[ANNOUNCE] HBase FileSystem 1.0.0-alpha1 is now available for download

[Wellington Chevreuil <we...@gmail.com>]

The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Apache
HBase FileSystem 1.0.0-alpha1.

Apache HBase FileSystem provides additional Apache Hadoop's FileSystem
interface implementation, in order to enforce HBase expected FileSystem
semantics on top of object-store implementations of Hadoop FileSystem, such
as s3a.

HBase FileSystem 1.0.0-alpha1 is the first alpha release of
hbase-filesystem. It is compatible with:
- HBase 2.1.4
- Hadoop 2.9.2
- Hadoop 3.2.0

The full list of features can be found in the included CHANGES.md and
RELEASENOTES.md,
or via our issue tracker:
https://s.apache.org/hbase-filesystem-1.0.0-alpha1

Download through an ASF mirror near you:
http://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/hbase-filesystem-1.0.0-alpha1/

Relevant checksum file is available at:
http://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/hbase-filesystem-1.0.0-alpha1/hbase-filesystem-1.0.0-alpha1-src.tar.gz.sha512

PGP signature available at:
http://www.apache.org/dist/hbase/hbase-filesystem-1.0.0-alpha1/hbase-filesystem-1.0.0-alpha1-src.tar.gz.asc

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