The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of HBase 1.1.6! Download it from an Apache mirror near you, http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/, or wire up through the maven repo.
HBase 1.1.6 is the sixth patch release in the HBase 1.1 line, continuing on the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Hadoop and NoSQL communities. This much anticipated release includes over 70 bug fixes since the 1.1.5 release. Notable correctness fixes include: HBASE-15698 Increment TimeRange not serialized to server HBASE-15856 Cached Connection instances can wind up with addresses never resolved HBASE-15878 Deprecate doBulkLoad(Path hfofDir, final HTable table) in branch-1 (even though its 'late') HBASE-16012 Major compaction can't work due to obsolete scanner read point in RegionServer HBASE-16056 Procedure v2 - fix master crash for FileNotFound HBASE-16093 Splits failed before creating daughter regions leave meta inconsistent HBASE-16132 Scan does not return all the result when regionserver is busy HBASE-16237 Blocks for hbase:meta table are not cached in L1 cache HBASE-16288 HFile intermediate block level indexes might recurse forever creating multi TB files HBASE-16420 Fix source incompatibility of Table interface HBASE-16429 FSHLog: deadlock if rollWriter called when ring buffer filled with appends HBASE-16464 archive folder grows bigger and bigger due to corrupt snapshot under tmp dir The full list of fixes included in this release is available at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12335679 and and in the CHANGES.txt file included in the distribution. Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible! Cheers, The HBase Dev Team