[ANNOUNCE] Apache HBase 1.1.4 is now available for download

[Nick Dimiduk <nd...@apache.org>]

The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of HBase
1.1.4! Download it from an Apache mirror near you,
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/, or wire up through the maven
repo.

HBase 1.1.4 is the fourth patch release in the HBase 1.1 line, continuing
on the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Hadoop and
NoSQL communities. This release includes over 40 bug fixes since the 1.1.3
release. Notable correctness fixes include:

HBASE-15100 Master WALProcs still never clean up
HBASE-15198 RPC client not using Codec and CellBlock for puts by default
HBASE-15214 Valid mutate Ops fail with RPC Codec in use and region moves
across
HBASE-15218 On RS crash and replay of WAL, loosing all Tags in Cells
HBASE-15221 HTableMultiplexer improvements (stale region locations and
resource leaks)
HBASE-15252 Data loss when replaying wal if HDFS timeout
HBASE-15322 Operations using Unsafe path broken for platforms not having
sun.misc.Unsafe
HBASE-15378 Scanner cannot handle heartbeat message with no results
HBASE-15430 Failed taking snapshot - Manifest proto-message too large

The full list of fixes included in this release is available at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12333671
and in the CHANGES.txt file included in the distribution.

Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible!

Cheers,
The HBase Dev Team