This patch fixes [[SPARK-9180]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9180).
Users can now set the app name of spark-shell using `spark-shell --name "whatever"`.

Author: Kenichi Maehashi <webmaster@kenichimaehashi.com>

Closes #7512 from kmaehashi/fix-spark-shell-app-name and squashes the following commits:

e24991a [Kenichi Maehashi] use setIfMissing instead of setAppName
18aa4ad [Kenichi Maehashi] fix spark-shell to accept --name option

First step for [SPARK-7398](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7398).

tdas huitseeker

Author: Iulian Dragos <jaguarul@gmail.com>
Author: François Garillot <francois@garillot.net>

Closes #7471 from dragos/topic/streaming-bp/dynamic-rate and squashes the following commits:

8941cf9 [Iulian Dragos] Renames and other nitpicks.
162d9e5 [Iulian Dragos] Use Reflection for accessing truly private `executor` method and use the listener bus to know when receivers have registered (`onStart` is called before receivers have registered, leading to flaky behavior).
210f495 [Iulian Dragos] Revert "Added a few tests that measure the receiver’s rate."
0c51959 [Iulian Dragos] Added a few tests that measure the receiver’s rate.
261a051 [Iulian Dragos] - removed field to hold the current rate limit in rate limiter - made rate limit a Long and default to Long.MaxValue (consequence of the above) - removed custom `waitUntil` and replaced it by `eventually`
cd1397d [Iulian Dragos] Add a test for the propagation of a new rate limit from driver to receivers.
6369b30 [Iulian Dragos] Merge pull request #15 from huitseeker/SPARK-8975
d15de42 [François Garillot] [SPARK-8975][Streaming] Adds Ratelimiter unit tests w.r.t. spark.streaming.receiver.maxRate
4721c7d [François Garillot] [SPARK-8975][Streaming] Add a mechanism to send a new rate from the driver to the block generator

There are a few memory limits that people hit often and that we could
make higher, especially now that memory sizes have grown.

- spark.akka.frameSize: This defaults at 10 but is often hit for map
  output statuses in large shuffles. This memory is not fully allocated
  up-front, so we can just make this larger and still not affect jobs
  that never sent a status that large. We increase it to 128.

- spark.executor.memory: Defaults at 512m, which is really small. We
  increase it to 1g.

Author: Matei Zaharia <matei@databricks.com>

Closes #7586 from mateiz/configs and squashes the following commits:

ce0038a [Matei Zaharia] [SPARK-9244] Increase some memory defaults

Modify `LDA` to take asymmetric document-topic prior distributions and `OnlineLDAOptimizer` to use the asymmetric prior during variational inference.

This PR only generalizes `OnlineLDAOptimizer` and the associated `LocalLDAModel`; `EMLDAOptimizer` and `DistributedLDAModel` still only support symmetric `alpha` (checked during `EMLDAOptimizer.initialize`).

Author: Feynman Liang <fliang@databricks.com>

Closes #7575 from feynmanliang/SPARK-8536-LDA-asymmetric-priors and squashes the following commits:

af8fbb7 [Feynman Liang] Fix merge errors
ef5821d [Feynman Liang] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-8536-LDA-asymmetric-priors
58f1d7b [Feynman Liang] Fix from review feedback
a6dcf70 [Feynman Liang] Change docConcentration interface and move LDAOptimizer validation to initialize, add sad path tests
72038ff [Feynman Liang] Add tests referenced against gensim
d4284fa [Feynman Liang] Generalize OnlineLDA to asymmetric priors, no tests

Author: Yin Huai <yhuai@databricks.com>

Closes #7588 from yhuai/SPARK-4366-update1 and squashes the following commits:

25f5f36 [Yin Huai] Fix SqlParser Warning.

In-place updates, reduce number of transposes, and vectorize operations in OnlineLDA implementation.

