Update HBase.thrift from newer HBase release
Regenerate Thrift interaction code from newer .thrift file

Yuck, generating code still doesn't feel right in Python.
Adapt to API changes in regenerated Thrift API

Simply pass an empty dictionary to each method that takes an
'attributes' arg in the regenerated Thrift API.
Update to newer upstream Thrift API definition

Regenerated Thrift interaction code, and adapt to API changes..