[ANNOUNCE] Apache HBase 1.4.6 is now available for download

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

The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Apache
HBase 1.4.6!

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/.

Download through an ASF mirror:

    https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/1.4.6

HBase 1.4.6 is the latest release of the HBase 1.4 line, continuing on the
theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Apache Big Data
ecosystem and beyond.

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

Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible!

A list of the 34 issues resolved in this release can be found at
https://s.apache.org/gLr0 .

Best,
The HBase Dev Team


HBASE-17885 Backport HBASE-15871 to branch-1
HBASE-19377 Compatibility checker complaining about hash collisions
HBASE-19722 Meta query statistics metrics source
HBASE-20230 Incorrrect log message in RSRpcService
HBASE-20401 Make `MAX_WAIT` and `waitIfNotFinished` in CleanerContext
configurable
HBASE-20555 Backport HBASE-18083 and related changes in branch-1
HBASE-20556 Backport HBASE-16490 to branch-1
HBASE-20557 Backport HBASE-17215 to branch-1
HBASE-20558 Backport HBASE-17854 to branch-1
HBASE-20559 Backport HBASE-18083 to branch-1
HBASE-20565 ColumnRangeFilter combined with ColumnPaginationFilter can
produce incorrect result since 1.4
HBASE-20651 Master, prevents hbck or shell command to reassign the split
parent region
HBASE-20689 Docker fails to install rubocop for precommit
HBASE-20697 Can't cache All region locations of the specify table by
calling table.getRegionLocator().getAllRegionLocations()
HBASE-20701 too much logging when balancer runs from BaseLoadBalancer
HBASE-20723 Custom hbase.wal.dir results in data loss because we write
recovered edits into a different place than where the recovering region
server looks for them
HBASE-20732 Shutdown scan pool when master is stopped.
HBASE-20733 QABot should run checkstyle tests if the checkstyle configs
change
HBASE-20769 getSplits() has a out of bounds problem in
TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl
HBASE-20770 WAL cleaner logs way too much; gets clogged when lots of work
to do
HBASE-20771 PUT operation fail with "No server address listed in hbase:meta
for region xxxxx"
HBASE-20785 NPE getting metrics in PE testing scans
HBASE-20789 TestBucketCache#testCacheBlockNextBlockMetadataMissing is flaky
HBASE-20806 Split style journal for flushes and compactions
HBASE-20808 Wrong shutdown order between Chores and ChoreService
HBASE-20826 Truncate responseInfo attributes on RpcServer WARN messages
HBASE-20840 Backport HBASE-20791
'RSGroupBasedLoadBalancer#setClusterMetrics should pass ClusterMetrics to
its internalBalancer' to branch-1
HBASE-20855 PeerConfigTracker only supporting one listener will cause
problem when there is a recovered replication queue
HBASE-20884 Replace usage of our Base64 implementation with java.util.Base64
HBASE-20889 PE scan is failing with NullPointerException
HBASE-20905 branch-1 docker build fails
HBASE-20908 Infinite loop on regionserver if region replica are reduced
HBASE-20917 MetaTableMetrics#stop references uninitialized requestsMap for
non-meta region
HBASE-20931 [branch-1] Add -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2 to Maven command line
in make_rc.sh