Author: Feynman Liang <fliang@databricks.com>

Closes #7454 from feynmanliang/OnlineLDA-perf-improvements and squashes the following commits:

78b0f5a [Feynman Liang] Make in-place variables vals, fix BLAS error
7f62a55 [Feynman Liang] --amend
c62cb1e [Feynman Liang] Outer product for stats, revert Range slicing
aead650 [Feynman Liang] Range slice, in-place update, reduce transposes

This PR introduce unsafe version (using UnsafeRow) of HashJoin, HashOuterJoin and HashSemiJoin, including the broadcast one and shuffle one (except FullOuterJoin, which is better to be implemented using SortMergeJoin).

It use HashMap to store UnsafeRow right now, will change to use BytesToBytesMap for better performance (in another PR).

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #7480 from davies/unsafe_join and squashes the following commits:

6294b1e [Davies Liu] fix projection
10583f1 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into unsafe_join
dede020 [Davies Liu] fix test
84c9807 [Davies Liu] address comments
a05b4f6 [Davies Liu] support UnsafeRow in LeftSemiJoinBNL and BroadcastNestedLoopJoin
611d2ed [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into unsafe_join
9481ae8 [Davies Liu] return UnsafeRow after join()
ca2b40f [Davies Liu] revert unrelated change
68f5cd9 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into unsafe_join
0f4380d [Davies Liu] ada a comment
69e38f5 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into unsafe_join
1a40f02 [Davies Liu] refactor
ab1690f [Davies Liu] address comments
60371f2 [Davies Liu] use UnsafeRow in SemiJoin
a6c0b7d [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into unsafe_join
184b852 [Davies Liu] fix style
6acbb11 [Davies Liu] fix tests
95d0762 [Davies Liu] remove println
bea4a50 [Davies Liu] Unsafe HashJoin

JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9165

Author: Yijie Shen <henry.yijieshen@gmail.com>

Closes #7537 from yjshen/array_struct_codegen and squashes the following commits:

3a6dce6 [Yijie Shen] use infix notion in createArray test
5e90f0a [Yijie Shen] resolve comments: classOf
39cefb8 [Yijie Shen] codegen for createArray createStruct & createNamedStruct

Author: Wenchen Fan <cloud0fan@outlook.com>

Closes #7446 from cloud-fan/filter and squashes the following commits:

330021e [Wenchen Fan] add exists to tree node
2cab68c [Wenchen Fan] more enhance
949be07 [Wenchen Fan] push down part of predicate if possible
3912f84 [Wenchen Fan] address comments
8ce15ca [Wenchen Fan] fix bug
557158e [Wenchen Fan] Filter using non-deterministic expressions should not be pushed down

Target file(s) can be hosted on CDN nodes. HTTP/HTTPS redirection must be supported to download these files.

Author: Cheng Lian <lian@databricks.com>

Closes #7597 from liancheng/spark-9254 and squashes the following commits:

fd266ca [Cheng Lian] Uses `--fail' to make curl return non-zero value and remove garbage output when the download fails
a7cbfb3 [Cheng Lian] Supports HTTP/HTTPS redirection

This is the first PR for the aggregation improvement, which is tracked by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4366 (umbrella JIRA). This PR contains work for its subtasks, SPARK-3056, SPARK-3947, SPARK-4233, and SPARK-4367.

This PR introduces a new code path for evaluating aggregate functions. This code path is guarded by `spark.sql.useAggregate2` and by default the value of this flag is true.

This new code path contains:
* A new aggregate function interface (`AggregateFunction2`) and 7 built-int aggregate functions based on this new interface (`AVG`, `COUNT`, `FIRST`, `LAST`, `MAX`, `MIN`, `SUM`)
* A UDAF interface (`UserDefinedAggregateFunction`) based on the new code path and two example UDAFs (`MyDoubleAvg` and `MyDoubleSum`).
* A sort-based aggregate operator (`Aggregate2Sort`) for the new aggregate function interface .
* A sort-based aggregate operator (`FinalAndCompleteAggregate2Sort`) for distinct aggregations (for distinct aggregations the query plan will use `Aggregate2Sort` and `FinalAndCompleteAggregate2Sort` together).

