The HBase team is happy to announce the immediate availability of HBase 1.2.3. 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/. HBase 1.2.3 is the third maintenance release in the HBase 1.2.x line, continuing on the theme of bringing a stable, reliable database to the Hadoop and NoSQL communities. This release includes 49 resolved issues since the 1.2.2 release. The HBase community has designated the 1.2 line as the current stable release line. All HBase 1.1 users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. Notable fixes include: * [HBASE-15811] - Batch Get after batch Put does not fetch all Cells * [HBASE-15698] - Increment TimeRange not serialized to server * [HBASE-15234] - ReplicationLogCleaner can abort due to transient ZK issues * [HBASE-15645] - hbase.rpc.timeout is not used in operations of HTable * [HBASE-15622] - Superusers does not consider the keytab credentials * [HBASE-15856] - Cached Connection instances can wind up with addresses never resolved * [HBASE-15873] - ACL for snapshot restore / clone is not enforced * [HBASE-16093] - Splits failed before creating daughter regions leave meta inconsistent The full list of issues can be found in the CHANGES.txt file included in the release and online at: https://s.apache.org/ hbase-1.2.3-jira-releasenotes Download through an ASF mirror near you: https://www.apache.org/dyn/ closer.lua/hbase/1.2.3 The relevant checksums files are available at: https://www.apache.org/dist/ hbase/1.2.3/hbase-1.2.3-src.tar.gz.mds https://www.apache.org/dist/ hbase/1.2.3/hbase-1.2.3-bin.tar.gz.mds Project member signature keys can be found at https://www.apache.org/dist/ hbase/KEYS PGP signatures are available at:https://www.apache.org/dist/ hbase/1.2.3/hbase-1.2.3-src.tar.gz.asc https://www.apache.org/dist/ hbase/1.2.3/hbase-1.2.3-bin.tar.gz.asc For instructions on verifying ASF release downloads, please see https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi#verify Question, comments, and problems are always welcome at: dev@hbase.apache.org. Yours, The HBase Dev Team