June 2026: Delivered two targeted improvements across Apache HBase and Phoenix to strengthen security and data ingestion reliability. Implemented security hardening by removing transitive jakarta.mail dependency to mitigate CVE-2025-7962 in HBase and improved Phoenix CSV parsing to gracefully handle malformed records, preventing job failures. These changes reduce risk, improve stability, and support more reliable production workloads.

April 2026 (apache/phoenix): Delivered REGEXP_LIKE built-in function to enhance in-database string pattern matching. The feature adds case-sensitive and multiline matching capabilities, with both byte-based and string-based regex options to improve flexibility and performance for complex queries. Commit PHOENIX-7276: 5d14dec56959018b7c63bb7a0b9848392ed53e60 (#2398). This work strengthens the Phoenix SQL layer, enabling more expressive queries and reducing the need for external processing.

Concise monthly summary for 2026-03 focusing on a key feature delivered in the apache/hbase repository and the impact across the codebase and team.