With this change, `spark.sql.useAggregate2` is `true`, the flow of compiling an aggregation query is:
1. Our analyzer looks up functions and returns aggregate functions built based on the old aggregate function interface.
2. When our planner is compiling the physical plan, it tries try to convert all aggregate functions to the ones built based on the new interface. The planner will fallback to the old code path if any of the following two conditions is true:
* code-gen is disabled.
* there is any function that cannot be converted (right now, Hive UDAFs).
* the schema of grouping expressions contain any complex data type.
* There are multiple distinct columns.

Right now, the new code path handles a single distinct column in the query (you can have multiple aggregate functions using that distinct column). For a query having a aggregate function with DISTINCT and regular aggregate functions, the generated plan will do partial aggregations for those regular aggregate function.

Thanks chenghao-intel for his initial work on it.

Author: Yin Huai <yhuai@databricks.com>
Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #7458 from yhuai/UDAF and squashes the following commits:

7865f5e [Yin Huai] Put the catalyst expression in the comment of the generated code for it.
b04d6c8 [Yin Huai] Remove unnecessary change.
f1d5901 [Yin Huai] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into UDAF
35b0520 [Yin Huai] Use semanticEquals to replace grouping expressions in the output of the aggregate operator.
3b43b24 [Yin Huai] bug fix.
00eb298 [Yin Huai] Make it compile.
a3ca551 [Yin Huai] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into UDAF
e0afca3 [Yin Huai] Gracefully fallback to old aggregation code path.
8a8ac4a [Yin Huai] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into UDAF
88c7d4d [Yin Huai] Enable spark.sql.useAggregate2 by default for testing purpose.
dc96fd1 [Yin Huai] Many updates:
85c9c4b [Yin Huai] newline.
43de3de [Yin Huai] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into UDAF
c3614d7 [Yin Huai] Handle single distinct column.
68b8ee9 [Yin Huai] Support single distinct column set. WIP
3013579 [Yin Huai] Format.
d678aee [Yin Huai] Remove AggregateExpressionSuite.scala since our built-in aggregate functions will be based on AlgebraicAggregate and we need to have another way to test it.
e243ca6 [Yin Huai] Add aggregation iterators.
a101960 [Yin Huai] Change MyJavaUDAF to MyDoubleSum.
594cdf5 [Yin Huai] Change existing AggregateExpression to AggregateExpression1 and add an AggregateExpression as the common interface for both AggregateExpression1 and AggregateExpression2.
380880f [Yin Huai] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into UDAF
0a827b3 [Yin Huai] Add comments and doc. Move some classes to the right places.
a19fea6 [Yin Huai] Add UDAF interface.
262d4c4 [Yin Huai] Make it compile.
b2e358e [Yin Huai] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into UDAF
6edb5ac [Yin Huai] Format update.
70b169c [Yin Huai] Remove groupOrdering.
4721936 [Yin Huai] Add CheckAggregateFunction to extendedCheckRules.
d821a34 [Yin Huai] Cleanup.
32aea9c [Yin Huai] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into UDAF
5b46d41 [Yin Huai] Bug fix.
aff9534 [Yin Huai] Make Aggregate2Sort work with both algebraic AggregateFunctions and non-algebraic AggregateFunctions.
2857b55 [Yin Huai] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into UDAF
4435f20 [Yin Huai] Add ConvertAggregateFunction to HiveContext's analyzer.
1b490ed [Michael Armbrust] make hive test
8cfa6a9 [Michael Armbrust] add test
1b0bb3f [Yin Huai] Do not bind references in AlgebraicAggregate and use code gen for all places.
072209f [Yin Huai] Bug fix: Handle expressions in grouping columns that are not attribute references.
f7d9e54 [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into UDAF
39ee975 [Yin Huai] Code cleanup: Remove unnecesary AttributeReferences.
b7720ba [Yin Huai] Add an analysis rule to convert aggregate function to the new version.
5c00f3f [Michael Armbrust] First draft of codegen
6bbc6ba [Michael Armbrust] now with correct answers\!
f7996d0 [Michael Armbrust] Add AlgebraicAggregate
dded1c5 [Yin Huai] wip

