The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of HBase 1.1.9! Download it from an Apache mirror near you, http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/, or wire up through the maven repo.
HBase 1.1.9 is the ninth 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 release includes nearly 20 bug fixes since the 1.1.8 release. Notable correctness fixes include: HBASE-17238 Wrong in-memory hbase:meta location causing SSH failure HBASE-17275 Assign timeout may cause region to be unassigned forever HBASE-17265 Region left unassigned in master failover when region failed to open HBASE-17587 Do not Rethrow DoNotRetryIOException as UnknownScannerException The full list of fixes included in this release is available at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12338734 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
