[ANNOUNCE] HBase 0.94.22 is available for download

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

The HBase Team is pleased to announce the immediate release of HBase 0.94.22.
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 0.94.22 via a rolling upgrade without downtime, intermediary versions can be skipped.

HBase 0.94.22 is a small bug fix release with 13 fixes:
    [HBASE-10645] - Fix wrapping of Requests Counts Regionserver level metrics
    [HBASE-11360] - SnapshotFileCache causes too many cache refreshes
    [HBASE-11479] - SecureConnection can't be closed when SecureClient is stopping because InterruptedException won't be caught in SecureClient#setupIOstreams()
    [HBASE-11496] - HBASE-9745 broke cygwin CLASSPATH translation
    [HBASE-11552] - Read/Write requests count metric value is too short
    [HBASE-11565] - Stale connection could stay for a while
    [HBASE-11633] - [0.94] port HBASE-11217 Race between SplitLogManager task creation + TimeoutMonitor
    [HBASE-2217] - VM OPTS for shell only
    [HBASE-7910] - Dont use reflection for security
    [HBASE-11444] - Remove use of reflection for User#getShortName
    [HBASE-11450] - Improve file size info in SnapshotInfo tool
    [HBASE-11480] - ClientScanner might not close the HConnection created in construction
    [HBASE-11623] - mutateRowsWithLocks might require updatesLock.readLock with waitTime=0

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=12327117