Author: Andrew Or <andrew@databricks.com>

Closes #7576 from andrewor14/clean-up-json-relation and squashes the following commits:

ea80803 [Andrew Or] Clean up duplicate code

[SPARK-9121] [SPARKR] Get rid of the warnings about `no visible global function definition` in SparkR

[[SPARK-9121] Get rid of the warnings about `no visible global function definition` in SparkR - ASF JIRA](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9121)

## The Result of `dev/lint-r`
[The result of lint-r for SPARK-9121 at the revision:1ddd0f2f when I have sent a PR](https://gist.github.com/yu-iskw/6f55953425901725edf6)

Author: Yu ISHIKAWA <yuu.ishikawa@gmail.com>

Closes #7567 from yu-iskw/SPARK-9121 and squashes the following commits:

c8cfd63 [Yu ISHIKAWA] Fix the typo
b1f19ed [Yu ISHIKAWA] Add a validate statement for local SparkR
1a03987 [Yu ISHIKAWA] Load the `testthat` package in `dev/lint-r.R`, instead of using the full path of function.
3a5e0ab [Yu ISHIKAWA] [SPARK-9121][SparkR] Get rid of the warnings about `no visible global function definition` in SparkR

Also make format_string the canonical form, rather than printf.

Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>

Closes #7579 from rxin/format_strings and squashes the following commits:

53ee54f [Reynold Xin] Fixed unit tests.
52357e1 [Reynold Xin] Add format_string alias.
b40a42a [Reynold Xin] [SPARK-9154][SQL] Rename formatString to format_string.

Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9154

fixes bug of #7546

marmbrus I can't reopen the other PR, because I didn't closed it. Can you trigger Jenkins?

Author: Tarek Auel <tarek.auel@googlemail.com>

Closes #7571 from tarekauel/SPARK-9154 and squashes the following commits:

dcae272 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9154][SQL] build fix
1487602 [Tarek Auel] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into SPARK-9154
f512c5f [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9154][SQL] build fix
a943d3e [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9154] implicit input cast, added tests for null, support for null primitives
10b4de8 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9154][SQL] codegen removed fallback trait
cd8322b [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9154][SQL] codegen string format
086caba [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9154][SQL] codegen string format

IsolatedClientLoader.isSharedClass includes all of com.google.\*, presumably
for Guava, protobuf, and/or other shared Google libraries, but needs to
count com.google.cloud.\* as "hive classes" when determining which ClassLoader
to use. Otherwise, things like HiveContext.parquetFile will throw a
ClassCastException when fs.defaultFS is set to a Google Cloud Storage (gs://)
path. On StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31478955

EDIT: Adding yhuai who worked on the relevant classloading isolation pieces.

Author: Dennis Huo <dhuo@google.com>

Closes #7549 from dennishuo/dhuo-fix-hivecontext-gcs and squashes the following commits:

1f8db07 [Dennis Huo] Fix HiveContext classloading for GCS connector.

This way, the sources package contains only public facing interfaces.

Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>

Closes #7565 from rxin/move-ds and squashes the following commits:

7661aff [Reynold Xin] Mima
9d5196a [Reynold Xin] Rearranged imports.
3dd7174 [Reynold Xin] [SPARK-8906][SQL] Move all internal data source classes into execution.datasources.

This patch fixes a managed memory leak in GeneratedAggregate.  The leak occurs when the unsafe aggregation path is used to perform grouped aggregation on an empty input; in this case, GeneratedAggregate allocates an UnsafeFixedWidthAggregationMap that is never cleaned up because `next()` is never called on the aggregate result iterator.

This patch fixes this by short-circuiting on empty inputs.

This patch is an updated version of #6810.

Closes #6810.

