[ANNOUNCE] Apache HBase 2.2.4 is now available for download

[Guanghao Zhang <zg...@gmail.com>]

The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of HBase
2.2.4.

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/.

To download 2.2.4, visit our download page:
http://hbase.apache.org/downloads.html

HBase 2.2.4 is the latest release of the HBase 2.2 line, continuing on the
theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Apache Big Data
ecosystem and beyond. 2.2.4 includes 42 bug fixes and improvement  done
since the 2.2.3.

The list of 42 changes made since 2.2.4 can be found here:
https://downloads.apache.org/hbase/2.2.4/CHANGES.md

For instructions on verifying ASF release downloads, please see
https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi#verify

Project member signature keys can be found at
https://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/KEYS

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

Thanks to all who contributed and made this release possible.

Cheers,
The HBase Dev Team