The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of HBase 1.1.8! Download it from an Apache mirror near you, http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/, or wire up through the maven repo.
HBase 1.1.8 is the eighth 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 30 bug fixes since the 1.1.7 release. Notable correctness fixes include: HBASE-16886 hbase-client: scanner with reversed=true and small=true gets no result HBASE-16931 Setting cell's seqId to zero in compaction flow might cause RS down HBASE-16960 RegionServer hang when aborting HBASE-17023 Region left unassigned due to AM and SSH each thinking others would do the assignment work HBASE-17044 Fix merge failed before creating merged region leaves meta inconsistent HBASE-17206 FSHLog may roll a new writer successfully with unflushed entries The full list of fixes included in this release is available at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12338341 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