[dev] dev/7.0 branch has been pulled

All - We are about 1 month out from our next release window of early February. As such I have pulled a dev/7.0 branch, from latest master c05f659a58466dd1a8dfe2a2ebbefeeb0b9c8ee0. If you have bugfixes that are in a PR, please take a moment and do an additional PR against dev/7.0. Additionally as you continue working on bug fixes please submit 2 pr's one for master and one for dev/7.0. Thanks! donald