HBASE-12472 Improve debuggability of IntegrationTestBulkLoad
HBASE-12337 Import tool fails with NullPointerException if clusterIds is not initialized
HBASE-12449 Use the max timestamp of current or old cell's timestamp in HRegion.append()
HBASE-12411 Optionally enable p-reads and private readers for compactions.
HBASE-12517 Ensure HConstants members are final.

Signed-off-by: stack <stack@apache.org>

Conflicts:
	hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HConstants.java

Conflicts:
	hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HConstants.java
HBASE-12513 Graceful stop script does not restore the balancer state

Signed-off-by: stack <stack@apache.org>
HBASE-12496 A blockedRequestsCount metric (Yi Deng)
HBASE-12277 Refactor bulkLoad methods in AccessController to its own interface (Madhan Neethiraj)
HBASE-12529 Use ThreadLocalRandom for RandomQueueBalancer
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