[ANNOUNCE] HBase 0.98.16.1 is now available for download

[Andrew Purtell <ap...@apache.org>]

Apache HBase 0.98.16.1 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],
with the exception of one change removed for this patch release: a revert
of HBASE-14689 (Addendum and unit test for HBASE-13471), a change that was
problematic when committed to later code lines. You can also find the list
of changes in this release below following 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. http://s.apache.org/Xbv

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HBASE-12911 Client-side metrics
HBASE-12986 Compaction pressure based client pushback
HBASE-13318 RpcServer.getListenerAddress should handle when the accept
channel is closed
HBASE-13330 Region left unassigned due to AM & SSH each thinking the
assignment would be done by the other
HBASE-14283 Reverse scan doesn’t work with HFile inline index/bloom blocks
HBASE-14347 Add a switch to DynamicClassLoader to disable it
HBASE-14366 NPE in case visibility expression is not present in labels
table during importtsv run
HBASE-14436 HTableDescriptor#addCoprocessor will always make
RegionCoprocessorHost create new Configuration
HBASE-14491 ReplicationSource#countDistinctRowKeys code logic is not correct
HBASE-14493 Upgrade the jamon-runtime dependency
HBASE-14497 Reverse Scan threw StackOverflow caused by readPt checking
HBASE-14501 NPE in replication with TDE
HBASE-14519 Purge TestFavoredNodeAssignmentHelper, a test for an abandoned
feature that can hang
HBASE-14535 Integration test for rpc connection concurrency / deadlock
testing
HBASE-14538 Remove TestVisibilityLabelsWithDistributedLogReplay, a test for
an unsupported feature
HBASE-14545 TestMasterFailover often times out
HBASE-14553 [0.98] Per column family DFS Replication doesn't work against
hadoop-1
HBASE-14571 Purge TestProcessBasedCluster; it does nothing and then fails
HBASE-14577 HBase shell help for scan and returning a column family has a
typo
HBASE-14578 URISyntaxException during snapshot restore for table with user
defined namespace
HBASE-14580 Make the HBaseMiniCluster compliant with Kerberos
HBASE-14581 Znode cleanup throws auth exception in secure mode
HBASE-14586 Use a maven profile to run Jacoco analysis
HBASE-14588 Stop accessing test resources from within src folder
HBASE-14591 Region with reference hfile may split after a forced split in
IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy
HBASE-14594 Use new DNS API introduced in HADOOP-12437
HBASE-14598 ByteBufferOutputStream grows its HeapByteBuffer beyond JVM
limitations
HBASE-14604 Improve MoveCostFunction in StochasticLoadBalancer
HBASE-14605 Split fails due to 'No valid credentials' error when
SecureBulkLoadEndpoint#start tries to access hdfs
HBASE-14611 Backport HBASE-14473 (Compute region locality in parallel) to
0.98
HBASE-14621 ReplicationLogCleaner gets stuck when a regionserver crashes
HBASE-14622 Purge TestZkLess* tests from branch-1
HBASE-14624 BucketCache.freeBlock is too expensive
HBASE-14628 [0.98] Save object creation for scanning with block encodings
HBASE-14631 Region merge request should be audited with request user
through proper scope of doAs() calls to region observer notifications
HBASE-14655 Narrow the scope of doAs() calls to region observer
notifications for compaction
HBASE-14658 Allow loading a MonkeyFactory by class name
HBASE-14663 HStore::close does not honor config hbase.rs.evictblocksonclose
HBASE-14680 Two configs for snapshot timeout and better defaults
HBASE-14693 Add client-side metrics for received pushback signals
HBASE-14700 Support a "permissive" mode for secure clusters to allow
"simple" auth clients
HBASE-14705 Javadoc for KeyValue constructor is not correct.
HBASE-14709 Parent change breaks graceful_stop.sh on a cluster
HBASE-14715 Add javadocs to DelegatingRetryingCallable
HBASE-14733 Minor typo in alter_namespace.rb
HBASE-14768 bin/graceful_stop.sh logs nothing as a balancer state to be
stored