase.rpc.timeout is not used in operations of HTable * [HBASE-15622] - Superusers does not consider the keytab credentials * [HBASE-15856] - Cached Connection instances can wind up with addresses never resolved * [HBASE-15873] - ACL for snapshot restore / clone is not enforced * [HBASE-16093] - Splits failed before creating daughter regions leave meta inconsistent The full list of issues can be found in the CHANGES.txt file included in the release and online at: https://s.apache.org/hbase-1.2.2-jira-releasenotes Please take some time to verify the release[1], try out the release candidate, and vote on releasing it: [ ] +1 Release this package as HBase 1.2.2 [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... Vote will be subject to Majority Approval[2] and will close at 5:00PM UTC on Tuesday, July 12th, 2016[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: https://s.apache.org/hbase-1.2.2RC2-vote-close
