Preparing hbase release 2.6.1RC1; tagging and updates to CHANGES.md a…

…nd RELEASENOTES.md

Signed-off-by: Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]>

CHANGES.md

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 # HBASE Changelog
 
-## Release 2.6.1 - Unreleased (as of 2024-10-01)
+## Release 2.6.1 - Unreleased (as of 2024-10-09)
 
 
 
@@ -59,16 +59,17 @@
 | [HBASE-28734](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28734) | Improve HBase shell snapshot command Doc with TTL option |  Minor | shell |
 | [HBASE-28686](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28686) | MapReduceBackupCopyJob should support custom DistCp options |  Major | . |
 | [HBASE-28522](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28522) | UNASSIGN proc indefinitely stuck on dead rs |  Critical | proc-v2, Region Assignment |
-| [HBASE-28346](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28346) | Expose checkQuota to Coprocessor Endpoints |  Major | . |
 | [HBASE-28732](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28732) | Fix typo in Jenkinsfile\_Github for jdk8 hadoop2 check |  Major | jenkins |
 | [HBASE-28725](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28725) | Use thirdparty protobuf for REST interface in HBase 2.x |  Major | REST |
 | [HBASE-28775](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28775) | Change the output of DatanodeInfo in the log to the hostname of the datanode |  Minor | wal |
-| [HBASE-28001](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28001) | Add request attribute support to BufferedMutator |  Major | . |
 | [HBASE-28850](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28850) | Only return from ReplicationSink.replicationEntries while all background tasks are finished |  Major | Replication, rpc |
 | [HBASE-27118](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27118) | Add security headers to Thrift/HTTP server |  Major | Thrift |
 | [HBASE-28816](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28816) | The description of "hbase.superuser" is confusing |  Major | documentation |
-| [HBASE-28770](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28770) | Support partial results in AggregateImplementation and AsyncAggregationClient |  Major | Client, Coprocessors, Quotas |
 | [HBASE-27903](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27903) | Skip submitting Split/Merge procedure when split/merge is disabled at table level |  Minor | Admin |
+| [HBASE-28346](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28346) | Expose checkQuota to Coprocessor Endpoints |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-28001](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28001) | Add request attribute support to BufferedMutator |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-28770](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28770) | Support partial results in AggregateImplementation and AsyncAggregationClient |  Major | Client, Coprocessors, Quotas |
+| [HBASE-28905](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28905) | Skip excessive evaluations of LINK\_NAME\_PATTERN and REF\_NAME\_PATTERN regular expressions |  Minor | . |
 
 
 ### BUG FIXES:
@@ -137,12 +138,14 @@
 | [HBASE-28778](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28778) | NPE may occur when opening master-status or table.jsp or procedure.jsp while Master is initializing |  Major | UI |
 | [HBASE-28810](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28810) | Improve BackupLogCleaner naming, debug logging |  Major | backup&restore |
 | [HBASE-28696](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28696) | Partition BackupSystemTable queries |  Major | . |
-| [HBASE-28396](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28396) | Quota throttling can cause a leak of scanners |  Major | . |
 | [HBASE-28867](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28867) | Backport "HBASE-20653 Add missing observer hooks for region server group to MasterObserver" to branch-2 |  Major | rsgroup |
-| [HBASE-28842](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28842) | TestRequestAttributes should fail when expected |  Major | . |
 | [HBASE-28705](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28705) | BackupLogCleaner cleans required WALs when using multiple backuproots |  Blocker | backup&restore |
 | [HBASE-28187](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28187) | NPE when flushing a non-existing column family |  Major | Client, regionserver |
 | [HBASE-28803](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28803) | HBase Master stuck due to improper handling of WALSyncTimeoutException within UncheckedIOException |  Critical | master, wal |
+| [HBASE-28890](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28890) | RefCnt Leak error when caching index blocks at write time |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-28396](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28396) | Quota throttling can cause a leak of scanners |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-28842](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28842) | TestRequestAttributes should fail when expected |  Major | . |
+| [HBASE-28721](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28721) | AsyncFSWAL is broken when running against hadoop 3.4.0 |  Major | hadoop3, wal |
 
 
 ### SUB-TASKS:
@@ -184,6 +187,7 @@
 | [HBASE-28868](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28868) | Add missing permission check for updateRSGroupConfig in branch-2 |  Minor | rsgroup |
 | [HBASE-28642](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28642) | Hide old PR comments when posting new |  Major | build, community |
 | [HBASE-28879](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28879) | Bump hbase-thirdparty to 4.1.9 |  Major | dependencies, thirdparty |
+| [HBASE-28895](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28895) | Bump Avro dependency version to 1.11.4 |  Major | . |
 
 
 ## Release 2.6.0 - Unreleased (as of 2024-04-29)

RELEASENOTES.md

@@ -89,6 +89,27 @@ The bucket cache is capable of reading old format of persistence (of single prot
 The HMaster will now abort when it detects a WALSyncTimeoutException while making edits to the MasterRegion.
 
 
+---
+
+* [HBASE-28346](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28346) | *Major* | **Expose checkQuota to Coprocessor Endpoints**
+
+For backward compatibility purposes, default, throwing implementations are provided for the new methods for 2.7.0 and 2.6.1. Custom implementation that want to take advantage of the new functionality should override those methods as appropriate.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-28001](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28001) | *Major* | **Add request attribute support to BufferedMutator**
+
+For backward compatibility purposes, default, throwing implementations are provided for the new methods for 2.7.0 and 2.6.1. Custom implementation that want to take advantage of the new functionality should override those methods as appropriate.
+
+
+---
+
+* [HBASE-28770](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28770) | *Major* | **Support partial results in AggregateImplementation and AsyncAggregationClient**
+
+For backward compatibility purposes, default, throwing implementations are provided for the new methods for 2.7.0 and 2.6.1. Custom implementation that want to take advantage of the new functionality should override those methods as appropriate.
+
+
 
 # HBASE  2.6.0 Release Notes
 

pom.xml

@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@
     </site>
   </distributionManagement>
   <properties>
-    <revision>2.6.2-SNAPSHOT</revision>
+    <revision>2.6.1</revision>
     <!-- override on command line to have generated LICENSE files include
          diagnostic info for verifying notice requirements -->
     <license.debug.print.included>false</license.debug.print.included>