If you want a more in depth blog post about what's different about this release Enis has written up something here: https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/start_o

If you want a more in depth blog post about what's different about this release Enis has written up something here: https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/start_of_a_new_era https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/start_of_a_new_era There's been a ton of work on getting to where the community really felt good about stamping something with a real stable version. This release should have not just stability for a running system but stability of api.