[dev] dev/7.0 branch has been pulled

[Donald Sharp]

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