add a -no-snapshot option to scrub to be able to run in tight disk space scenarios
patch by ltodorov reviewed by dbrosius for cassandra-5891
Integer overflow in OffHeapBitSet when bloomfilter > 2GB
patch by Vijay; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5903
edit changes.txt for CASSANDRA-5903
CQL3 documentation fixes (#5878)
Properly handle parsing huge map and set literals

patch by Aleksey Yeschenko; reviewed by Sylvain Lebresne for
CASSANDRA-5893
use long math on deserialize as well
patch by Taylan Develioglu; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5903
Fix LCS L0 compaction may overlap in L1

patch by yukim; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5907
add metrics-core license
remove licenses for jars not used
additional check for offheap bloom filter size
patch by Vijay; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5903
Add SSTableSplitter tool to split sstables offline

patch by slebresne; reviewed by krummas for CASSANDRA-4766
fix nodetool getendpoints when the key has a space in it
patch by gdeangelis reviewed by dbrosius for CASSANDRA-4551
Correct minor CQL3 grammar rules (USING)
Fix potential deadlock in the native protocol

patch by slebresne; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-5926
Fix typo
Disallow incompatible type change in CQL3

patch by slebresne; reviewed by iamaleksey for CASSANDRA-5882
Versions for 1.2.9 release
Allow disabling SlabAllocator
patch by jbellis; reviewed by jasobrown for CASSANDRA-5935
Make user-defined compactionJMX blocking
patch by jbellis; reviewed by Michael Harris for CASSANDRA-4952
label 99.9th correctly