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 HBase Change Log
 
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+Release Notes - HBase - Version 1.1.8 12/12/2016
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+    * [HBASE-12748] - RegionCoprocessorHost.execOperation creates too many iterator objects
+    * [HBASE-16874] - Fix TestMasterFailoverWithProcedures and ensure single proc-executor for kill/restart tests
+    * [HBASE-16970] - Clarify misleading Scan.java comment about caching
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+    * [HBASE-15324] - Jitter may cause desiredMaxFileSize overflow in ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy and trigger unexpected split
+    * [HBASE-16699] - Overflows in AverageIntervalRateLimiter's refill() and getWaitInterval()
+    * [HBASE-16701] - TestHRegion and TestHRegionWithInMemoryFlush timing out
+    * [HBASE-16721] - Concurrency issue in WAL unflushed seqId tracking
+    * [HBASE-16765] - New SteppingRegionSplitPolicy, avoid too aggressive spread of regions for small tables.
+    * [HBASE-16807] - RegionServer will fail to report new active Hmaster until HMaster/RegionServer failover
+    * [HBASE-16815] - Low scan ratio in RPC queue tuning triggers divide by zero exception
+    * [HBASE-16824] - Writer.flush() can be called on already closed streams in WAL roll
+    * [HBASE-16830] - RSRpcServices#openRegion() should handle the case where table descriptor is null
+    * [HBASE-16870] - Add the metrics of replication sources which were transformed from other dead rs to ReplicationLoad
+    * [HBASE-16886] - hbase-client: scanner with reversed=true and small=true gets no result
+    * [HBASE-16889] - Proc-V2: verifyTables in the IntegrationTestDDLMasterFailover test after each table DDL is incorrect 
+    * [HBASE-16931] - Setting cell's seqId to zero in compaction flow might cause RS down.
+    * [HBASE-16934] - Revert ITBLL misconfiguration check introduced in HBASE-16562
+    * [HBASE-16939] - ExportSnapshot: set owner and permission on right directory
+    * [HBASE-16960] - RegionServer hang when aborting
+    * [HBASE-16980] - TestRowProcessorEndpoint failing consistently
+    * [HBASE-17020] - keylen in midkey() dont computed correctly
+    * [HBASE-17022] - TestMasterFailoverWithProcedures#testTruncateWithFailover fails constantly in branch-1.1
+    * [HBASE-17023] - Region left unassigned due to AM and SSH each thinking others would do the assignment work
+    * [HBASE-17039] - SimpleLoadBalancer schedules large amount of invalid region moves
+    * [HBASE-17042] - Remove 'public' keyword from MasterObserver interface
+    * [HBASE-17044] - Fix merge failed before creating merged region leaves meta inconsistent
+    * [HBASE-17058] - Lower epsilon used for jitter verification from HBASE-15324
+    * [HBASE-17074] - PreCommit job always fails because of OOM
+    * [HBASE-17091] - IntegrationTestZKAndFSPermissions failed with 'KeeperException$NoNodeException' 
+    * [HBASE-17112] - Prevent setting timestamp of delta operations the same as previous value's
+    * [HBASE-17118] - StoreScanner leaked in KeyValueHeap
+    * [HBASE-17127] - Locate region should fail fast if underlying Connection already closed
+    * [HBASE-17206] - FSHLog may roll a new writer successfully with unflushed entries
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+** Improvement
+    * [HBASE-16033] - Add more details in logging of responseTooSlow/TooLarge
+    * [HBASE-16972] - Log more details for Scan#next request when responseTooSlow
+    * [HBASE-17004] - Refactor IntegrationTestManyRegions to use @ClassRule for timing out
+    * [HBASE-17006] - Add names to threads for better debugability of thread dumps
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+** Task
+    * [HBASE-16749] - HBase root pom.xml contains repo from people.apache.org/~garyh
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 Release Notes - HBase - Version 1.1.7 10/14/2016
 
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