HBASE-12479 Backport HBASE-11689 (Track meta in transition) (Virag Kothari)
HBASE-12479 Backport HBASE-11689 (Track meta in transition) (Virag Kothari); addendum

Test fix for TestAssignmentManagerOnCluster
HBASE-12573 Backport HBASE-10591 Sanity check table configuration in createTable (Enis Soztutar)
Amend HBASE-12573 Backport HBASE-10591 Sanity check table configuration in createTable

Fix test failures in TestThriftServer and TestThriftServerCmdLine
HBASE-12537 HBase should log the remote host on replication error (Stack)

Conflicts:
	hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/ipc/RpcServer.java
HBASE-12383 Move 0.98 build to surefire 2.18

Backports additional Surefire configuration changes from POM on master branch
HBASE-12616 We lost the linked list commands in recent usage refactoring
HBASE-12614 Potentially unclosed StoreFile(s) in DefaultCompactor#compact()
HBASE-12398 Region isn't assigned in an extreme race condition (Jeffrey Zhong)
HBASE-11099 Two situations where we could open a region with smaller sequence number (Stephen Jiang)
HBASE-12618 Add 'Namespace' to headers while displaying user permissions (Ashish Singhi)
HBASE-12582 Backport HBASE-10881 'Support reverse scan in thrift2' to 0.98 (Ted Yu)
HBASE-12624 Remove rename_snapshot.rb from code as there is no equivalent renameSnapshot api in Admin class (Ashish Singhi)
HBASE-12431 Use of getColumnLatestCell(byte[], int, int, byte[], int, int) is Not Thread Safe (Jingcheng Du)

(cherry picked from commit c45772e76a581838ea89ff303d0ff67ceaa82845)
HBASE-12634 Fix the AccessController#requireGlobalPermission(ns) with NS

Signed-off-by: Matteo Bertozzi <matteo.bertozzi@cloudera.com>
HBASE-12635 Delete acl notify znode of table after the table is deleted (Liu Shaohui)
HBASE-12619 Backport HBASE-11639 (Replicate the visibility of Cells as strings) to 0.98 (Ramkrishna S. Vasudevan)
HBASE-12622 user_permission should require global admin to display global and ns permissions
HBASE-12632 ThrottledInputStream/ExportSnapshot does not throttle
HBASE-12639 Backport HBASE-12565 Race condition in HRegion.batchMutate() causes partial data to be written when region closes