[ANNOUNCE] HBase 0.98.12 is now available for download

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

Apache HBase 0.98.12 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 following this announcement.

Thanks to all who contributed to this release.

Best,
The HBase Dev Team

1. http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/
2. http://s.apache.org/zH


HBASE-6919 Remove unnecessary throws IOException from Bytes.readVLong
HBASE-10728 get_counter value is never used.
HBASE-12891 Parallel execution for Hbck checkRegionConsistency
HBASE-12908 Typos in MemStoreFlusher javadocs
HBASE-12931 The existing KeyValues in memstore are not removed completely
after inserting cell into memStore
HBASE-12969 Parameter Validation is not there for shell script,
local-master-backup.sh and local-regionservers.sh
HBASE-13006 Document visibility label support for groups
HBASE-13091 Split ZK Quorum on Master WebUI
HBASE-13100 Shell command to retrieve table splits
HBASE-13109 Make better SEEK vs SKIP decisions during scanning
HBASE-13120 Allow disabling hadoop classpath and native library lookup
HBASE-13136 TestSplitLogManager.testGetPreviousRecoveryMode is flakey
HBASE-13139 Clean up missing JAVA_HOME message in bin/hbase-config.sh
HBASE-13162 Add capability for cleaning hbase acls to hbase cleanup script.
HBASE-13168 Backport HBASE-12590 "A solution for data skew in
HBase-Mapreduce Job"
HBASE-13172 TestDistributedLogSplitting.testThreeRSAbort fails several
times on branch-1
HBASE-13183 Make ZK tickTime configurable in standalone HBase
HBASE-13206 Fix TableLock tableName log format
HBASE-13207 Backport to 0.98 "[PERF] Reuse the IPC buffers..."
HBASE-13223 Add testMoveMeta to IntegrationTestMTTR
HBASE-13224 Minor formatting issue when logging a namespace scope in
AuthResult#toContextString
HBASE-13227 LoadIncrementalHFile should skip non-files inside a possible
family-dir
HBASE-13229 Specify bash for local-regionservers.sh and
local-master-backup.sh
HBASE-13236 Clean up m2e-related warnings/errors from poms
HBASE-13239 HBase grant at specific column level does not work for Groups
HBASE-13241 Add tests for group level grants
HBASE-13253 LoadIncrementalHFiles unify hfiles discovery
HBASE-13262 ResultScanner doesn't return all rows in Scan
HBASE-13269 Limit result array preallocation to avoid OOME with large scan
caching values
HBASE-13273 Make Result.EMPTY_RESULT read-only; currently it can be modified
HBASE-13275 Setting hbase.security.authorization to false does not disable
authorization
HBASE-13276 Fix incorrect condition for minimum block locality in 0.98
HBASE-13282 Fix the minor issues of running Canary on kerberized environment
HBASE-13283 Document the steps for rolling back the security on hbase.
HBASE-13285 Fix flaky getRegions() in TestAccessController.setUp()
HBASE-13289 typo in splitSuccessCount  metric
HBASE-13292 Undo parent from 0.98 and 1.0: setting
hbase.client.scanner.max.result.size is considered harmful
HBASE-13294 Fix the critical ancient loopholes in security testing
infrastructure.
HBASE-13296 Fix the deletion of acl notify nodes for namespace.
HBASE-13303 Fix size calculation of results on the region server
HBASE-13305 Get(Get get) is not copying the row key
HBASE-13309 Some tests do not reset EnvironmentEdgeManager
HBASE-13317 Region server reportForDuty stuck looping if there is a master
change
HBASE-13326 Disabled table can't be enabled after HBase is restarted
HBASE-13331 Exceptions from DFS client can cause CatalogJanitor to delete
referenced files
HBASE-13335 Update ClientSmallScanner and ClientSmallReversedScanner
HBASE-13342 Fix incorrect interface annotations
HBASE-13345 Fix LocalHBaseCluster so that different region server impl can
be used for different slaves
HBASE-13362 Set max result size from client only (like scanner caching).
HBASE-13370 PE tool could give option for using Explicit Column Tracker
which leads to seeks
HBASE-13374 Small scanners (with particular configurations) do not return
all rows
HBASE-13380 Cherry pick the HBASE-12808 compatibility checker tool back to
0.98+
HBASE-13381 Expand TestSizeFailures to include small scans
HBASE-13386 Backport HBASE-12601 to all active branches other than master
HBASE-13388 Handling NullPointer in ZKProcedureMemberRpcs while getting
ZNode data
HBASE-13397 Purge duplicate rpc request thread local
HBASE-13409 Add categories to uncategorized tests
HBASE-13422 remove use of StandardCharsets in 0.98
HBASE-13433 Backward compatibility in 1.0.z for shell broken for get_counter
HBASE-13445 RpcServer.Call change in backport of HBASE-13397 not
sufficiently backwards compatible


-- 
Best regards,

   - Andy

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein
(via Tom White)