* bump scala to 2.12 which requires java 8 and also newer flink and akka
* put scala version in artifactId
* fix appveyor
* fix for scaladoc issue that looks like https://github.com/scala/bug/issues/10509
* fix ci_build
* update versions in generate_pom.py
* fix generate_pom.py
* apache does not have a download for spark 2.4.3 distro using scala 2.12 yet, so for now i use a tgz i put on s3
* Upload spark-2.4.3-bin-scala2.12-hadoop2.7.tgz to our own S3
* Update Dockerfile.jvm_cross
* Update Dockerfile.jvm_cross
* Automatically set maximize_evaluation_metrics if not explicitly given.
* When custom_eval is set, require maximize_evaluation_metrics.
* Update documents on early stop in XGBoost4J-Spark.
* Fix code error.
* fix the nan and non-zero missing value handling
* fix nan handling part
* add missing value
* Update MissingValueHandlingSuite.scala
* Update MissingValueHandlingSuite.scala
* stylistic fix
* [jvm-packages][hot-fix] fix column mismatch caused by zip actions at XGBooostModel.transformInternal
* apply minibatch in prediction
* an iterator-compatible minibatch prediction
* regressor impl
* continuous working on mini-batch prediction of xgboost4j-spark
* Update Booster.java
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* wrap iterators
* enable copartition training and validationset
* add parameters
* converge code path and have init unit test
* enable multi evals for ranking
* unit test and doc
* update example
* fix early stopping
* address the offline comments
* udpate doc
* test eval metrics
* fix compilation issue
* fix example
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* update version
* 0.82
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* wrap iterators
* remove unused code
* refactor
* fix typo
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* temp
* add method for classifier and regressor
* update tutorial
* address the comments
* update
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* sparjJobThread
* update
* fix issue when spark job execution thread cannot return before we execute first()
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* remove copy paste error
* added test, commented out right now
* reinstated test
* added fix for checking encryption settings
* fix by using RDD conf
* fix compilation
* renamed conf
* use SparkSession if available
* fix message
* nop
* code review fixes
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* interrupted exception is not rethrown
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* fix update checkpoint func