upgraded sbt version, sbt plugins and some library dependencies to latest stable version
added SPARK_WORKER_INSTANCES : allows spawning multiple worker instances/processes on every slave machine
spark instance number must be present in log filename to prevent multiple workers from overriding each other's logs
Bump development version to 0.8.0
Fixed broken filter in getWritableClass[T]
Correct sense of 'filter out' in comment.
Merge pull request #548 from markhamstra/getWritableClass_filter

Fixed broken filter in getWritableClass[T]
Corrected order of CountMinSketchMonoid arguments
Fix argv handling in Python transitive closure example
Fix Python saveAsTextFile doctest to not expect order to be preserved
Merge pull request #551 from jey/python-bugfixes

Python bugfixes
Merge pull request #550 from erikvanoosten/master

corrected Algebird example
Bumping Algebird version in examples now that it supports JDK 1.6
SPARK-724 - Have Akka logging enabled by default for standalone daemons

See the JIRA for more details.

I was only able to test the bash version (don't have Windows)
so maybe check over that the syntax is correct there.
Update build to Scala 2.9.3
Retry failed ssh commands. This is especially useful during system startup when the hosts may not have yet come on-line but can be useful at other points for people with flakey connections
Merge pull request #554 from andyk/scala2.9.3

Fixes SPARK-723 - Update build to Scala 2.9.3
Merge pull request #552 from MLnick/master

Bumping version for Twitter Algebird to latest
Update Scala version in docs
Fix deprecated warning