These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.
HBASE-26534 upgrades hbase-thirdparty to 4.0.1, hbase to 2.4.9, spark to 3.1.2, and hadoop to 3.2.0. Also It builds with spark3 with scala-2.12 and hadoop3 profile as default option.
Upgraded commons-io to 2.11.0.
Upgraded commons-io to 2.8.0.
Bumped the Checkstyle version from 8.11 to 8.18
The HBase connector for working with Apache Spark now works with the shaded client artifacts provided by the Apache HBase project and avoids adding additional third party dependencies to the classpath.