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.