diff --git a/build/fixchanges.sh b/build/fixchanges.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+#
+# fixchanges will take a file as input and look for text matching
+# the pattern [THRIFT-nnnn] (the number of digits is not important)
+# which is not a markdown link, and change it to be a markdown link.
+# The tool writes to stdout so you can redirect it to a temporary
+# file and then compare against the original file before replacing
+# it.
+#
+# This tool was developed after the 0.12.0 release to assist with
+# generation of CHANGES.md content.
+#
+
+while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
+    if [[ "$line" =~ ^(.*)\[(THRIFT-[[:digit:]]+)\][^\(](.*)$ ]]; then
+        echo "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}[${BASH_REMATCH[2]}](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/${BASH_REMATCH[2]}) ${BASH_REMATCH[3]}"
+    else
+        echo "$line"
+    fi
+done < "$1"
diff --git a/build/veralign.sh b/build/veralign.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+# 
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+#
+# The veralign script sets the appropriate versions in all of
+# the package configuration files for all of the supported
+# languages.  It is used to prepare a release or move master
+# forward to the next anticipated version.
+#
+# USAGE
+# -----------------------------------------------------------
+# usage: veralign.sh <oldVersion> <newVersion>
+#
+# EXAMPLE
+# -----------------------------------------------------------
+# $ ./veralign.sh 0.12.0 1.0.0
+# $ ./veralign.sh 1.0.0 1.1.0
+#
+# IMPORTANT USAGE NOTE
+# -----------------------------------------------------------
+# Define the environment variable DRYRUN to have the script
+# print out all matches to the oldVersion hilighted so that
+# you can verify it will change the right things.
+#
+
+declare -A FILES
+
+# These files require a manual touch:
+FILES[CHANGES.md]=manual
+FILES[debian/changelog]=manual
+FILES[doap.rdf]=manual
+
+# These files can be updated automatically:
+FILES[ApacheThrift.nuspec]=simpleReplace
+FILES[Thrift-swift3.podspec]=simpleReplace
+FILES[Thrift.podspec]=simpleReplace
+FILES[appveyor.yml]=simpleReplace
+FILES[bower.json]=jsonReplace
+FILES[build/cmake/DefineCMakeDefaults.cmake]=simpleReplace
+FILES[configure.ac]=configureReplace
+FILES[contrib/thrift.spec]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/cocoa/src/Thrift.h]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/csharp/ThriftMSBuildTask/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/csharp/ThriftMSBuildTask/ThriftMSBuildTask.csproj]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/csharp/src/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/csharp/src/Thrift.csproj]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/csharp/test/Multiplex/Client/MultiplexClient.csproj]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/csharp/test/Multiplex/Client/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/csharp/test/Multiplex/Server/MultiplexServer.csproj]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/csharp/test/Multiplex/Server/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/csharp/test/ThriftMVCTest/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/d/src/thrift/base.d]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/dart/pubspec.yaml]=pubspecReplace
+FILES[lib/delphi/src/Thrift.pas]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/erl/src/thrift.app.src]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/haxe/haxelib.json]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/hs/thrift.cabal]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/java/gradle.properties]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/js/package.json]=jsonReplace
+FILES[lib/js/src/thrift.js]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/lua/Thrift.lua]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/netcore/Thrift/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/netcore/Thrift/Transports/Client/THttpClientTransport.cs]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/ocaml/_oasis]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/perl/lib/Thrift.pm]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/py/setup.py]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/rb/thrift.gemspec]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/rs/Cargo.toml]=simpleReplace
+FILES[lib/st/package.xml]=simpleReplace
+FILES[package.json]=jsonReplace
+FILES[sonar-project.properties]=simpleReplace
+FILES[test/csharp/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs]=simpleReplace
+FILES[test/csharp/ThriftTest.csproj]=simpleReplace
+FILES[test/dart/test_client/pubspec.yaml]=pubspecReplace
+FILES[test/erl/src/thrift_test.app.src]=simpleReplace
+FILES[tutorial/csharp/CsharpClient/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs]=simpleReplace
+FILES[tutorial/csharp/CsharpServer/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs]=simpleReplace
+FILES[tutorial/dart/client/pubspec.yaml]=pubspecReplace
+FILES[tutorial/dart/console_client/pubspec.yaml]=pubspecReplace
+FILES[tutorial/dart/server/pubspec.yaml]=pubspecReplace
+FILES[tutorial/delphi/DelphiClient/DelphiClient.dproj]=simpleReplace
+FILES[tutorial/delphi/DelphiServer/DelphiServer.dproj]=simpleReplace
+FILES[tutorial/hs/ThriftTutorial.cabal]=simpleReplace
+FILES[tutorial/ocaml/_oasis]=simpleReplace
+
+if [ ! -f "CHANGES" ]; then
+    >&2 echo "error: run veralign.sh while in the thrift root directory"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
+    >&2 echo "usage: veralign.sh <oldVersion> <newVersion>"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+jq --version 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    >&2 echo "error: the 'jq' package is not installed"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+#
+# validateVersion: check that a version matches the major.minor.patch
+#   format which is the lowest common denominator supported by all
+#   project systems.
+# \param $1 the version
+# \returns 0 if the version is compliant
+#
+function validateVersion
+{
+    local result
+    local valid
+    valid=$(echo "$1" | sed '/^[[:digit:]]\+\.[[:digit:]]\+\.[[:digit:]]\+$/!{q22}')
+    result=$?
+    if [ $result -eq 22 ]; then
+        >&2 echo "error: version '$1' does not conform to the required major.minor.patch format"
+        return ${result}
+    fi
+}
+
+OLDVERSION=$1
+NEWVERSION=$2
+validateVersion "${OLDVERSION}" || exit $?