Author: navis.ryu <navis@apache.org>
Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@databricks.com>

Closes #7560 from JoshRosen/SPARK-8357 and squashes the following commits:

3486ce4 [Josh Rosen] Some minor cleanup
c649310 [Josh Rosen] Revert SparkPlan change:
3c7db0f [Josh Rosen] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into SPARK-8357
adc8239 [Josh Rosen] Back out Projection changes.
c5419b3 [navis.ryu] addressed comments
143e1ef [navis.ryu] fixed format & added test for CCE case
735972f [navis.ryu] used new conf apis
1a02a55 [navis.ryu] Rolled-back test-conf cleanup & fixed possible CCE & added more tests
51178e8 [navis.ryu] addressed comments
4d326b9 [navis.ryu] fixed test fails
15c5afc [navis.ryu] added a test as suggested by JoshRosen
d396589 [navis.ryu] added comments
1b07556 [navis.ryu] [SPARK-8357] [SQL] Memory leakage on unsafe aggregation path with empty input

This reverts commit 7f072c3d.

Revert #7546

Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #7570 from marmbrus/revert9154 and squashes the following commits:

ed2c32a [Michael Armbrust] Revert "[SPARK-9154] [SQL] codegen StringFormat"

Add support for saving and loading LDA both the local and distributed versions.

Author: MechCoder <manojkumarsivaraj334@gmail.com>

Closes #6948 from MechCoder/lda_save_load and squashes the following commits:

49bcdce [MechCoder] minor style fixes
cc14054 [MechCoder] minor
4587d1d [MechCoder] Minor changes
c753122 [MechCoder] Load and save the model in private methods
2782326 [MechCoder] [SPARK-5989] Model save/load for LDA

Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9154

Author: Tarek Auel <tarek.auel@googlemail.com>

Closes #7546 from tarekauel/SPARK-9154 and squashes the following commits:

a943d3e [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9154] implicit input cast, added tests for null, support for null primitives
10b4de8 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9154][SQL] codegen removed fallback trait
cd8322b [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9154][SQL] codegen string format
086caba [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9154][SQL] codegen string format

Make `DiskMapIterator.cleanup` idempotent and register a TaskCompletionListener to make sure call `cleanup`.

Author: zsxwing <zsxwing@gmail.com>

Closes #7529 from zsxwing/SPARK-5423 and squashes the following commits:

3e3c413 [zsxwing] Remove TODO
9556c78 [zsxwing] Fix NullPointerException for tests
3d574d9 [zsxwing] Register a TaskCompletionListener to make sure release all resources

This PR adds pagination for the task table to solve the scalability issue of the stage page. Here is the initial screenshot:
<img width="1347" alt="pagination" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1000778/8679669/9e63863c-2a8e-11e5-94e4-994febcd6717.png">
The task table only shows 100 tasks. There is a page navigation above the table. Users can click the page navigation or type the page number to jump to another page. The table can be sorted by clicking the headers. However, unlike previous implementation, the sorting work is done in the server now. So clicking a table column to sort needs to refresh the web page.

Author: zsxwing <zsxwing@gmail.com>

Closes #7399 from zsxwing/task-table-pagination and squashes the following commits:

144f513 [zsxwing] Display the page navigation when the page number is out of range
a3eee22 [zsxwing] Add extra space for the error message
54c5b84 [zsxwing] Reset page to 1 if the user changes the page size
c2f7f39 [zsxwing] Add a text field to let users fill the page size
bad52eb [zsxwing] Display user-friendly error messages
410586b [zsxwing] Scroll down to the tasks table if the url contains any sort column
a0746d1 [zsxwing] Use expand-dag-viz-arrow-job and expand-dag-viz-arrow-stage instead of expand-dag-viz-arrow-true and expand-dag-viz-arrow-false
b123f67 [zsxwing] Use localStorage to remember the user's actions and replay them when loading the page
894a342 [zsxwing] Show the link cursor when hovering for headers and page links and other minor fix
4d4fecf [zsxwing] Address Carson's comments
d9285f0 [zsxwing] Add comments and fix the style
74285fa [zsxwing] Merge branch 'master' into task-table-pagination
db6c859 [zsxwing] Task table pagination for the Stage page

Author: Jacek Lewandowski <lewandowski.jacek@gmail.com>

Closes #5805 from jacek-lewandowski/SPARK-7171 and squashes the following commits:

ed20bda [Jacek Lewandowski] SPARK-7171: Added a method to retrieve metrics sources in TaskContext

JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9128

Currently, in `ClosureCleaner`, the outerclasses and objects are retrieved using two different methods. However, the logic of the two methods is the same, and we can get both the outerclasses and objects with only one method calling.

