The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of HBase 3.0.0-alpha-2.
Apache HBase™ is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database. Apache HBase gives you low latency random access to billions of rows with millions of columns atop non-specialized hardware. To learn more about HBase, see https://hbase.apache.org/. HBase 3.0.0-alpha-2 is the second alpha release in the HBase 3.x line, which is the second release of our next major release line. It includes roughly 3200+ resolved issues since 2.0.0. 3.0.0-alpha-2 contains a critical security fix for addressing the log4j2 CVE-2021-44228. 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. Notable new features include: Synchronous Replication OpenTelemetry Tracing Distributed MOB Compaction Backup and Restore For other important changes: We do not support hadoop 2.x any more Move RSGroup balancer to core Reimplement sync client on async client CPEPs on shaded proto Move the logging framework from log4j to log4j2 The full list of issues and release notes can be found here: CHANGELOG: https://downloads.apache.org/hbase/3.0.0-alpha-2/CHANGES.md RELEASENOTES: https://downloads.apache.org/hbase/3.0.0-alpha-2/RELEASENOTES.md or via our issue tracker: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/HBASE/versions/12350250 https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/HBASE/versions/12332342 To download please follow the links and instructions on our website: https://hbase.apache.org/downloads.html Questions, comments, and problems are always welcome at: d...@hbase.apache.org user@hbase.apache.org user...@hbase.apache.org Thanks to all who contributed and made this release possible. Cheers, The HBase Dev Team
