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NEW - Default newBalanceSpotter to OFF to avoid deadlock (Fixed in 65.02.08)
A new balanced splitter spotter was introduced in 5.2.0 (see https://track.hpccsystems.com/browse/HPCC-11400) to prevent a deadlocking problem caused by balance balanced splitters being pulled downstream in an unbalanced way. However, in some cases, particularly involving joins downstream, the newly generated graphs with balanced splitters may stall causing a deadlock. This affects all 5.2.x releases and will be fixed in HPCC Systems 6.0.0.
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