[ANNOUNCE] Apache HBase 1.1.6 is now available for download

[Nick Dimiduk <nd...@apache.org>]

The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of HBase
1.1.6! Download it from an Apache mirror near you,
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/, or wire up through the maven
repo.

HBase 1.1.6 is the sixth patch release in the HBase 1.1 line, continuing on
the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Hadoop and NoSQL
communities. This much anticipated release includes over 70 bug fixes since
the 1.1.5 release. Notable correctness fixes include:

HBASE-15698 Increment TimeRange not serialized to server
HBASE-15856 Cached Connection instances can wind up with addresses never
resolved
HBASE-15878 Deprecate doBulkLoad(Path hfofDir, final HTable table) in
branch-1 (even though its 'late')
HBASE-16012 Major compaction can't work due to obsolete scanner read point
in RegionServer
HBASE-16056 Procedure v2 - fix master crash for FileNotFound
HBASE-16093 Splits failed before creating daughter regions leave meta
inconsistent
HBASE-16132 Scan does not return all the result when regionserver is busy
HBASE-16237 Blocks for hbase:meta table are not cached in L1 cache
HBASE-16288 HFile intermediate block level indexes might recurse forever
creating multi TB files
HBASE-16420 Fix source incompatibility of Table interface
HBASE-16429 FSHLog: deadlock if rollWriter called when ring buffer filled
with appends
HBASE-16464 archive folder grows bigger and bigger due to corrupt snapshot
under tmp dir

The full list of fixes included in this release is available at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12335679
and and in the CHANGES.txt file included in the distribution.

Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible!

Cheers,
The HBase Dev Team