Changes for HDFS-1623 branch. This change list will be merged into the trunk CHANGES.txt when the HDFS-1623 branch is merged. ------------------------------ HADOOP-7455. HA: Introduce HA Service Protocol Interface. (suresh) HADOOP-7774. HA: Administrative CLI to control HA daemons. (todd) HADOOP-7896. HA: if both NNs are in Standby mode, client needs to try failing back and forth several times with sleeps. (atm) HADOOP-7922. Improve some logging for client IPC failovers and StandbyExceptions (todd) HADOOP-7921. StandbyException should extend IOException (todd) HADOOP-7928. HA: Client failover policy is incorrectly trying to fail over all IOExceptions (atm) HADOOP-7925. Add interface and update CLI to query current state to HAServiceProtocol (eli via todd) HADOOP-7932. Make client connection retries on socket time outs configurable. (Uma Maheswara Rao G via todd) HADOOP-7924. FailoverController for client-based configuration (eli) HADOOP-7961. Move HA fencing to common. (eli) HADOOP-7970. HAServiceProtocol methods must throw IOException. (Hari Mankude via suresh). HADOOP-7992. Add ZKClient library to facilitate leader election. (Bikas Saha via suresh). HADOOP-7983. HA: failover should be able to pass args to fencers. (eli) HADOOP-7938. HA: the FailoverController should optionally fence the active during failover. (eli) HADOOP-7991. HA: the FailoverController should check the standby is ready before failing over. (eli) HADOOP-8038. Add 'ipc.client.connect.max.retries.on.timeouts' entry in core-default.xml file. (Uma Maheswara Rao G via atm) HADOOP-8041. Log a warning when a failover is first attempted (todd) HADOOP-8068. void methods can swallow exceptions when going through failover path (todd)