[ANNOUNCE] HBase 0.94.23 is available for download

[lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org>]

The HBase Team is pleased to announce the immediate release of HBase 0.94.23.
Download it from your favorite Apache mirror [1].
This release has also been pushed to Apache's maven repository.

All previous 0.92.x and 0.94.x releases can be upgraded to 0.94.23 via a rolling upgrade without downtime, intermediary versions can be skipped.

HBase 0.94.23 is a bug fix release with 12 fixes:
    [HBASE-9746] - RegionServer can't start when replication tries to replicate to an unknown host
    [HBASE-10834] - Better error messaging on issuing grant commands in non-authz mode
    [HBASE-11232] - Add MultiRowMutation tests.
    [HBASE-11536] - Puts of region location to Meta may be out of order which causes inconsistent of region location
    [HBASE-11641] - TestDistributedLogSplitting.testMasterStartsUpWithLogSplittingWork fails frequently
    [HBASE-11652] - Port HBASE-3270 and HBASE-11650 to 0.94 - create cluster id and version file in a tmp location and move it into place
    [HBASE-11767] - [0.94] Unnecessary garbage produced by schema metrics during scanning
    [HBASE-11667] - Comment ClientScanner logic for NSREs.
    [HBASE-11754] - [Shell] Record table property SPLITS_FILE in descriptor
    [HBASE-11690] - Backport HBASE-5934 (Add the ability for Performance Evaluation to set the table compression) to 0.94
    [HBASE-11691] - Backport HBASE-7156 (Add Data Block Encoding and -D opts to Performance Evaluation) to 0.94
    [HBASE-11693] - Backport HBASE-11026 (Provide option to filter out all rows in PerformanceEvaluation tool) to 0.94

See also the full release notes [2].
Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release!

Yours,
The HBase Team

1. http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/
2. https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12327363