HBASE-12539 HFileLinkCleaner logs are uselessly noisy
Update version to 0.98.9-SNAPSHOT
HBASE-8572 Enhance delete_snapshot.rb to call snapshot deletion API with regex (Ashish Singhi)
HBASE-12464 meta table region assignment stuck in the FAILED_OPEN state due to region server not fully ready to serve (Stephen Jiang)
HBASE-12539 Addendum fixes compilation against hadoop-1
HBASE-12549 Fix TestAssignmentManagerOnCluster#testAssignRacingWithSSH() flaky test
HBASE-11992 Backport HBASE-11367 (Pluggable replication endpoint) to 0.98 (Ramkrishna S. Vasudevan)
Update POM version to 0.98.9-HBASE-11992-SNAPSHOT