The document summarizes recent developments in HBase, including:
- HBase has followed semantic versioning with 10 releases of version 1.x and version 2.0 will be rolling upgradable.
- Development focus areas include offheaping, write path improvements, and Spark integration.
- HBase is being dogfooded in several Apache projects including YARN Application Timeline Server, Hive MetaStore, and Ambari Metrics Server.
- There have been new committers added from various companies and currently 50 committers and 27 PMC members.