Author: Patrick Wendell <patrick@databricks.com>

Closes #6328 from pwendell/spark-1.5-update and squashes the following commits:

2f42d02 [Patrick Wendell] A few more excludes
4bebcf0 [Patrick Wendell] Update to RC4
61aaf46 [Patrick Wendell] Using new release candidate
55f1610 [Patrick Wendell] Another exclude
04b4f04 [Patrick Wendell] More issues with transient 1.4 changes
36f549b [Patrick Wendell] [SPARK-7801] [BUILD] Updating versions to SPARK 1.5.0