The HBase team is happy to announce the availability of HBase 1.1.0! Download it from an Apache mirror near you, http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/, or wire up through the maven repo.
HBase 1.1.0 is the first minor release in the HBase 1.x line, continuing on the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Hadoop and NoSQL communities. This release includes over 400 features, improvements, and bug fixes -- roughly 200 resolved issues above the 1.0.x series to date. Notable features include: - Async RPC client (HBASE-12684) - Simple RPC throttling (HBASE-11598) - Improved compaction controls (HBASE-8329, HBASE-12859) - Scan improvements (HBASE-11544, HBASE-13090) - Procedure V2 for improved reliability of cluster operations (HBASE-12439) - New extension interfaces for coprocessor users, better supporting projects like Phoenix (HBASE-12972, HBASE-12975) - Per-column family flush (HBASE-10201) - WAL on SSD (HBASE-12848) - BlockCache in Memcached (HBASE-13170) - Tons of region replica enhancements around META, WAL, and bulk loading (HBASE-11574, HBASE-11568, HBASE-11571, HBASE-11567) The full list of issues can be found at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12329043 Some of these new features were recently written about in detail on the project blog: - https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/scan_improvements_in_hbase_1 - https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/the_hbase_request_throttling_feature Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible!
