[ANNOUNCE] Apache HBase 0.98.22 is now available for download

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

Apache HBase 0.98.22 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] or at the bottom of 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. https://s.apache.org/DldG

HBASE-15635 Mean age of Blocks in cache (seconds) on webUI should be
greater than zero
HBASE-16299 Update REST API scanner with ability to do reverse scan
HBASE-16315 RegionSizeCalculator prints region names as binary without
escapes
HBASE-16318 fail build if license isn't in whitelist
HBASE-16340 ensure no Xerces jars included
HBASE-16360 TableMapReduceUtil addHBaseDependencyJars has the wrong class
name for PrefixTreeCodec
HBASE-16375 Mapreduce mini cluster using HBaseTestingUtility not setting
correct resourcemanager and jobhistory webapp address of
MapReduceTestingShim
HBASE-16377 ServerName check is ineffective in region_mover.rb
HBASE-16379 [replication] Minor improvement to
replication/copy_tables_desc.rb
HBASE-16385 Have hbase-rest pull hbase.rest.port from Constants.java
HBASE-16399 Provide an API to get list of failed regions and servername in
Canary
HBASE-16400 TestHBaseFsck fails on HBase-0.98-on-Hadoop-1.1 build
HBASE-16402 RegionServerCoprocessorHost should be initialized before
RpcServer starts
HBASE-16448 Custom metrics for custom replication endpoints
HBASE-16464 archive folder grows bigger and bigger due to corrupt snapshot
under tmp dir
HBASE-16467 Move AbstractHBaseTool to hbase-common
HBASE-16471 Region Server metrics context will be wrong when machine
hostname contain "master" word
HBASE-16495 When accessed via Thrift, all column families have timeToLive
equal to -1
HBASE-16502 Reduce garbage in BufferedDataBlockEncoder
HBASE-16512 when locate meta region, we should respect the param "useCache"
passed in on 0.98
HBASE-16518 Remove old .arcconfig file
HBASE-16527 IOExceptions from DFS client still can cause CatalogJanitor to
delete referenced files
HBASE-16535 Use regex to exclude generated classes for findbugs
HBASE-16538 Version mismatch in HBaseConfiguration.checkDefaultsVersion
HBASE-16552 MiniHBaseCluster#getServerWith() does not ignore stopped RSs

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Best regards,

   - Andy

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