[ACCUMULO-613] release Accumulo 1.3.6

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.6
• Assignee: Eric C. Newton
• Reporter: Adam Fuchs
• Created: 04/Jun/12 14:33
• Updated: 04/Sep/12 21:00
• Resolved: 04/Sep/12 21:00

Description

A number of improvements make it time to release the next version on the 1.3 branch. Some highlights include:

• Fixing a problem where the master gets stuck loading a table with a large root tablet (ACCUMULO-542)
• Fixing a problem where the master fails to balance tablets after a tablet server fails (ACCUMULO-202)
• Fix of potential data loss that can occur if a failure coincides with a recovery (ACCUMULO-444)
• Improved locality for MapReduce with AccumuloInputFormat (ACCUMULO-395)
• Fixed garbage collector problems when tracer is offline (ACCUMULO-499)
• Scripted building the 0.3 version of libthrift (ACCUMULO-563)
• Connections from master to tserver now properly reset after failure (ACCUMULO-530)
• Many more to be found in this list of tickets.

Before the release, perform the following tests for quality assurance:

1. Run the functional test suite.
2. Run the continuous ingest test over at least a 12 hour period, and verify results.
3. Update CHANGES