HBASE-12128: Cache configuration and RpcController selection for Table in Connection

HBASE-12366: Add login code as AuthUtil

HBASE-12464: Meta table region assignment stuck in the FAILED_OPEN state due to region server not fully ready to serve

HBASE-13825: Use ProtobufUtil#mergeFrom and ProtobufUtil#mergeDelimitedFrom in place of builder methods of same name

HBASE-14207: Region was hijacked and remained in transition when RS failed to open a region and later regionplan changed to new RS on retry

HBASE-14280: Bulk Upload from HA cluster to remote HA HBase cluster fails

HBASE-14309: Allow load balancer to operate when there is region in transition by adding force flag

HBASE-14361: ReplicationSink should create Connection instances lazily

HBASE-14475: Region split requests are always audited with "HBase" user rather than request user

HBASE-14497: Reverse Scan threw StackOverflow caused by readPt checking

HBASE-14581: Znode cleanup throws auth exception in secure mode

HBASE-14594: Use new DNS API introduced in HADOOP-12437

HBASE-14621: ReplicationLogCleaner stuck on RS crash

HBASE-14680: Two configs for snapshot timeout and better defaults

HBASE-10499: In write-heavy scenario one of the regions does not get flushed causing RegionTooBusyException

HBASE-11569: Addendum for not skipping replayed edits for primary region replica

HBASE-12238: A few exceptions on startup - PARTIAL BACKPORT

HBASE-12533: staging directories are not deleted after secure bulk load

HBASE-12536: Reduce the effective scope of GLOBAL CREATE and ADMIN permission

HBASE-12562: Handling memory pressure for secondary region replicas - ADDENDUM for fixing findbug reported issues

HBASE-12575: Sanity check table coprocessor classes are loadable

HBASE-12714: RegionReplicaReplicationEndpoint should not set the RPC Codec

HBASE-12791: HBase does not attempt to clean up an aborted split when the regionserver shutting down

HBASE-12958: SSH doing HBase:meta get but HBase:meta not assigned

HBASE-13120: Allow disabling hadoop classpath and native library lookup

HBASE-212: Addendum. Fixes a unit test