Apache HBase 0.98.19 is now available for download. Get it from an Apache mirror [1] or Maven repository. The list of changes in this release can be found in the release notes [2] or at the bottom of this announcement.
Thanks to all who contributed to this release. Best, The HBase Dev Team 1. http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/ 2. https://s.apache.org/z92R HBASE-11830 TestReplicationThrottler.testThrottling failed on virtual boxes HBASE-12148 Remove TimeRangeTracker as point of contention when many threads writing a Store HBASE-12511 namespace permissions - add support from table creation privilege in a namespace 'C' HBASE-12663 unify getTableDescriptors() and listTableDescriptorsByNamespace() HBASE-12674 Add permission check to getNamespaceDescriptor() HBASE-13700 Allow Thrift2 HSHA server to have configurable threads HBASE-14809 Grant / revoke Namespace admin permission to group HBASE-14870 Backport namespace permissions to 98 branch HBASE-14983 Create metrics for per block type hit/miss ratios HBASE-15191 CopyTable and VerifyReplication - Option to specify batch size, versions HBASE-15212 RRCServer should enforce max request size HBASE-15234 ReplicationLogCleaner can abort due to transient ZK issues HBASE-15368 Add pluggable window support HBASE-15386 PREFETCH_BLOCKS_ON_OPEN in HColumnDescriptor is ignored HBASE-15389 Write out multiple files when compaction HBASE-15400 Use DateTieredCompactor for Date Tiered Compaction HBASE-15405 Synchronize final results logging single thread in PE, fix wrong defaults in help message HBASE-15412 Add average region size metric HBASE-15460 Fix infer issues in hbase-common HBASE-15475 Allow TimestampsFilter to provide a seek hint HBASE-15479 No more garbage or beware of autoboxing HBASE-15527 Refactor Compactor related classes HBASE-15548 SyncTable: sourceHashDir is supposed to be optional but won't work without HBASE-15569 Make Bytes.toStringBinary faster HBASE-15582 SnapshotManifestV1 too verbose when there are no regions HBASE-15587 FSTableDescriptors.getDescriptor() logs stack trace erronously HBASE-15614 Report metrics from JvmPauseMonitor HBASE-15621 Suppress Hbase SnapshotHFile cleaner error messages when a snaphot is going on HBASE-15622 Superusers does not consider the keytab credentials HBASE-15627 Miss space and closing quote in AccessController#checkSystemOrSuperUser HBASE-15629 Backport HBASE-14703 to 0.98+ HBASE-15637 TSHA Thrift-2 server should allow limiting call queue size HBASE-15640 L1 cache doesn't give fair warning that it is showing partial stats only when it hits limit HBASE-15647 Backport HBASE-15507 to 0.98 HBASE-15650 Remove TimeRangeTracker as point of contention when many threads reading a StoreFile HBASE-15661 Hook up JvmPauseMonitor metrics in Master HBASE-15662 Hook up JvmPauseMonitor to REST server HBASE-15663 Hook up JvmPauseMonitor to ThriftServer HBASE-15664 Use Long.MAX_VALUE instead of HConstants.FOREVER in CompactionPolicy HBASE-15665 Support using different StoreFileComparators for different CompactionPolicies HBASE-15672 hadoop.hbase.security.visibility.TestVisibilityLabelsWithDeletes fails HBASE-15673 [PE tool] Fix latency metrics for multiGet HBASE-15679 Assertion on wrong variable in TestReplicationThrottler#testThrottling
