Removed bad assert in AccessGroupGarbageTracker
Added better error state capture to rangeserver-failover-basic tests
Fixed future/scanner/mutator close order problem causing ThriftBroker crash
issue 1226: Fixed race condition in LocalBroker::readdir()
issue 1227: Fixed readhead problem in IntervalScannerAsync client lib class
Set release number to 0.9.8.0
Added Cluster ID to commit log block header
Improved secondary index query support
Got rid of unused merge_diff tool
Changed default Hadoop distro to cdh4
issue 1080: Do localtime conversion for all datetime values passed through API
issue 1146: Change default Hypertable port numbers to be non-ephemeral
Removed source_machine variable and localhost role from Capfiles
Improved Master operation remove approval handling
issue 1188: Fixed race condition between Cluster ID generate and read
Share index update code between client lib and RangeServer
Added REBUILD INDICES command