[ANNOUNCE] Apache HBase 1.4.4 is now available for download

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

​The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Apach​e
HBase 1.4.4!

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/1.4.4

HBase 1.4.4 is the fifth release of the new 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 21 issues resolved in this release can be found at
https://s.apache.org/E6GG .

Best,
The HBase Dev Team


HBASE-15291 FileSystem not closed in secure bulkLoad
HBASE-15466 precommit should not run all java goals when given a docs-only
patch
HBASE-17631 Canary interval too low
HBASE-19343 Restore snapshot makes split parent region online
HBASE-20068 Hadoopcheck project health check uses default maven repo
instead of yetus managed ones
HBASE-20112 Include test results from nightly hadoop3 tests in jenkins test
results
HBASE-20231 Not able to delete column family from a row using RemoteHTable
HBASE-20276 [shell] Revert shell REPL change and document
HBASE-20280 Fix possibility of deadlocking in refreshFileConnections when
prefetch is enabled
HBASE-20292 Wrong URLs in the descriptions for update_all_config and
update_config commands in shell
HBASE-20293 get_splits returns duplicate split points when region
replication is on
HBASE-20301 Remove the meaningless plus sign from table.jsp
HBASE-20302 CatalogJanitor should log the reason why it is disabled
HBASE-20322 CME in StoreScanner causes region server crash
HBASE-20335 nightly jobs no longer contain machine information
HBASE-20352 [Chore] Backport HBASE-18309 to branch-1
HBASE-20364 nightly job gives old results or no results for stages that
timeout on SCM
HBASE-20379 shadedjars yetus plugin should add a footer link
HBASE-20404 Ugly cleanerchore complaint that dir is not empty
HBASE-20459 Majority of scan CPU time in HBase-1 spent in size estimation
HBASE-20463 Fix breakage introduced on branch-1 by HBASE-20276 "[shell]
Revert shell REPL change and document"​