fix quoting in CqlPagingRecordReader and CqlRecordWriter
patch by Alex Liu; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5824
r/m stray @
fix bulk-loading compressed sstables
patch by Tyler Hobbs and yukim; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5820
add ICompressedFile
Allow compacting 2Is via nodetool
patch by jasobrown; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5670
Hex-encode non-String keys in OPP
patch by Vara Kumar and jbellis for CASSANDRA-5793
add time-daemon as an alternative to ntp in Debian Recommends
patch by Blair Zajac and Paul Cannon for CASSANDRA-5816
nodetool history logging
patch by jasobrown; reviewed by Dave Brosius for CASSANDRA-5823
fix support for Thrift tables in CqlPagingRecordReader
patch by Alex Liu; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5752
cleanup
r/m PBS test since it keeps heisenfailing (PBS is already gone for 2.0; see #5455)
updating NEWS.txt
Fix rare IOOBE in sendGossip
Patch by Chris Lohfink, reviewed by brandonwilliams for CASSANDRA-4774
fix logging format string
log Initializing at info
add "all time blocked" to StatusLogger output
patch by Tyler Hobbs; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5825
compile stress classes with debug symbols (so you can see the line numbers on stack traces)
Future-proof inter-major-version schema migrations

patch by Aleksey Yeschenko; reviewed by Jonathan Ellis for
CASSANDRA-5845
Better exception msg for invalid CLUSTRING ORDER
add CqlPagingRecordReader support for ReversedType in Thrift table
patch by Alex Liu; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5718