Versions update for 1.2.18
Workaround JVM NPE on JMX bind failure
patch by Brandon Williams; reviewed by tjake for CASSANDRA-7254
Fix error when doing reverse queries with static columns

patch by graham sanderson; reviewed by slebresne for CASSANDRA-7490
Warn when SSL certs have expired.

Patch by brandonwilliams, reviewed by jasobrown for CASSANDRA-7528
Set stream ID on response for non-Exception Throwables

Patch by Tyler Hobbs; reviewed by Aleksey Yeschenko for CASSANDRA-7470
Merge branch 'cassandra-1.2' into cassandra-2.0

Conflicts:
	CHANGES.txt
	NEWS.txt
	build.xml
	debian/changelog
Make cql3 word count executable
Fix range merging when DES scores are zero
patch by thobbs; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-7535
(Windows) force range-based repair to non-sequential mode
patch by Josh McKenzie; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-7541
Fix row size miscalculation in LazilyCompactedRow

when RangeTombstone is involved.
patch by yukim; reviewed by jbellis for CASSANDRA-7543
Merge branch 'cassandra-1.2' into cassandra-2.0
update column_index_size_in_kb description
fix setlogginglevel help in nodetool
Fix word count

Patch by  Ala' Alkhaldi, reviewed by brandonwilliams for CASSANDRA-7200
Fix jvm version detection when JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS in environment

Patch by Gregory Ramsperger, reviewed by brandonwilliams for
CASSANDRA-7572
Fix ReversedType(DateType) mapping to native protocol

patch by Ben Hood; reviewed by Aleksey Yeschenko for CASSANDRA-7576
Ninja: add note about CQL2 removal to CQL2 docs
Follow up on CASSANDRA-6596

Add null check for sstableloader
Pig support for hadoop CqlInputFormat

Patch by Alex Liu, reviewed by brandonwilliams for CASSANDRA-6454
Always merge ranges owned by a single node in DES

Patch by Ala' Alkhaldi; review by Tyler Hobbs for CASSANDRA-6930