kafka-1396; fix transient unit test ProducerFailureHandlingTest.testBrokerFailure;  patched by Guozhang Wang; reviewed by Jun Rao
KAFKA-1437; Consumer metadata response should include (empty) coordinator information if the coordinator is unavailable; reviewed by Neha Narkhede and Guozhang Wang.
KAFKA-1431 ConsoleConsumer - Option to clean zk consumer path;reviewed by Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao
KAFKA-1445 Send all partitions, regardless of how full, whenever we are sending a request to a broker. Patch from Guozhang.
KAFKA-1179 createMessageStreams() in javaapi.ZookeeperConsumerConnector does not throw; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
kafka-1453; Add a channel queue jmx in Mirror Maker;  patched by Guozhang Wang; reviewed by Jun Rao
kafka-1453 (follow-up); Add a channel queue jmx in Mirror Maker;  patched by Guozhang Wang; reviewed by Jun Rao
kafka-1453 (2nd follow-up); Add a channel queue jmx in Mirror Maker;  patched by Guozhang Wang; reviewed by Jun Rao
KAFKA-1328 New consumer APIs; reviewed by Jun Rao and Guozhang Wang
KAFKA-1328 follow up: Updated javadoc
KAFKA-1298 Controlled shutdown tool doesn't seem to work out of the box; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
KAFKA-1446 Consumer metrics for rebalance; reviewed by Neha Narkhede and Joel Koshy
KAFKA-1456 Add LZ4 and LZ4C as a compression codec patch by James Oliver reviewed by Joe Stein
KAFKA-1444 kafka.javaapi.TopicMetadata and PartitionMetadata doesn't forward the toString method; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
KAFKA-1459 kafka.tools.ConsumerOffsetChecker throws NoNodeException; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
KAFKA-924. Specify console consumer properties via a single --property command line parameter; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
trival fix to remove reference of sbt in README
KAFKA-1459 follow up minor patch
KAFKA-1468 Misc. improvements from benchmarking.
kafka-924 (follow-up); Specify console consumer properties via a single --property command line parameter;;  patched by Sriharsha Chintalapani; reviewed by Jun Rao