HBASE-12699 undefined method 'setAsyncLogFlush' exception thrown when setting DEFERRED_LOG_FLUSH=>true (Stephen Jiang)
HBASE-9431 Set 'hbase.bulkload.retries.number' to 10 as HBASE-8450 claims
HBASE-12699 Addendum modifies shell help (Stephen Jiang)
Revert "HBASE-12652 Allow unmanaged connections in MetaTableAccessor (Solomon Duskis)"

This reverts commit 1c99261f5367bc4221152212068c6dc4fe4bc6f7.
HBASE-12121 maven release plugin does not allow for customized goals (Enoch Hsu)
HBASE-12645 HBaseTestingUtility is using ${$HOME} for rootDir (Varun Saxena)