[bretthoerner]

This changed a lot recently in master. I believe they wait until the new node has all of the data until sending it requests. I'm sure it will be part of 1.0.

[pharkmillups]

This (and a few other less-than-elegant operations) were all handled as part of this:

https://github.com/basho/riak_core/commit/c4b80137998359f0db...