Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/113#issuecomment-37213133
The main reason is that we are investigating upgrading some of the major
dependencies prior to 1.0, after which we won't be able to upgrade for a while.
Some users have requested newer versions of Jetty that conflicts with the very
old version we ship.
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