See footnote 2 of the announcement email. Looks like we missed updating the bundled changes file when making the tarball. Apologies, that will be rectified next time.
> On Feb 17, 2014, at 2:15 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > There is a CHANGES.txt file into the archive, but it doesn't seems to be > accurate. You will be able to retrieve the list of fixed JIRAs by filtering > them from the jira web site using the version. > > JM > > > 2014-02-17 3:06 GMT-05:00 YouPeng Yang <[email protected]>: > >> Hi >> Glad to be informed . >> Are there any CHANGES docs about the HBase-0.98 ? >> >> Regards >> >> >> 2014-02-17 9:48 GMT+08:00 Andrew Purtell <[email protected]>: >> >>> hbase-0.98.0 is now available for download [0] from the Apache mirrors >> and >>> its artifacts are available in the Apache Maven repository. >>> >>> Apache HBase is a scalable, distributed data store that runs atop Apache >>> Hadoop. >>> >>> HBase 0.98.0 is the next major release after HBase 0.96. >>> >>> This release includes several new security features like cell visibility >>> labels, cell ACLs, and transparent server side encryption. Please see the >>> Security section of the HBase Online Manual [1] for more information. >> There >>> are significant performance improvements, such as a change to the write >>> ahead log threading model that provides higher transaction throughput >> under >>> high load, reverse scanners, MapReduce over snapshot files, and striped >>> compaction. The complete list of changes in this release can be found in >>> the release notes. [2] >>> >>> HBase 0.98 is expected to be wire compatible with HBase 0.96, so clients >>> and servers mixed between these versions will seamlessly interoperate, >>> provided new features available in 0.98 are not enabled. However, the >> HBase >>> 0.98.0 release is not intended to be binary compatible at the Java API >>> level with any HBase 0.96 release or earlier. You may need to recompile >>> applications which reference the HBase JARs. Users of HBase 0.94 will >> have >>> to perform an offline data migration procedure during upgrade. Consult >> the >>> HBase Online Manual [1] for more information. It is not necessary to >>> migrate data from 0.94 to 0.98 through 0.96, you can upgrade from 0.94 to >>> 0.98 directly if desired following the same procedure for upgrading from >>> 0.94 to 0.96. >>> >>> Thanks to all who contributed to this release. >>> >>> At your service, >>> The HBase dev team >>> >>> 0. http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/ >>> 1. https://hbase.apache.org/book/book.html >>> 2. http://goo.gl/y25W2h >>
