[ANNOUNCE] HBase 0.94.13 is available for download

[lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org>]

The HBase Team is pleased to announce the immediate release of HBase 0.94.13.
Download it from your favorite Apache mirror [1]. This release has also been pushed to Apache's maven repository.

All previous 0.92.x and 0.94.x releases can upgraded to 0.94.13 via a rolling upgrade without downtime, intermediary versions can be skipped.

0.94.13 has 30 issues resolved against it:
    [HBASE-9711] - Improve HBASE-9428 - avoid copying bytes for RegexFilter unless necessary
    [HBASE-7600] - TestAdmin.testCreateBadTables is failing occasionally
    [HBASE-8521] - Cells cannot be overwritten with bulk loaded HFiles
    [HBASE-9430] - Memstore heapSize calculation - DEEP_OVERHEAD is incorrect
    [HBASE-9504] - Backport HBASE-1212 to 0.94
    [HBASE-9548] - Cleanup SnapshotTestingUtils
    [HBASE-9607] - Data loss after snapshot restore into cloned table
    [HBASE-9649] - HFilePrettyPrinter should not throw a NPE if FirstKey or LastKey is null.
    [HBASE-9651] - Backport HBASE-3890 'Scheduled tasks in distributed log splitting not in sync with ZK' to 0.94
    [HBASE-9727] - HBase Rest Server - DELETE scanner operation is a no-op
    [HBASE-9731] - updatesBlockedSeconds RegionServer metric should not be a histogram
    [HBASE-9732] - Static AtomicLong updated in StoreFileScanner every (re)seek
    [HBASE-9737] - Corrupt HFile cause resource leak leading to Region Server OOM
    [HBASE-9745] - Append HBASE_CLASSPATH to end of Java classpath and use another env var for prefix
    [HBASE-9747] - PrefixFilter with OR condition gives wrong results
    [HBASE-9751] - Excessive readpoints checks in StoreFileScanner
    [HBASE-9753] - Excessive readpoint checks in MemstoreScanner
    [HBASE-9783] - o.a.h.h.r.HRegion.mutateRow() with non-existent CF cause NPE
    [HBASE-9789] - Change logging for Coprocessor exec call to trace
    [HBASE-9807] - block encoder unnecessarily copies the key for each reseek
    [HBASE-9842] - Backport HBASE-9593 and HBASE-8667 to 0.94
    [HBASE-9847] - HConnectionImplementation does not connect to new active master
    [HBASE-9221] - Provide interface for getting a User in the client
    [HBASE-9488] - Improve performance for small scan
    [HBASE-9716] - LoadTestTool should provide default min and max settings to the data generator
    [HBASE-9749] - Custom threadpool for Coprocessor obtained HTables
    [HBASE-9819] - Backport HBASE-8372 'Provide mutability to CompoundConfiguration' to 0.94
    [HBASE-8553] - improve unit-test coverage of package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.hadoopbackport
    [HBASE-9851] - TestHBaseFsck.testQuarantineMissingHFile is flaky
    [HBASE-9852] - TestRpcMetrics.testCustomMetrics is flaky

See also the full release notes [2].
Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release!

Yours,
The HBase Team

1. http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/
2. https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12324885