KAFKA-1068 OfflinePartitionCount metrics may be incorrect after the controller failover; reviewed by Neha Narkhede and Guozhang Wang
KAFKA-1071; The random partition selected in DefaultEventHandler is not random across producer instances; reviewed by Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao
kafka-1076; system tests in 0.8 are broken due to wrong log4j config; patched by Joel Koshy; reviewed by Jay Kreps and Jun Rao
kafka-1073; CheckReassignmentStatus is broken; patched by Jun Rao; reviewed by Guozhang Wang, Swapnil Ghike and Neha Narkhede
trivial follow-up patch for kafka-1073 to fix unit tests; patched by Jun Rao
KAFKA-1075; Consumer will not rebalance upon topic partition change; reviewed by Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao
Merge remote branch 'origin/0.8' into trunk
kafka-1069; MBean kafka.cluster.Partition report wrong UnderReplicated status; patched by Jun Rao; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
kafka-1078; Update System Test to handle controller data returned by ZK; patched by John Fung; reviewed by Jun Rao
kafka-954; tidy up README file for better general availability; patched by Jun Rao; reviewed by Joe Stein and Neha Narkhede
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/0.8' into trunk
kafka-1052; integrate add-partitions command into topicCommand; patched by Sriram Subramanian; reviewed by Jun Rao
trivial change to remove unused command bin/kafka-add-partitions.sh
KAFKA-1018 tidy up the pom, 0.8.0 release, build the test jars now too
KAFKA-1081 Clean up shell scripts. Removed re-run of failed command. Use exec instead of subprocess execution.
KAFKA-1087 Empty topic list causes consumer to fetch metadata of all topics; reviewed by Guozhang Wang and Neha Narkhede
kafka-1084; Validate properties for custom serializers; patched by Francois Saint-Jacquese; reviewed by Jun Rao
KAFKA-1086 Improve GetOffsetShell to find metadata automatically; reviewed by Jun Rao
KAFKA-1008 Lock around unmap on windows.
KAFKA-1036 Close checkpoint file before renaming it for Windows compatibility.