[ANNOUNCE] Apache HBase 1.1.12 is now available for download

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

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

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 1.1.12 is the twelfth 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 nearly 10 bug fixes since the
1.1.11 release. Notable correctness fixes include:

HBASE-9393 - Hbase does not closing a closed socket resulting in many
CLOSE_WAIT
HBASE-15691 - Port HBASE-10205 (ConcurrentModificationException in
BucketAllocator) to branch-1
HBASE-18390 - Sleep too long when finding region location failed
HBASE-18330 - NPE in ReplicationZKLockCleanerChore

The full list of fixes included in this release is available at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12340864
and and in the CHANGES.txt file included in the distribution.

Download through an ASF mirror near you:

    https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/1.1.12

The relevant checksums files are available at:

    https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.1.12/hbase-1.1.12-src.tar.gz.mds
    https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.1.12/hbase-1.1.12-bin.tar.gz.mds

Project member signature keys can be found at

    https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/KEYS

PGP signatures are available at:

    https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.1.12/hbase-1.1.12-src.tar.gz.asc
    https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/1.1.12/hbase-1.1.12-bin.tar.gz.asc

For instructions on verifying ASF release downloads, please see

    https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi#verify

Question, comments, and problems are always welcome at: dev@hbase.apache.org
.

Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible!

Cheers,
The HBase Dev Team