[1.x] Bulk keep-up and cancellation requests (port of #170)

[armiol]

This changeset addresses #190 by porting the changes from #170 to release as a part of 1.9.0.

[codecov[bot]]

Codecov Report

Merging #193 (4532cf3) into v1 (ace425e) will decrease coverage by 0.93%. The diff coverage is 3.84%.

Additional details and impacted files

```diff @@ Coverage Diff @@ ## v1 #193 +/- ## ============================================ - Coverage 63.81% 62.88% -0.94% Complexity 214 214 ============================================ Files 93 95 +2 Lines 2656 2697 +41 Branches 45 46 +1 ============================================ + Hits 1695 1696 +1 - Misses 950 990 +40 Partials 11 11 ```