[ANNOUNCE] HBase 0.94.20 is available for download

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

The HBase Team is pleased to announce the immediate release of HBase 0.94.20.
Download it from your favorite Apache mirror [1].
This release has also been pushed to Apache's maven repository. (Thanks Stack for working out the process with git)

All previous 0.92.x and 0.94.x releases can upgraded to 0.94.20 via a rolling upgrade without downtime, intermediary versions can be skipped.

HBase 0.94.20 is a small bug fix release with 12 fixes:
    [HBASE-10936] - Add zeroByte encoding test
    [HBASE-10958] - [dataloss] Bulk loading with seqids can prevent some log entries from being replayed
    [HBASE-11110] - Ability to load FilterList class is dependent on context classloader
    [HBASE-11143] - Improve replication metrics
    [HBASE-11188] - "Inconsistent configuration" for SchemaMetrics is always shown
    [HBASE-11212] - Fix increment index in KeyValueSortReducer
    [HBASE-11225] - Backport fix for HBASE-10417 'index is not incremented in PutSortReducer#reduce()'
    [HBASE-11247] - [0.94] update maven-site-plugin to 3.3
    [HBASE-11008] - Align bulk load, flush, and compact to require Action.CREATE
    [HBASE-11119] - Update ExportSnapShot to optionally not use a tmp file on external file system
    [HBASE-11128] - Add -target option to ExportSnapshot to export with a different name
    [HBASE-11134] - Add a -list-snapshots option to SnapshotInfo


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=12326654