Please vote on this Apache hbase release candidate, hbase-3.0.0-alpha-2RC2 The VOTE will remain open for at least 72 hours.
[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache hbase 3.0.0-alpha-2 [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... The tag to be voted on is 3.0.0-alpha-2RC2: https://github.com/apache/hbase/tree/3.0.0-alpha-2RC2 This tag currently points to git reference 314e924e960d0d5c0c5e8ec436c75aaa6190b4c1 The release files, including signatures, digests, as well as CHANGES.md and RELEASENOTES.md included in this RC can be found at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hbase/3.0.0-alpha-2RC2/ Maven artifacts are available in a staging repository at: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1478/ Artifacts were signed with the 9AD2AE49 key which can be found in: https://downloads.apache.org/hbase/KEYS 3.0.0-alpha-2 is the second alpha release for our 3.0.0 major release line. HBase 3.0.0 includes the following big feature/changes: Synchronous Replication OpenTelemetry Tracing Distributed MOB Compaction Backup and Restore Move RSGroup balancer to core Reimplement sync client on async client CPEPs on shaded proto Move the logging framework from log4j to log4j2 3.0.0-alpha-2 contains several critical security fixes for addressing the log4j2 CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2021-45105. All users who already use 3.0.0-alpha-1 should upgrade to 3.0.0-alpha-2 ASAP. Notice that this is not a production ready release. It is used to let our users try and test the new major release, to get feedback before the final GA release is out. So please do NOT use it in production. Just try it and report back everything you find unusual. And this time we will not include CHANGES.md and RELEASENOTE.md in our source code, you can find it on the download site. For getting these two files for old releases, please go to To learn more about Apache hbase, please see http://hbase.apache.org/ Thanks, Your HBase Release Manager