+validateVersion "${NEWVERSION}" || exit $?
+
+#
+# escapeVersion: escape the version for use as a sed search
+# \param $1 the version to escape
+# \output the escaped string
+# \returns 0
+# \example VERSEARCH=$(escapeVersion "[1.0.0]"); echo $VERSEARCH; => "\[1\.0\.0\]"
+#
+function escapeVersion
+{
+    echo "$(echo $1 | sed 's/\./\\./g' | sed 's/\[/\\\[/g' | sed 's/\]/\\\]/g')"
+}
+
+# Set up verbose hilighting if running interactive
+if [ "$(tput colors)" -ne 0 ]; then
+    reverse=$(tput rev)
+    red=$(tput setaf 1)
+    green=$(tput setaf 2)
+    yellow=$(tput setaf 3)
+    normal=$(tput sgr0)
+fi
+
+declare -A MANUAL
+
+#
+# manual: note that update of said file is manual
+# \param $1 filename to do replacements on
+# \returns 0
+#
+function manual
+{
+    MANUAL["$1"]=""
+    return 0
+}
+
+#
+# configureReplace: replace the AC_INIT field in configure.ac
+# \param $1 filename to do replacements on
+# \returns 0 on success
+#
+
+function configureReplace
+{
+    replace "$1" "[thrift], [${OLDVERSION}]" "[thrift], [${NEWVERSION}]"
+}
+
+#
+# jsonReplace: replace a specific version field in a JSON file
+#   must be a top level "version" field in the json structure
+# \param $1 filename to do replacements on
+# \returns 0 on success
+#
+
+function jsonReplace
+{
+    local result
+    local output
+    if [ ! -z "$DRYRUN" ]; then
+        output=$(jq -e ".version" "$1")
+    else
+        output=$(jq -e ".version = \"${NEWVERSION}\"" "$1" > tmp.$$.json && mv tmp.$$.json "$1")
+    fi
+    result=$?
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        printf "%-60s | %5d | ${red}ERROR${normal}: version tag not found" "$1" "$count"
+        echo
+        return 1
+    elif [ ! -z "$DRYRUN" ]; then
+        output=${output%\"}
+        output=${output#\"}
+        printf "%-60s | %5d | MATCHES:   version: \"${reverse}${green}${output}${normal}\"" "$1" 1
+        echo
+        return 0
+    fi
+    printf "%-60s | %5d | ${green}OK${normal}" "$1" 1
+    echo
+    return 0
+}
+
+#
+# pubspecReplace: replace a specific version field in a YAML file
+#   must be a top level "version" field in the yaml structure
+#   did not find a package that preserves comments so this is
+#   somewhat brain-dead, but it gets the job done
+# \param $1 filename to do replacements on
+# \returns 0 on success
+#
+
+function pubspecReplace
+{
+    replace "$1" "version: ${OLDVERSION}" "version: ${NEWVERSION}"
+}
+
+#
+# replace: replace occurrences of one string with another
+#     the file specified must contain the old string at least once
+#     in order to be successful.
+# \param $1 filename to do replacements on
+# \param $2 the "old" string to be replaced
+# \param $3 the "new" striing to replace it with
+# \returns 0 on success
+#
+function replace
+{
+    local result
+    local output
+    local oldString="$2"
+    local newString="$3"
+    local oldRegex=$(escapeVersion "${oldString}")
+    local count=$(grep -Ec "${oldRegex}" "$1")
+    local verbose
+    if [ $count -eq 0 ]; then
+        printf "%-60s | %5d | ${red}NOT FOUND${normal}: ${oldString}" "$1" 0
+        echo
+        return 1
+    elif [ ! -z "$DRYRUN" ]; then
+        printf "%-60s | %5d | MATCHES:" "$1" "$count"
+        echo
+        while read -r line; do
+            echo " > $(echo "$line" | sed "s/${oldRegex}/${reverse}${green}${oldString}${normal}/g")"
+        done < <(grep -E "${oldRegex}" "$1")
+        return 0
+    fi
+    output=$(sed -i "s/${oldRegex}/${newString}/g" "$1")
+    result=$?
+    if [ $result -ne 0 ]; then
+        printf "%-60s | %5d | ${red}ERROR${normal}: %s" "$1" "$count" "$output"
+        echo
+        return 1
+    fi
+    printf "%-60s | %5d | ${green}OK${normal}" "$1" "$count"
+    echo
+    return 0
+}
+
+#
+# simpleReplace: replace occurrences of ${OLDVERSION} with ${NEWVERSION}
+#     the file specified must contain OLDVERSION at least once
+#     in order to be successful.
+# \param $1 filename to do replacements on
+# \param $2 the "old" string to be replaced
+# \param $3 the "new" striing to replace it with
+# \returns 0 on success
+#
+function simpleReplace
+{
+    replace "$1" "${OLDVERSION}" "${NEWVERSION}"
+}
+
+echo ""
+echo "Apache Thrift Version Alignment Tool"
+echo "------------------------------------"
+echo ""
+echo "Previous Version: ${OLDVERSION}"
+echo "     New Version: ${NEWVERSION}"
+echo ""
+echo "-------------------------------------------------------------+-------+----------------------"
+echo "Filename                                                     | Count | Status               "
+echo "-------------------------------------------------------------+-------+----------------------"
+
+for file in $(echo "${!FILES[@]}" | sort); do
+    ${FILES[$file]} $file || exit $?
+done
+
+echo
+echo "Files that must be modified manually:"
+echo
+for manu in $(echo "${!MANUAL[@]}" | sort); do
+    echo " > ${yellow}${manu}${normal}"
+done
+
+exit 0