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Author: buildbot
Date: Wed Jul  1 22:12:19 2015
New Revision: 956598

Log:
Staging update by buildbot for accumulo

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 improvements since Accumulo 1.5, see the <a href="http://accumulo.apache.org/release_notes/1.6.0.html">1.6.0</a>, <a href="http://accumulo.apache.org/release_notes/1.6.1.html">1.6.1</a>, and
 <a href="http://accumulo.apache.org/release_notes/1.6.2.html">1.6.2</a> release notes.</p>
 <h2 id="fixed-batchwriter-hold-time-error">Fixed BatchWriter hold time error</h2>
-<p>In previous releases a <code>BatchWriter</code> could fail with a
-<code>MutationsRejectedException</code> with server errors.  If inspection of the tserver
+<p>In previous releases, a <code>BatchWriter</code> could fail with a
+<code>MutationsRejectedException</code> with server errors. If inspection of the tserver
 logs showed <code>HoldTimeoutException</code> was the cause, the workaround was to
-increase the value of <code>general.rpc.timeout</code>.  Changing this setting is no
+increase the value of <code>general.rpc.timeout</code>. Changing this setting is no
 longer necessary as this bug was fixed by <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2388">ACCUMULO-2388</a>.</p>
 <h2 id="severe-bug-fixes">Severe bug fixes.</h2>
 <ul>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3597">ACCUMULO-3597</a> Fixed deadlock where a table flush and
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3597">ACCUMULO-3597</a> Fixed a deadlock where a table flush and
    metadata tablet load were waiting on each other.  This was a rare bug. If it
    occurred it could impact the availability of Accumulo as most Accumulo
    operations depend on metadata tablets.</li>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3709">ACCUMULO-3709</a> Fixed potential data loss bug where
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3709">ACCUMULO-3709</a> Fixed a potential data loss bug where
    AccumuloOutputFormat close did not rethrow exception.</li>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3745">ACCUMULO-3745</a> Fixed deadlock in SourceSwitchingIterator
-  that occured when using custom iterators that called deep copy.  This bug
-  would cause scans to hang indefinitely until the tserver was killed.</li>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3859">ACCUMULO-3859</a> Fixed race condition that could prevent table
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3745">ACCUMULO-3745</a> Fixed a deadlock in SourceSwitchingIterator
+   that occurred when using custom iterators that called <code>deepCopy</code>.  This bug
+   would cause scans to hang indefinitely until the offending tserver was killed.</li>
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3859">ACCUMULO-3859</a> Fixed a race condition that could prevent table
    constraints from ever loading for a Tablet. It is likely to only affect users
    when the constraint is first added to a table.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2 id="notable-bug-fixes">Notable bug fixes</h2>
 <ul>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3589">ACCUMULO-3589</a> du in shell does not check table existence</li>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3692">ACCUMULO-3692</a> Offline table disables balancing</li>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3718">ACCUMULO-3718</a> Fixed bug that prevented a Mutation from
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3589">ACCUMULO-3589</a> <code>du</code> in Shell does not check table existence.</li>
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3692">ACCUMULO-3692</a> Offline'ing a table disabled subsequent balancing.</li>
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3718">ACCUMULO-3718</a> Fixed a bug that prevented a Mutation from
    being created in Scala.</li>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3750">ACCUMULO-3750</a> Fixed issue where master would perpetually
-   fail when there was a bad instance.secret setting.</li>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3784">ACCUMULO-3784</a> Fixed bug in getauths shell command where it
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3750">ACCUMULO-3750</a> Fixed an issue where the Master would perpetually
+   fail when there was a bad <code>instance.secret</code> setting.</li>
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3784">ACCUMULO-3784</a> Fixed a bug in <code>getauths</code> Shell command where it
    treated visibilities that differed only in case as the same.</li>
 <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3796">ACCUMULO-3796</a> Added documentation about turning off zone
-   reclaim.  </li>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3880">ACCUMULO-3880</a> Malformed Configuration Causes tservers To Shutdown</li>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3890">ACCUMULO-3890</a> Fixed performance issue with
-   CredentialProvider.  This could degrade performance when ...</li>
+   reclaim.</li>
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3880">ACCUMULO-3880</a> Fixed an issue where malformed configuration caused
+   TabletServers to shutdown.</li>
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3890">ACCUMULO-3890</a> Fixed a performance issue with CredentialProvider. Information
+   stored in the CredentialProvider was not cached which resulted in repeatedly reading the
+   file from HDFS which can degrade HDFS performance.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2 id="known-issues">Known Issues</h2>
-<p>During testing <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8406">HDFS-8406</a> was encountered.  To work around this issue do
-the following :</p>
+<p>During testing <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8406">HDFS-8406</a> was encountered which is summarized by write-ahead log recovery
+that was never completed due to an inability to recover the HDFS lease on the WAL. To work around
+this issue, the following steps can be done:</p>
 <ol>
 <li>Locate block for walog whose lease can not be recovered.</li>
 <li>Copy block into HDFS as temp file TMP_WALOG</li>