[ANNOUNCE] HBase 0.94.27 is available for download

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

The HBase Team is pleased to announce the immediate release of HBase 0.94.27.
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 0.97.27 via a rolling upgrade without downtime, intermediary versions can be skipped.

HBase 0.94.27 is a bug fix release with 12 fixes:
[HBASE-12776] - SpliTransaction: Log number of files to be split
[HBASE-10528] - DefaultBalancer selects plans to move regions onto draining nodes
[HBASE-12792] - [backport] HBASE-5835: Catch and handle NotServingRegionException when close region attempt fails
[HBASE-12801] - Failed to truncate a table while maintaing binary region boundaries
[HBASE-12968] - [0.94]SecureServer should not ignore CallQueueSize
[HBASE-13039] - Add patchprocess/* to .gitignore to fix builds of branches
[HBASE-13131] - ReplicationAdmin leaks connections if there's an error in the constructor
[HBASE-13229] - Specify bash for local-regionservers.sh and local-master-backup.sh
[HBASE-11195] - Potentially improve block locality during major compaction for old regions
[HBASE-12223] - MultiTableInputFormatBase.getSplits is too slow
[HBASE-12720] - Make InternalScan LimitedPrivate
[HBASE-13020] - Add 'patchprocess/*' to RAT excludes on all branches

See also the full release notes [2].
Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release!

Note that 0.94 is in "maintenance mode", you are encouraged to upgrade to HBase 0.98 or later.

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=12329056