Author: Liang-Chi Hsieh <viirya@appier.com>

Closes #7459 from viirya/remove_extra_closurecleaner and squashes the following commits:

7c9858d [Liang-Chi Hsieh] For comments.
a096941 [Liang-Chi Hsieh] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into remove_extra_closurecleaner
2ec5ce1 [Liang-Chi Hsieh] Remove unnecessary methods.
4df5a51 [Liang-Chi Hsieh] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into remove_extra_closurecleaner
dc110d1 [Liang-Chi Hsieh] Add method to get outerclasses and objects at the same time.

This PR implements a JSON serializer and deserializer in the JSONProtocol to handle the (de)serialization of SparkListenerExecutorMetricsUpdate events. It also includes a unit test in the JSONProtocolSuite file. This was implemented to satisfy the improvement request in the JIRA  issue SPARK-9036.

Author: Ben <benjaminpiering@gmail.com>

Closes #7555 from NamelessAnalyst/master and squashes the following commits:

fb4e3cc [Ben] Update JSON Protocol and tests
aa69517 [Ben] Update JSON Protocol and tests --Corrected Stage Attempt to Stage Attempt ID
33e5774 [Ben] Update JSON Protocol Tests
3f237e7 [Ben] Update JSON Protocol Tests
84ca798 [Ben] Update JSON Protocol Tests
cde57a0 [Ben] Update JSON Protocol Tests
8049600 [Ben] Update JSON Protocol Tests
c5bc061 [Ben] Update JSON Protocol Tests
6f25785 [Ben] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master'
df2a609 [Ben] Update JSON Protocol
dcda80b [Ben] Update JSON Protocol

Now, when some executors are killed by dynamic-allocation, it leads to some mis-assignment onto lost executors sometimes. Such kind of mis-assignment causes task failure(s) or even job failure if it repeats that errors for 4 times.

The root cause is that ***killExecutors*** doesn't remove those executors under killing ASAP. It depends on the ***OnDisassociated*** event to refresh the active working list later. The delay time really depends on your cluster status (from several milliseconds to sub-minute). When new tasks to be scheduled during that period of time, it will be assigned to those "active" but "under killing" executors. Then the tasks will be failed due to "executor lost". The better way is to exclude those executors under killing in the makeOffers(). Then all those tasks won't be allocated onto those executors "to be lost" any more.

Author: Grace <jie.huang@intel.com>

Closes #7528 from GraceH/AssignToLostExecutor and squashes the following commits:

ecc1da6 [Grace] scala style fix
6e2ed96 [Grace] Re-word makeOffers by more readable lines
b5546ce [Grace] Add comments about the fix
30a9ad0 [Grace] Avoid assigning tasks to lost executors

Created since tags for methods in mllib.classification

Author: petz2000 <petz2000@gmail.com>

Closes #7371 from petz2000/add_since_mllib.classification and squashes the following commits:

39fe291 [petz2000] Removed whitespace in block comment
c9b1e03 [petz2000] Removed @since tags again from protected and private methods
cd759b6 [petz2000] Added @since tags to methods

JIRA:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9081
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9168

This PR target at two modifications:
1.  Change `isNaN` to return `false` on `null` input
2.  Make `dropna` and `fillna` to fill/drop NaN values as well
3.  Implement `nanvl`

Author: Yijie Shen <henry.yijieshen@gmail.com>

Closes #7523 from yjshen/fillna_dropna and squashes the following commits:

f0a51db [Yijie Shen] make coalesce untouched and implement nanvl
1d3e35f [Yijie Shen] make Coalesce aware of NaN in order to support fillna
2760cbc [Yijie Shen] change isNaN(null) to false as well as implement dropna

These commits address a few minor issues in the Scala cross-version support in the build:

  1. Correct two missing `${scala.binary.version}` pom file substitutions.
  2. Don't update `scala.binary.version` in parent POM. This property is set through profiles.
  3. Update the source of the generated scaladocs in `docs/_plugins/copy_api_dirs.rb`.
  4. Factor common code out of `dev/change-version-to-*.sh` and add some validation. We also test `sed` to see if it's GNU sed and try `gsed` as an alternative if not. This prevents the script from running with a non-GNU sed.

