HBASE-11960 Provide a sample to show how to use Thrift client authentication
HBASE-11462 MetaTableAccessor shouldn't use ZooKeeeper (Mikhail Antononv)
HBASE-12021 Hbase shell does not respect the HBASE_OPTS set by the user in console (Ashish Singhi)
HBASE-12007 StochasticBalancer should avoid putting user regions on master
HBASE-12005 Split/merge fails if master restarts before PONR
HBASE-12023 HRegion.applyFamilyMapToMemstore creates too many iterator objects. (Vladimir Rodionov)
HBASE-10757 Change HTable class doc so it sends people to HCM getting instances