STORM-1136: Command line module to return Kafka spout offsets lag and display in storm UI.

STORM-1575: Fix TwitterSampleSpout NPE on close.

STORM-1674: Idle KafkaSpout consumes more bandwidth than needed.

STORM-1694: Kafka Spout Trident Implementation Using New Kafka Consumer API.

STORM-1698: Asynchronous MetricsConsumerBolt.

STORM-1700: Introduce 'whitelist' / 'blacklist' option to MetricsConsumer.

STORM-1705: Cap number of retries for a failed message.

STORM-1709: Added group by support in storm SQL standalone mode.

STORM-1719: Introduce REST API: Topology metric stats for stream.

STORM-1720: Support GEO in storm-redis.

STORM-1723: Introduce ClusterMetricsConsumer.

STORM-1728: TransactionalTridentKafkaSpout error.

STORM-1730: LocalCluster#shutdown() does not terminate all storm threads/thread pools.

STORM-1742: More accurate 'complete latency'.

STORM-1771: HiveState should flushAndClose before closing old or idle Hive connections.

STORM-1833: Simple equi-join in storm-sql standalone mode.

STORM-1839: Kinesis Spout.

STORM-1841: Address a few minor issues in windowing and doc.

STORM-1842: Forward references in storm.thrift cause tooling issues.

STORM-1848: Make KafkaMessageId and Partition serializable to support.

STORM-1849: HDFSFileTopology should use the 3rd argument as topologyName.

STORM-1850: State Checkpointing Documentation update.

STORM-1851: Fix default nimbus impersonation authorizer config.

STORM-1859: Late tuples in windowed mode.

STORM-1862: Flux ShellSpout and ShellBolt can't emit to named streams.

STORM-1864: StormSubmitter should throw respective exceptions and log respective errors for registered submitter hook invocation.

STORM-1865: Update command line client document.

STORM-1866: Update Resource Aware Scheduler Documentation.

STORM-1868: Modify TridentKafkaWordCount to run in distributed mode.

STORM-1873: Implement alternative behaviour for late tuples.

STORM-1874: Update logger private permissions.

STORM-1878: Flux can now handle IStatefulBolts.

STORM-1882: Expose TextFileReader public.

STORM-1884: Prioritize pendingPrepare over pendingCommit.

STORM-1887: Fixed help message for set_log_level command.

STORM-1888: Add description for shell command.

STORM-1893: Support OpenTSDB for storing timeseries data.

STORM-1902: Add a simple & flexible FileNameFormat for storm-hdfs.

STORM-1906: Window count/length of zero should be disallowed.

STORM-1907: PartitionedTridentSpoutExecutor has incompatible types that cause ClassCastException.

STORM-1909: Update HDFS spout documentation.

STORM-1911: IClusterMetricsConsumer should use seconds to timestamp unit.

STORM-1914: Storm Kafka Field Topic Selector.

STORM-1919: Introduce FilterBolt on storm-redis.

STORM-1924: Adding conf options for Persistent Word Count Topology.

STORM-1925: Remove Nimbus thrift call from Nimbus itself.

STORM-1930: Kafka New Client API - Support for Topic Wildcards.

STORM-1934: Fix race condition between sync-supervisor and sync-processes.

STORM-1945: Fix NPE bugs on topology spout lag for storm-kafka-monitor.

STORM-1950: Change response json of "Topology Lag" REST API to keyed by spoutId, topic, partition.

STORM-1956: Disabling Backpressure by default.

STORM-1959: Add missing license header to KafkaPartitionOffsetLag.

STORM-1960: Add CORS support to STORM UI REST API.