This is my original work and I license this work to the Spark project under the Apache License.

Author: Michael Allman <michael@videoamp.com>

Closes #6832 from mallman/scala-versions and squashes the following commits:

cde2f17 [Michael Allman] Delete dev/change-version-to-*.sh, replacing them with single dev/change-scala-version.sh script that takes a version as argument
02296f2 [Michael Allman] Make the scala version change scripts cross-platform by restricting ourselves to POSIX sed syntax instead of looking for GNU sed
ad9b40a [Michael Allman] Factor change-scala-version.sh out of change-version-to-*.sh, adding command line argument validation and testing for GNU sed
bdd20bf [Michael Allman] Update source of scaladocs when changing Scala version
475088e [Michael Allman] Replace jackson-module-scala_2.10 with jackson-module-scala_${scala.binary.version}

The shuffle code has gotten increasingly difficult to read as it has evolved, and many classes
have evolved significantly since they were originally created. The BlockStoreShuffleFetcher class
now serves little purpose other than to make the code more difficult to read; this commit moves its
functionality into the ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator class.

cc massie JoshRosen (Josh, this PR also removes the Try you pointed out as being confusing / not necessarily useful in a previous comment).  Matt, would be helpful to know whether this will interfere in any negative ways with your new shuffle PR (I took a look and it seems like this should still cleanly integrate with your parquet work, but want to double check).

Author: Kay Ousterhout <kayousterhout@gmail.com>

Closes #7268 from kayousterhout/SPARK-8875 and squashes the following commits:

2b24a97 [Kay Ousterhout] Fixed DAGSchedulerSuite compile error
98a1831 [Kay Ousterhout] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into SPARK-8875
90f0e89 [Kay Ousterhout] Fixed broken test
14bfcbb [Kay Ousterhout] Last style fix
bc69d2b [Kay Ousterhout] Style improvements based on Josh's code review
ad3c8d1 [Kay Ousterhout] Better documentation for MapOutputTracker methods
0bc0e59 [Kay Ousterhout] [SPARK-8875] Remove BlockStoreShuffleFetcher class

JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9173

Author: Yijie Shen <henry.yijieshen@gmail.com>

Closes #7540 from yjshen/union_pushdown and squashes the following commits:

278510a [Yijie Shen] rename UnionPushDown to SetOperationPushDown
91741c1 [Yijie Shen] Add UnionPushDown support for intersect and except

Pull Request for: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8230

Primary issue resolved is to implement array/map size for Spark SQL. Code is ready for review by a committer. Chen Hao is on the JIRA ticket, but I don't know his username on github, rxin is also on JIRA ticket.

Things to review:
1. Where to put added functions namespace wise, they seem to be part of a few operations on collections which includes `sort_array` and `array_contains`. Hence the name given `collectionOperations.scala` and `_collection_functions` in python.
2. In Python code, should it be in a `1.5.0` function array or in a collections array?
3. Are there any missing methods on the `Size` case class? Looks like many of these functions have generated Java code, is that also needed in this case?
4. Something else?

