allow fat jar creation
copying ConsistencyLevel from ThriftColumnFamilyQueryImpl when constructing AbstractThriftCqlQuery.
Fixed rack equality check in describeRing()
Using original TBinaryProtocol from Thrift Library
Merge pull request #404 from sagarl/a6xissue391

Using original TBinaryProtocol from Thrift Library
[Gradle Release Plugin] - pre tag commit:  '1.56.43'.
[Gradle Release Plugin] - new version commit:  '1.56.44-SNAPSHOT'.
Merge pull request #400 from cfei18/master

Fixed rack equality check in describeRing()
Merge pull request #398 from paulcichonski/master

Allow ColumnFamilyQuery#setConsistencyLevel to carry over to CqlQuery instances which it constructs.

Just making sure that you are aware of following:

1) In C* 1.1, if we need to set Consistency Level in Astyanax for CQL stmts, then it needs to be passed within each CQL statement (eg. Select * from CF1 USING CONSISTENCY QUORUM;). 

Although Astyanax api provides a way to pass in CL Level (after this pull request), for 1.1 ( or for CQL2), it gets dropped on the floor. And hence, it defaults to CL_ONE. (This is a limitation of C* 1.1 and CQL2. Not of Astyanax)

2) But with C* 1.2 (in CQL3) , we can set CL Level globally for CQL stmts (after this pull request).
Issue #421 - Fixed sleep timeout going negative
Issue #421 - maxSleepTimeMs changed to long
Merge pull request #422 from peterox/issue_421

Issue #421 - Fixed sleep timeout going negative
Issue #419 Support a LOCAL_ONE consistency level
Merge pull request #425 from omar-eyeviewdigital/master

Issue #419 Support a LOCAL_ONE consistency level
Adding in blocking check for failure from function when using all rows reader
Removing use of CyclicBarrier from AllRowsReader.
bumping up version for cassandra-thrift
Merge pull request #429 from Netflix/buildfix

bumping up version for cassandra-thrift
Appending ex messages and stack traces when there are multiple exceptions. This makes debugging easier for clients
Merge pull request #428 from opuneet/issue427

Adding in blocking check for failure from function