Author: Pedro Rodriguez <ski.rodriguez@gmail.com>
Author: Pedro Rodriguez <prodriguez@trulia.com>

Closes #7462 from EntilZha/SPARK-8230 and squashes the following commits:

9a442ae [Pedro Rodriguez] fixed functions and sorted __all__
9aea3bb [Pedro Rodriguez] removed imports from python docs
15d4bf1 [Pedro Rodriguez] Added null test case and changed to nullSafeCodeGen
d88247c [Pedro Rodriguez] removed python code
bd5f0e4 [Pedro Rodriguez] removed duplicate function from rebase/merge
59931b4 [Pedro Rodriguez] fixed compile bug instroduced when merging
c187175 [Pedro Rodriguez] updated code to add size to __all__ directly and removed redundent pretty print
130839f [Pedro Rodriguez] fixed failing test
aa9bade [Pedro Rodriguez] fix style
e093473 [Pedro Rodriguez] updated python code with docs, switched classes/traits implemented, added (failing) expression tests
0449377 [Pedro Rodriguez] refactored code to use better abstract classes/traits and implementations
9a1a2ff [Pedro Rodriguez] added unit tests for map size
2bfbcb6 [Pedro Rodriguez] added unit test for size
20df2b4 [Pedro Rodriguez] Finished working version of size function and added it to python
b503e75 [Pedro Rodriguez] First attempt at implementing size for maps and arrays
99a6a5c [Pedro Rodriguez] fixed failing test
cac75ac [Pedro Rodriguez] fix style
933d843 [Pedro Rodriguez] updated python code with docs, switched classes/traits implemented, added (failing) expression tests
42bb7d4 [Pedro Rodriguez] refactored code to use better abstract classes/traits and implementations
f9c3b8a [Pedro Rodriguez] added unit tests for map size
2515d9f [Pedro Rodriguez] added documentation
0e60541 [Pedro Rodriguez] added unit test for size
acf9853 [Pedro Rodriguez] Finished working version of size function and added it to python
84a5d38 [Pedro Rodriguez] First attempt at implementing size for maps and arrays

Add expressions `regex_extract` & `regex_replace`

Author: Cheng Hao <hao.cheng@intel.com>

Closes #7468 from chenghao-intel/regexp and squashes the following commits:

e5ea476 [Cheng Hao] minor update for documentation
ef96fd6 [Cheng Hao] update the code gen
72cf28f [Cheng Hao] Add more log for compilation error
4e11381 [Cheng Hao] Add regexp_replace / regexp_extract support

This PR adds DataFrame reader/writer shortcut methods for ORC in both Scala and Python.

Author: Cheng Lian <lian@databricks.com>

Closes #7444 from liancheng/spark-9100 and squashes the following commits:

284d043 [Cheng Lian] Fixes PySpark test cases and addresses PR comments
e0b09fb [Cheng Lian] Adds DataFrame reader/writer shortcut methods for ORC

Jira https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9161

Author: Tarek Auel <tarek.auel@googlemail.com>

Closes #7545 from tarekauel/SPARK-9161 and squashes the following commits:

21425c8 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9161][SQL] codegen FormatNumber

Fixes feature introduced in #7508 to use the default value if nothing is specified in command line

cc liancheng rxin pwendell

Author: Shivaram Venkataraman <shivaram@cs.berkeley.edu>

Closes #7558 from shivaram/merge-script-fix and squashes the following commits:

7092141 [Shivaram Venkataraman] Use default primary author if unspecified

This patch addresses code review feedback from #7456.

Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@databricks.com>

Closes #7551 from JoshRosen/unsafe-exchange-followup and squashes the following commits:

76dbdf8 [Josh Rosen] Add comments + more methods to UnsafeRowSerializer
3d7a1f2 [Josh Rosen] Add writeToStream() method to UnsafeRow

It can be ambiguous whether that is a string literal or a column name.

cc marmbrus

Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>

Closes #7556 from rxin/str-exprs and squashes the following commits:

92afa83 [Reynold Xin] [SPARK-9208][SQL] Remove variant of DataFrame string functions that accept column names.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9157

Author: Tarek Auel <tarek.auel@googlemail.com>

Closes #7534 from tarekauel/SPARK-9157 and squashes the following commits:

e65e3e9 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9157] indent fix
44e89f8 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9157] use EMPTY_UTF8
37d54c4 [Tarek Auel] Merge branch 'master' into SPARK-9157
60732ea [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9157] created substringSQL in UTF8String
18c3576 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9157][SQL] remove slice pos
1a2e611 [Tarek Auel] [SPARK-9157][SQL] codegen substring